Rocky Sharpe & the Replays - Rock It To Mars
November 1980
Rocky Sharpe & the Replays
Rock It to Mars
Genre: Rockabilly
2 out of 5
You know the drill by this point. Either Stray Cats were a revelation or they were just the group that cut through. It’s more likely that Brian Setzer was the revelation. His guitar was a razor blade that slashed through the revival, injecting with urgency.
Rocky and his blokes have more fealty to the original Doo-Wop sound.
I’m not sure why you would play this when you could go to the originals.
And, maybe that’s why we don’t talk about Rocky Sharpe anymore.
That don’t make it not good, however.
Thing is, there is a SoCal band around this time called Big Daddy. And their conceit was taking modern rock songs and remaking them as 50s rock & roll tunes. I loved both of their records, albeit they are a bit of novelty. But what they accomplished was very similar to what producers did with Mash-ups in the early 00s. Prove that all rock music is basically the same, just dressed up differently.
It simultaneously impresses and destroys the thing we love.
Rocky isn’t investing anything, though. He’s worshipping at an altar.
I feel like we’ve all moved on at this point.
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