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Artist | The Dictators
Title | Go Girl Crazy!
Genre | Punk Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 66:49
Label | Real Gone Music Store | 2015
Catalog | RGM-0411 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 263 kbps Size | 133.22 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The Next Big Thing 4:22
02. I Got You Babe 4:03
03. Back To Africa 3:34
04. Master Race Rock 4:14
05. Teengenerate 3:26
06. California Sun 3:03
07. Two Tub Man 4:08
08. Weekend 4:01
09. (I Live For) Cars And Girls 3:57
10. Two Tub Man (Remixed, 2015) 3:41
11. Weekend (Remixed, 2015) 4:09
12. Backseat Boogie (Outtake, Take 1) 3:44
13. The Next Big Thing (Alt. Take, Take 1) 4:10
14. I Got You Babe (Alt. Take With Vocal, Take 2) 4:13
15. Master Race Rock (Instrumental) 3:20
16. Teengenerate (Alt. Take With Vocal) 3:04
17. California Sun (Instrumental, Take 4) 3:10
18. (I Live For) Cars And Girls (Single Remix) 2:30
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────┤ Notes ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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Formed in 1974, NYC's The Dictators were one of the finest and most
influential proto-punk bands to walk the earth. Alternately reveling in and
satirizing the wanton excesses of a rock & roll lifestyle and lowbrow
culture (eg, wrestling, TV, fast food), with their world-view defined by
bassist/keyboardist and former fanzine publisher (Teenage Wasteland
Gazette) Andy (occasionally Adny) Shernoff and renegade rock
critic/theorist Richard Meltzer, the Dictators played loud, fast rock &
roll fueled by a love of 60s American garage rock, British Invasion pop,
and the sonic onslaught of the Who. Driven by the guitar barrage of Scott
'Top Ten' Kempner and Ross 'The Boss' Funichello and fronted by
indefatigable ex-roadie and wrestler Handsome Dick Manitoba (aka Richard
Blum), it seemed that nothing stood in the way of The Dictators and
mega-popularity.
In 1975, when proto-punk and heavy metal were two opposing camps who barely
acknowledged each other's existence, The Dictators' first album, "Go Girl
Crazy", found New York's finest trying to bring both sides together in a
brave, prescient, and (at least at the time) futile gesture. The band's
'smart guys who like dumb stuff' humor, junk-culture reference points, and
60s cheeze rock covers ('California Sun' and 'I Got You Babe' on one album)
would seem tailor made for the crowd at CBGB digging the Ramones and the
Dead Boys, but their sludgy and stripped down hard rock (and Ross 'The
Boss' Funichello's neo-metal guitar solos) were something else altogether.
And at a time when the arena rock audience had not yet embraced the
less-than-subtle humor and theatrics of Sparks or Cheap Trick, the
Dictators' ahead-of-their-time enthusiasm for wrestling, White Castle
hamburgers, and television confused more kids than it converted. Heard
today, the album is a hoot and a half; if the tempos could often stand to
be a bit livelier, Adny Shernoff's songs are still great (especially the
absurdly anthemic "Two Tub Man," "I Live for Cars and Girls," and
"Weekend"), the jokes still register (while the contemporary Political
Correctness brigade might blanch at "Back to Africa" or "Master Race Rock,"
they're merely absurd in the Mad Magazine tradition), and "secret weapon"
Handsome Dick Manitoba was truly a find. Dozens of groups borrowed
wholesale from "Go Girl Crazy" later on down the line, but the original is
still the greatest - and the funniest.
40th anniversary edition remastered and expanded. The 1975 proto-punk
classic has now been remastered for the first time in 25 years. Includes 2
tracks remixed and reimagined by Andrew WK, and 7 rare/unreleased album
outtakes.
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