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Meteors - The Mutant Monkeys and the Surfers from Zorch

  by Tony Gaughan

published: 5 / 3 / 2011



Meteors - The Mutant Monkeys and the Surfers from Zorch
Label: Anagram Records
Format: CD

intro

Monotonous and boring 1988 album from psychobilly band the Meteors, which has recently been reissued

The Meteors claim to be filed under the genre of psychobilly, a fusion of punk and rockabilly. On a few listens it should be filed as joke-a-billy as in truth there are three decent songs here and two of them are covers. This is like a parody soundtrack from John Waters' 'Parody Cry Baby'. The Meteors have not covered themselves in glory here as ,unlike the Cramps who totally nailed the punk/rockabilly/swamp/garage crossover perfectly, the recordings are patchy and the songs are pretty much identical to each other. The fourth track and probably the pick of the bunch, 'I'm Invisible Man', is ruined by a reverberated cry of "Terminal Tom Terminal Tom, he submerges turtles in butter". What? It's a long wait to the bonus track, a cover of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' 'Little Red Riding Hood'. It is not as good as the original and in fact not even as good as the 999 version on their 1981 'Concrete' album. This is a re-issue, yet the question should be though why it was ever issued in the first place....



Track Listing:-
1 Swamp Thing
2 Electro II - The Revenge
3 Sidewalk Psycho
4 I'm Invisible Man
5 She's My Baby Again
6 Surfin' On Planet Zorch
7 Spine Bender
8 Dance Crazy Baby
9 Rawhide
10 Oxygen Dog
11 Yellow Zone
12 Meet Me At The Morgue



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