The Rousers - Touched
#573
1981 Housekeeping
The Rousers
Touched
Genre: Power Pop Punk
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
My Girlfriend’s Mother
You’re in the Import section of Bleecker Bob’s.
You’re thumbing through the (very) expensive (to you) albums in thick plastic covers.
Most of them are bands you’ve read about in Trouser Press.
One of them looks like a band that you think is a Clash wannabe group.
“The Rousers?” You ask yourself.
And then you just keep flipping.
You leave with the Killer Pussy maxi single of “Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage” and a Ben Vaughn Combo single.
This didn’t happen but it’s the only way we would have known about this Dutch rock band that sounds a little like Power Pop, a wee touch of garage and a handful of Joe Strummer.
But you will love this sound when you buy your first Libertines record.
25 years later.
Ok. This is weird.
In the 1980 list we covered their debut but wrongly indicated that they only had one album. After writing this review I went back and read it and discovered something strange: That is one of the few reviews I wrote in the second person that year.
Something about The Rousers manifests this in me.
Weird.
The debut is better.
Missed?: the Killer Pussy single was the correct choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ia7db15Cm0
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