THE DICTATORS Go Girl Crazy LP EPIC 1975 UK orig EPC80767 DICK MANITOBA NY PUNK
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THE DICTATORS
Formed in 1974, N.Y.C.'s 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 (e.g., 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
"GO GIRL CRAZY!"1975 LP EPIC RECORDS EPC 80767
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
UNLAMINATED SINGLE COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
Label: EPIC - ORANGE LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front & spine) EPC 80767
Catalog on labels: S EPC 80767 A° S EPC 80767 (KE 33348) / S EPC 80767 B° S EPC 80767 (KE 33348)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): EPC S 80767 A1
Other / Runout (Etched) tim's (Etched & Scratched out) CBS.S. 31614. A1.
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): EPC S 80767 B1
Other / Runout (Etched) tim's (Etched & Scratched out) CBS.S. 31614. B1.
On labels: rim text reads "A Product of CBS..........Made in England"
? 1975 CBS Inc.
Original sound recording made by CBS Inc.
CBS Records are the exclusive licensees for the UK
Rights Society / Publishing: Sure Enough Tunes, Carlin Mus. Corp., Planetary-Nom )London) Ltd./Robert Mellin Ltd.
On Back Cover: Recorded at CBS, NY
Mixed at the Record Plant, NY and Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis
Shorepak by Shorewood Packaging Co.Ltd., England
tracklisting
Side 1: THE NEXT BIG THING - I GOT YOU BABE
BACK TO AFRICA - MASTER RACE ROCK
Side 2: TEENGENERATE - CALIFORNIA SUN - TWO TUB MAN
WEEKEND - 8I LIVE FOR9 CARS AND GIRLS
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)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...(AllMusic)
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