A collection of rare Radio Rats demos never released on CD.
All these recordings predated The Radio Rats album 'Via Dolorosa' recorded in 1988.
'Via Dolorosa' was re-recorded by Shifty Records in 1990 and released on vinyl as 'Big Beat' (also available here on Rhythm Records).
None of these songs ever made it to the next Radio Rats albums, hence this compilation.
Musicians:
Jonathan Handley: vocals and all instruments except:
Gil Marais-Gilchrist: guitar on 8, 10 and 11.
Dave Davies: vocals on 'Lucky No. 1'
'Agony' is by TITUS GROAN
Dave Davies [vox]
Dave Allen [guitar]
Peter Peyrl [drums]
Jonathan Handley [bass and vox].
All songs wreckorded by Lloyd Ross of SHIFTY Records between 1985 and 1988.
Song one deals with sitting in an empty house in Dalpark Ext 6 Brakpan
and missing kids and wife in UK desperately. Song two I forget – just a
standard, lustful and fanciful lyric about how things tend to end sadly. Song three is for Lee Johnson of Springs who crashed into a tree outside
our house in 1976 and died [with Les, who was with him]. Lee had a
golden Fender Les Paul and played the blues. Song four is for the visit of Halley's
Comet. Song five is sung by Dave Davies and was written while driving into a
rising full moon from Klerksdorp to Boksburg. Song six is married to song one.
Song seven is about endorphins being heaven on earth. Song eight deals
with Frankie Lauder of Welkom who had a notorious brother and came from a poor
family but was a cool guy. Song nine is about the Quasimodo in all of us trying to get out.
Song ten is about dying in an hotel room and being discovered the next day
by your kids, Punk and New Wave and Metal and Disco and Techno and Rap. Rock 'n Roll had many children, some of whom he's ashamed of. Song ten is about a
hairdresser and the vocal was done in the back seat of a Mitsubishi Colt.
Song twelve is about pure teenage sexiness and innocence. Song thirteen says that love
is close to grief as is agony to ecstacy. Song fourteen is guilt-ridden for my baby sister who I teased
terribly and then dreamed about apocalyptically. Song fourteen is inspired by the
Prizzi trilogy. Song fifteen states that love is eletronic and involves molecules
and chemical bonds that are strong.
- Jonathan Handley, 2006
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