Sunday

pagans

...quite the reason why cleveland ohio was so stacked with underground swill-mongers like the electric eels/pere ubu/rocket/dead boys/mirrors is open to many thesis wonderings...thr list reads like a whos-who of top trash and that ain't even including these stoner street level cats...they started life in the garage as the mad staggers which is a cool name for 1974 thats for sure...by the time they devolved to the pagans they were a full ON rock'n'roll attack squad laying down blitzkrieg noise for all interested parties...harking their racket back to the mid six-oh garage punkers and laying some scummy metal guitar squeal/bass throb/pummel all over and blasting like the dead boys and other anglo influenced '77 riff killers they piled up a goodly amount of tapes both studio and live and thats whats presented here...kicking off with the first single and moving through monumental hot joints that stand loud and proud next to any combo who rocked the days(and nights)...ends with a live set from summer '79 with guests jimmy zero/cheetah chrome helping lay waste to the assembled punk heads...
...get it here...

2 comments:

planckzoo said...

No other band of this ilk had as many killer songs as the Pagans. too bad this and the pink album reissues on Crypt bombed, it was a great chance for people to catch up with these hoods.

spacedsaviour said...

they certainly were a full on rocking attack unit and thats no exaggeration...