Stray Cats - Stray Cats

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Jun 9, 2016 Sold Date

Jun 7, 2016 Start Date

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Article name: Stray Cats
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: music on vinyl Number of tracks: 12

Tracklist LP - 1

STRAY CATS - RUNAWAY BOYS STRAY CATS - FISHNET STOCKINGS STRAY CATS - UBANGI STOMP STRAY CATS - JEANIE, JEANIE, JEANIE STRAY CATS - STORM THE EMBASSY STRAY CATS - ROCK THIS TOWN STRAY CATS - RUMBLE IN BRIGHTON STRAY CATS - STRAY CAT STRUT STRAY CATS - CRAWL UP AND DIE STRAY CATS - DOUBLE TALKIN' BABY STRAY CATS - MY ONE DESIRE STRAY CATS - WILD SAXAPHONE

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Stray Cats debut album came hot on the heels of the two hit singles "Runaway Boys" and "Rock This Town," both energy filled rockabilly songs that hearkened back to the 1950s era of pure rock & roll with an updated, clean '80s sound highlighted by the prominent double bass playing of Lee Rocker and drumming of Slim Jim Phantom. The Stray Cats had more depth than pure rockabilly, as shown on the out and out rock & roll tracks "Fishnet Stockings," "Double Talkin Baby," and "Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie" (a facsimile of "Summertime Blues"), and the sleazy third single "Stray Cat Strut," perfectly evocative of a night out on the tiles. "Storm the Embassy," a song about the Iranian hostage situation than ran throughout 1980, would not have sounded out of place performed by the Clash, and "Ubangi Stomp" bore more than a passing resemblance to another musical craze of the early '80s: ska as performed by Madness or any of the 2 Tone stable of acts. This album was by far their most successful, hitting number six in the charts and their only entry into the Top 40. It was never released in the U.S., but five tracks, the three singles, plus "Rumble in Brighton" and "Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie" were amalgamated with tracks from the follow-up, Gonna Ball and appeared on the U.S. compilation Built for Speed. ~ Sharon Mawer

Sharon Mawer