Nash the Slash - Creatures of the Night
#66
February 1981
Nash the Slash
Creatures of the Night
Genre: Scare Wave
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Wolf
Danger Zone
This album is crazy.
If Gary Numan, Slade and Jean Michel Jarre had a baby…
I’d almost call this a harbinger of Marilyn Manson. The covers of “Dead Man’s Curve” and “19th Nervous Breakdown” are matched by a truly abrasive and scabrous sounding set of originals.
That Stones cover is exactly what one wants from DIY electro covers. It’s not as bizarre as The Residents “Satisfaction” but it’s not supposed to be. I’d argue that it’s more evocative of an actual nervous breakdown than the original.
I’m also fond of “Dope on the Water” as an electro-track.
Look, the best songs here are the covers, for sure. But the album doesn’t suffer from the originals and what Nash is doing is raising the stakes on these songs, making them more ominous, more razor sharp.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/children-of-the-night/1069704998
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