Scratchy Records
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Visit product page →The Rocks ‘lost’ 2nd album finally gets a UK release.. Sounding like a mutant Iggy Pop / Brett Anderson hybrid fronting late ‘70s heroes The Only Ones, the legendary South London stage botherers follow up their 2004 debut with a collection of molten punk/pop classics. Previously only available in europe.
“A huge dose of exciting rock’n’roll” Artrocker
Tracklisting:
1. Letter To The Frontline
2. The Game Is Up
3. Screamers
4. Foam
5. Tearjerker
6. On The Roof
7. Kickin The Teeth
8. Call Out The Changes
9. Night Of The Long Knives
10. Out Of The Blue
11. Time To Leave
12. I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
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Visit product page →Fiery debut from one of London’s most exciting and notoriously shambolic bands
‘If The Strokes were fronted by a massive score of drugs that make you go Raaargh they’d probably sound as anthemic as this’ The Fly
‘Great name, great band. Drawing on influences from The New York Dolls to The Ramones to The Make Up, The Rocks unleash an explosive debut album’ Music Week
‘The influence of the Clash is writ large on the group's rhythm-driven rock.. A lucky bag of very live and alive-sounding treats’ The Observer
‘Mix of blazing guitars, shiny pop melodies and the kind of screaming normally reserved for teen slasher movies’ The Guardian
Tracklisting:
1. Eyes Wide Open
2. Can You Hear Me?
3. We Got It
4. North London
5. Save The Wolf
6. I Won't Need You When You're Dead
7. Celeste
8. Everybody In The Place
9. Sicko
10. What Have You Done
11. Zafira
12. The Bomb
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Visit product page →‘Think The Clash being eaten by lions. Brilliant’ Rocksound
‘A stroppy, Britpoppy garage rock blast, vocalist James Taylor howls like a man in dire need of a Strepsil. Which is good.’ NME
Tracklisting:
1. Can You Hear Me ?
2. It’s Really Bad
3. Everybody In The Place (Live)Release date: July 2004 (originally also released on hand stamped 7 inch vinyl SR 00017)
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Sold outVisit product page →Compilation of The Rocks’ first three singles on Scratchy
The Rocks were part of a vibrant early noughties live music scene in London energised by the tidal wave of new music from the States that included The Strokes, White Stripes, Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their gigs would elasticate from chaos to genius sometimes within a single song.. if they managed to get to the end of it. Given their appetite for destruction maybe it was inevitable that their debut album proper ‘Asking For Trouble’ would end up in the shadow of their myth - this early snapshot however captures a band who were having too much fun to care what the future might hold..
Tracklisting:
1. Everybody In The Place
2. We Got It
3. Sicko
4. I Won't Need You When You're Dead
5. Save The Wolf
6. Celeste
7. The BombRelease date: April 2004 (previously only available in Europe)
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Sold outVisit product page →‘It’s a girl-on-boy romp across brilliantly shimmering Britpop guitars that doesn’t even come up for air, let alone a post-coital cigarette’. NME
‘An artrock track equal to New Wave’s “Another Girl, Another Planet” Artrocker
‘A mini mod pop anthem’ Drowned in Sound
Tracklisting:
1. Celeste
2. Someone Who CaresRelease date: November 2003
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Visit product page →‘Specialising in off-the-wall rock’n’roll and delighting in the most shambolic of live shows, The Rocks’ second single throws a subtle groove into the mix (‘We Got it’) before going super-cool and obscure (The Bomb’). Given time this self-destructive art offensive could do great things.’ Rocksound
’A track that not only declares it’s confidence, but demonstrates it. A bouncing Motown bass and tickling drums define the groove, before James Taylor’s Princey falsetto enters, then letting his larynx rip into the chorus. Combined with the thrashier ‘The Bomb’, this is a real statement of intent from one of the few British garage hopefuls.’ X-Ray
Tracklisting:
1. We Got It
2. The Bomb
3. Save The WolfRelease date: July 2003 (originally also released on hand stamped 7 inch vinyl SR 01092)
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Visit product page →‘It’s the best debut of the year, and will probably remain so. It’s institutionalised England gone mad. It’s everything that means everything. It’s loud. It’s hope. It’s god. And it’s fucking alive man, it’s fucking alive..’ The Fly
‘They have the most pissed sounding vocalist since Shane MacGowan.. When he screams ‘JUST F**KING LEAVE IT’ during ‘Everybody In The Place’ it’s easy to imagine that he really is in the middle of a fight, and it’s quite likely that he started it.’ Kerrang
Tracklisting:
1. Everybody In The Place
2. I Won't Need You When You're Dead
CD contains extra track ‘Sicko’Release date: March 2003
