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| < Reviews of albums ~ Elvis Hitler - Disgraceland |
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:34 pm
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OK, I was meant to do this a long time ago, but oh well. This album was a turning point for me. When I first heard it, it was like a blow to the head. I was really big into rockabilly at the time, but when I heard Disgraceland it was like a new door was opened. Without this album, I probably would have never started my search for similar distortions of rockabilly, and hence not have stumbled onto psychobilly at all.
Oddly enough this band rarely enters the is it or isn't it psycho debate. My take would be, if it isn't then what is? It was a perfect blend of rockabilly and punk rock irreverence. Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Beautiful Corpse is a real stomper and Berlin To Memphis is still one of my favorite songs. Other notables would be Crush Your Skull and I Love Your Guts, just pure attitude, with humor but not in a stupid and cheesy way. I also really love this version of Ten Wheels For Jesus (The Beasts of Bourbon version is Ace, but EH gave it balls) and how can you not respect a band with balls. Balls enough to sing a song called "black babies dancing on fire" I might add! It may not be for everyone, but it should be given more credit by our scene than I think it gets. If you arent familiar with them, get this album. Get Hellbilly secon, and skip past Supersadomasicisticexpialidocious all together.
1 Cool Daddy In A Cadillac
2 Live Fast, Die Young
3 Hot Rod To Hell
4 Rocking Over Russia
5 Berlin To Memphis
6 Elvis' Ripoff Theme
7 Battle Cry Of 1,000 Men
8 Green Haze (Pt. I & II)
9 I Love Your Guts
10 Ten Wheels For Jesus
11 Black Babies Dancing On Fire
12 Crush Your Skull
13 Disgraceland |
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:39 pm
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Mastercunt
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fucking great album
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:19 pm
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| I like Elvis Hitler. They were one of those bands I always menat to get more into and never did. Maybe I finally will now. CHeers for the review. |
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:52 pm
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| Good review Chuck. whenever I look for this on cd its always around 40 $ glad I got it vinyl. |
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:38 pm
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:29 am
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| Love this album, absolutely hate Green Haze though. I have never made it all the way through that track |
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Gone Mental Podcast
Mental Rock and Roll |
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:52 am
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| moojuece wrote: | | Love this album, absolutely hate Green Haze though. I have never made it all the way through that track |
Yeah, that could have been cut down to about 30 seconds. I guess it was a pretty creative idea though, but maybe not for an album. |
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:15 am
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| Got it last night... I'll be listening today. |
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Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:43 pm
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| I need this album. I have the other two. Hellbilly is amazing. I have to make the trip to Detroit some day to see him do his once a year show. |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:33 am
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| Brilliant album. Sadly they never play Europe on their one-show-a-year-tour |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:22 am
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| Barfboy wrote: | | Brilliant album. Sadly they never play Europe on their one-show-a-year-tour |
That's not true. They were at the wild at heart in berlin not that long ago. and last year they played the halloween gig. |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:20 am
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| They've made a few appearances in the last couple of years outside of Detroit. |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:05 pm
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| I wish they would play west coast too many bands out here plain suck. |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:28 pm
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| Bu66er wrote: | | Barfboy wrote: | | Brilliant album. Sadly they never play Europe on their one-show-a-year-tour |
That's not true. They were at the wild at heart in berlin not that long ago. and last year they played the halloween gig. |
Shit, I missed that 
I would have driven to Berlin to see them. |
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Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:03 pm
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| KRUG_666 wrote: | | I wish they would play west coast too many bands out here plain suck. |
Manuel from the demon crew was supposed to be booking them a couple years back, but I don't know if it materialized or not. |
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