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Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip

    Heavy metal? Glam? Hard rock? Make your own fuckin’ call, you poser. We’re not gonna do it for you. Bound for Hell is early ‘80s L.A. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in the teeth to clear the way to that one big shot. This set delivers 21 tracks by 21 artists detailing the Sunset Strip’s most razor-sharp heathens. Drumsticks burned. Hands were severed. Faces bled. Heavy was HELL for a half decade and it was a long, long way down.

    TRACK LISTING

    SIDE A
    A1. Going To The City - Stormer
    A2. Cocaine - L.A. Rocks
    A3. Bound For Hell - Max Havoc
    A4. Rock ‘N’ Roll Ain’t Pretty - Jaded Lady
    A5. Ready To Explode - Steeler
    A6. No Time To Lose - Lizzy Borden
    SIDE B
    B1. On The Run - SIN
    B2. Give Em The Old 1, 2, 3 - Black ‘N Blue
    B3. Damnation Alley - Bitch
    B4. Feeling To Rock - Romeo
    B5. Savage Kind Of Girl - V.V.S.I.
    SIDE C
    C1. Up From The Depths - Hellion
    C2. Blade Of Steel - Angeles
    C3. Cold Reception - Knightmare II
    C4. Cinderella (In Black Leather) - Witch
    C5. Liquid Lady - Reddi Killowatt
    SIDE D
    D1. Lesson Well Learned - Armored Saint
    D2. We Came To Kill - Leather Angel
    D3. Take It Or Leave It - Rough Cutt
    D4. Fool Of Lies - Lisa Baker
    D5. Judgement Day - Odin

    The Sunset Strip

    The Endless Sea

      The Sunset Strip returns in 2018 to the psych instrumentals that dotted the band's earlier releases. Billed as "Soundtracks from unreleased films.' Take a pinch of moog-mellotron moodscape, a dash of Can-influenced Krautrock and a soupcon of Set The Controls freak out and you have the psychedelic gumbo that is The Endless Sea. Melbourne/Geelong elders the Sunet Strip soar out into the stratosphere with this album, blissful and as siked as you want. 

      The Sunset Strip

      Stone Lazy

        Having recorded / released several well received albums for Au Go Go in the mid to late 1980's/early 1990's, including the much revered "Move Right In" opus, once referred to as “..a minor masterpiece of multi-layered guitar riffs and dark, acid-blues / avant-sludge rock… it remains one of the most underrated independent albums ever issued in Australia…”.

        They recorded / released two incredible CDEPs, "Scrape It Out" and "Nothing Lost Nothing Gained" (both over 30 minutes long) for the Dogmeat label (for whom this album was to be released, but they sadly folded before it could happen, thus languishing in vaults since).

        This is an incredible snapshot of musical work from a verdent period in Melbourne / Geelong recording history.

        So, now in 2015 and Brown and fellow Strip guitarist Andy Turner have assembled the pieces and issued it on vinyl LP / CD. Drawn from a number of sessions, recorded between 1993-1995 by original band members Andy Turner and Warwick Brown with Mike Glenn / Paul Ryan and featuring guests Tim Hemensley, Joel Silbersher, and Charlie Owen. This is a first time release for this album; a vinyl pressing of 250 on the GREVILLE label and a w/w CD pressing on Agitated Records for this 10 tracker.

        The Sunset Strip emerged out of the vibrant 80s Australian indie music scene with very different slant to the Detroit sound that was predominant. Mining a seam of guitar-heavy music that stretched from The Byrds to Buffalo Springfield to Crazy Horse to Dinosaur Jr and beyond, the band was critically but never commercially successful and fell apart in 1995. This is guitar music at it's broadest - from maelstrom to melody.Prepare to be swept away.

        The Sunset Strip track "Mercy Killing" (recorded in the same time as this album) was featured on the recent Amorhpous Androgynous; Wizard of Oz compilation.

        A really special archival release, there will be a primer of classic Sunset Strip tracks released on Agitated soon also.



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