The Silencers - Rock N' Roll Enforcers
July 1980 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
The Silencers
Rock N’ Roll Enforcers
Genre: Rock and roll enforcing.
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Head On Collision
Remote Control
Johnny Too Bad
Shiver and Shake
I Can’t Believe It
Requisite 80s Cover: A lot of bands cover the “Peter Gunn Theme”. This version is a beast. It’s a two lane blacktop drag race with blood dripping from the mufflers.
A cover of “Cold Sweat”. They are no James Brown but, hell yes for trying.
From the first few seconds you know that The Silencers thought they were gonna be big. Like, maybe the New Boomtown Rats or something. (Those Johnny Fingers keyboards are what keyed me to this)
But they want to be more muscular than the Rats. “Head On Collision” was a single, wasn’t it? I swear I heard that song a bunch of times as a kid.
It’s catchy as hell. I love the Devo meets Punk “Remote Control” and wish that was the theme song to the game show. RIP, Ken Ober.
You spend a lifetime writing your first album and then you have to come up with your second while touring and trying to figure out who you are.
I think that happened here because they didn’t live up to this promise.
Stellar record, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj9352Fwwos&list=OLAK5uy_ndfq_tWIg-FrlD9ckJ9tq7u2BaVc-Wxps
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