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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great garage rock from Cowtown, July 17, 2007
This review is from: Vol. 1-Fort Worth Teen Scene (Audio CD)
The first volume of the Fort Worth Teen Scene series is stuffed with fantastic 60s garage rockers from one of Texas' swinginest towns. The best of these tracks could sit quite comfortably on any of the Back From the Grave or Pebbles discs: The Jades' sawggering, funky "Little Girl" (a cover of a Van Morrison tune) combines a nasty guitar riff with some throat-slaughtering vocals, while the Rising Suns' "I'm Blue" is a mind-meltingly loud garage-punk screamer, complete with a pulverizing three-chord attack. The Bards' "Thanks A Lot Baby" is a wonderfully moody teen-weep ballad, and the Nomads' "Empty Heart" is a superbly greased-up cover of the early Rolling Stones number. There's also the Mistakes' broken-down, ultra-inarticulate "Time is All," and the Cynics absolutely unhinged rendition of "Train Kept A-Rollin'," with lyrics that sound like they were made up on the spot. The Elite's classic two-parter, "One Potato"/"Two Potato," is an unreasonably catchy R&B-drenched dance-garage-punk pounder, and the Rising Suns' version of "Little Latin Lupe Lu" drifts into similar regions of catchiness. The Wyld's "Fly By Nighter" is loud and mean and insane, and the Tracers' cover of "Gloria" is absolutely repulsive (I mean that in a good way). The Baron's ultra low-fi "All I Ask" is a neat little slammer, and the Chocolate Moose's "Chocolate Moose Theme" is just plain heroically ridiculous. There's also Larry & The Blue Notes' oh-so-awesome "Night of the Sadist," which combines a crunchy guitar riff with ultra-cool slasher-flick lyrics. The Mods' "Days Mind the Time" is a bewitching, beautiful folk-rocker, and the Jinx's "Come on Up" closes the album in rip-roaringly rockin' fashion.
It's not a perfect comp, though: The Five of a Kind's "I Don't Want to Find Another Girl" is slow and dull, while the Visions' "Humpty Dumpty" is more annoying than anything else. The Gnats' "The Girl" is pure generic, run-of-the mill garage rock, and the Barons' "Don't Blame Me" is also pretty uninteresting.
But, all in all, this is an excellent garage rock disc, and one that'll fit well in the collection of any certified Pebbles/Nuggets/Back From the Grave/Teenage Shutdown/etc. obsessive.
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