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Chrome Cranks
Diabolical Boogie: Singles, Demos, & Rarities
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Love and Sound [#][Demo Version]
2. More Than Alrite [#][Demo Version]
3. Remember Me [#][Demo Version]
4. The Big Rip-Off [#][Demo Version]
5. Slow Crash [#][Demo Version]
6. Dog Eat Dog - Chrome Cranks, Scptt
7. The Devil Is in Texas - Chrome Cranks, Johnston, Daniel
8. Sacred Soul
9. Street Waves [#] - Chrome Cranks, Herman, Tom
10. Pin-Tied
11. Red Dress [#]
12. Safe from the Blade [#][Demo Version]
13. Party's Over
14. Shut Down - Chrome Cranks, Crash
15. Black to Comm [#] - Chrome Cranks, Davis
16. Queen of Tomorrow [#]
Track Listings (17) - Disc #2
1. Eight-Track Mind
2. Collision Blues
3. Burn Baby Burn
4. Mr. Fingers - Chrome Cranks, Brainiac
5. Come in and Come On
6. Stuck in a Cave [Live]
7. Lost Time Blues
8. Draghouse [Live]
9. Julie Do Ya Love Me - Chrome Cranks, Bahler, Tom
10. Auto Mo-Down - Chrome Cranks, Casale, Gerald
11. Nobody Spoil My Fun - Chrome Cranks, Saxon, Sky
12. Dyin' Style
13. Wrapped Up in Red
14. Dead Man's Suit
15. Little Johnny Jewel - Chrome Cranks, Verlaine, Tom
16. The Slider - Chrome Cranks, Bolan, Marc
17. Some Kinda Crime

CD Details

All Artists: Chrome Cranks
Title: Diabolical Boogie: Singles, Demos, & Rarities
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: ATAVISTIC
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/31/2009
Album Type: Enhanced
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 735286197921, 829410267267

Synopsis

Album Description

A super-swank enhanced double CD collection of singles, demos, and rarities, plus three music videos from NYC's prime dirt blues movers, culled from their golden 1992-98 era. Copious, soul-bearing liner notes by Peter Aaron, the Cranks' mouthpiece and official public face. Includes covers of AC/DC, Devo, Television, Pere Ubu, T. Rex, The MC5, Daniel Johnston, The Germs, Sky Saxon, and Brainiac.

CD Reviews

Gnaw and Torture

Sharon Nichols | 05/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In any hearty record collection, The Chrome Cranks would be wedged between Nick Cave and The Cramps. And rightly so. For out of the festering wasteland of rockabilly, thrash, punk and blues came the Cranks, slithering out of the muck to take a sledge hammer to central nervous systems and tympanic membranes everywhere. Sure, it's been done before and band influences are obvious (Stooges, Birthday Party, Pussy Galore), but they did it with their guts hanging out. Though the band's been defunct for a decade, they've recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos and rarities-- two-plus hours of nerve-wracking arsenal to torch your wig. Waste no time getting down to dementia from disc one, track one: William Weber's sinister guitar, Jerry Teel's grunting bass lines and Bob Bert's savage drums back Peter Aaron's shrieking and moping with the ferocity of a heap of cats in heat. Three Cranks videos on enhanced disc two invite your eyeballs into hell, as well. Diabolical Boogie may not be the best place to start with the Cranks; this reviewer personally finds 1995's Dead Cool the most digestible. But if digestion is your objective, this may not be your band anyway. The Cranks lived to gnaw and torture. My only complaint is that this one's not on vinyl.

--Sharon Nichols, Chronogram magazine

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Cranking Out the Rock!

Morgan G. Bohn | 08/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have been a long time Chrome Cranks Fan. This is perhaps not the LP new listeners would want to start with however, there are great excerpts from various periods including live cuts from radio/studio performances that are fantastic. I highly reccomend this."