SHOCKABILLY Earth Vs. Shockabilly LP ROUGH TRADE 1983 UK orig KRAMER-CHADBOURNE
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SHOCKABILLY
Formed in 1982 by guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, bass player Mark Kramer and drummer David Licht,
Shockabilly produced music that sounded like an unholy combination of the Electric Prunes
and Karlheinz Stockhausen. They specialized in outrageous cover versions - ‘Psychotic Reaction’,
‘19th Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Day Tripper’, ‘Purple Haze’ - and also more obscure items by
John Lee Hooker, John Fogerty and Syd Barrett. When the song seems to be familiar,
it gives the listener a thread on which to hang the power trio-chaos in which they liked to indulge.
Chadbourne’s background was in rock, blues, late 60s free jazz and free improvisation
"EARTH VS. SHOCKABILLY"
Produced by Kramer
1983 LP ROUGH TRADE RECORDS ROUGH 48
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
HEAVY CARDBOARD COVER
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LABEL: ROUGH TRADE - BLACK LABEL w/GREY CIRCULAR SAW ARTWORK - RED TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear & spine) ROUGH 48
Catalog on labels: ROUGH 48 (Side One / Side Two)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ROUGH 48 A1 A PORKY PRIME CUT HO HO.
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ROUGH 48 B1 A PORKY PRIME CUT
On labels: ?1983 Rough Trade Records
On Back Cover:Produced by Kramer ? Halloween 82?
tracklisting
Side A: 19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - ARE YOU EXPERIENCED
PSYCHEDELIC BASEMENT - BIG MONEY BROAD
TENNESSEE FLAT TOP BOX - CITY OF CORRUPTION
Side B: PEOPLE ARE STRANGE - DAY TRIPPER
PURPLE HAZE - WRESTLING WOMAN - OH YOKO!
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
In the first full-length flowering of the Shockabilly disease, the completely unique power trio
infuses Earth with what would become the kind of ammunition the group would regularly
fire at an uncaring world of listeners: guitarist Eugene Chadbourne's sociopolitical barbs
written on a sliding scale of minor chords and solos, bassist Kramer's rumbling discourse
with drummer David Licht. Earth Vs. Shockabilly is still a formidable debut chock-full
of a kind of rock music bottom feeding that is compulsively magnificent...(AllMusic)
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