#100
1985 Housekeeping
The Morlocks
Emerge
Genre: Garage Rock
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Born Loser
There have been a lot of bands who did it better but I don’t know if any have been so slavish to the sound of merging Garage Punk with Horror Rock. I want to hop in a topdown, drive into the desert in black and white and give myself over to Russ Meyer and whatever he and his denizens have in store for me.
This might be the best story we’ve heard about on The Listening Post but it seems that the Lead Singer was presumed dead for a while but actually: “In 1999, Spin Magazine printed an article that claimed that lead singer Leighton Koizumi had died, however this turned out to be untrue. The reason for Koizumi's vanishing act from music-making, involved the "robbing of a dealer" in a Mexican border town in 1990. Although he was just after drugs, Koizumi got ten years in prison on a kidnapping charge, because, as he tells it, the incident involved "tying people up." When he was finally released, he started a new band which he called the Morlocks, with none of the original members.”
And that’s living rock and roll, baby.
I know I’m being generous with this but I really loved every scuzzy second of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_v8hyvTI_8&list=PLJuMCQgFOzAyEGM3_muhXLdY3HomWmqRL
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