Raveonettes - Love In A Trash Cab

by Anthony Strutt

published: 22 / 7 / 2005

Label: Sony Music
Format: 7"

intro

50's influenced beatnik guitar-rock on second single from the Raveonettes’ third album 'Pretty in Black’

This is the second single from the Raveonettes’ third album 'Pretty in Black’. On it the coolest 50's beatnik guitar ever jangles over the greatest boy / girl duet in my entire CD collection. Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo are the coolest front people in a band since the era that influenced them so much. ‘Love in a Trash Can’ is 50’s influenced and throws in a hint of the very early 60’s for good measure. When this is played live, it is the perfect song to pogo too. ‘Vamp Scratch Whore’ is the first of the B sides on the CDS version of ‘Love in a Trash Can’. It is again primitive sounding and has a 50"s twang. It is very much like a song from the Raveonettes idol Buddy Holly, but is far from being their best song. The CDS also features the video and two remixes of ‘Love in a Trash Can’. The first by Dreadnaught is clubby and full of beats, and leaves only Sharin’s vocal audioable, but at least it leaves the twangy guitar alone.The second remix is by Funkstorung. It again is clubby but, slowed right down, has a X Files spookiness to it. It sounds like a record that has been warped and is very strange. There are also pink and red vinyl 7” versions of ‘Love in a Trash Can’. The B side of the pink vinyl is ‘Be My Sunshine’, a 50’s sounding number with big Phil Spector values and lots of percussion, which givie it a Christmas feel. The B side of the red vinyl 7” is ‘Railroad Tracks’ which finds the Raveonettes in country vein and is reminiscent of Mojave 3. Perfect !

Track Listing:-

1 Love In A Trashcan
2 Railroad Tracks

Band Links:-

http://www.theraveonettes.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theraveonettes
https://twitter.com/theraveonettes
https://plus.google.com/+theraveonettes
https://www.youtube.com/user/theraveonettes
https://www.songkick.com/artists/412456-raveonettes

Label Links:-

http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/sonymusicsouth
https://www.facebook.com/SonyMusicSouth
https://www.youtube.com/user/essonymusic
https://instagram.com/sonymusic
https://plus.google.com/+sonymusic/posts

interviews

Interview (2009)

In our third interview with 50s-influenced Danish garage rock group the Raveonettes, Anthony Strutt speaks to Sune Rose Wagner, the group's guitarist and singer, about their recently released fifth album, 'In and Out of Control'

Interview (2005)

Interview (2003)

live reviews

Raveonettes

Marie Hazelwood photographs Danish garage rock duo the Raveonettes at a gig at Erics in Liverpool

Rough Trade East, London, 6/10/2009

Astoria, London, 6/2/2004

London Astoria, 6/2/3003

features

Whip It On (2003)

After profiling the original version of the Raveonettes 'Whip it On' last month which came out on Crunchy Frog , Anthony Strutt now looks at the new version of the album which has been released on Columbia, and concludes that it is even better

Whip It Up (2003)