The Alley Cats - Nightmare City
#259
1981 Housekeeping
The Alley Cats
Nightmare City
Genre: LA Punk
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
One More Chance to Survive
Give Me a Little Pain
Sounding like a hybrid of 45 Grave and Generation X, this LA Band must be known by a few of the Listening Post. Co-horts, but not me.
Like X the male and female singers trade off here. But Diane Chai is no Exene Cervenka and Randy Stodola isn’t John Doe. By that I mean they don’t have any trade off that gives them a signature. That said, Randy has a razorblade of a guitar and some terrific tone.
At times it’s more Glam than punk, “One More Chance to Survive” sounds more like a band that loves KISS than X.
Ok, that’s a lot of similes. I’ll stop for now.
How are the songs?
Not great. And Randy is not a great singer. Nothing memorable and nothing terrible.
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