Friday Freakout: The Jim Jones Revue

It's Friday once again - except this time it's somehow more Friday than usual, thanks to The Jim Jones Revue. They've chosen a bunch of riotous party tunes that'll shoot you into the weekend like a rock and roll bazooka. So grab onto your pants and...

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SLEEVENOTES BY THE JIM JONES REVUE

1. Iggy & The Stooges / Tight Pants

"The original version of Shake Appeal that eventually appeared on Raw Power. This track is bad to the bone, there is a real (junk) sickness that exudes from every groove of the track. But rhythmically its as tight as James Brown with a groove nail gunned to the deck. James Williamson’s playing is beyond brutal. Iggy once said a truly great guitarist plays like a thug, in Williamson he found his man."

2. The Birthday Party / Big Jesus Trash Can

"A sound of Elmer Bersteins Man With The Golden Arm soundtrack colliding with The Stooges in a free jazz maelstrom. The Birthday Party were the only band that could harness the power of The Stooges and interpret it in a way that created something original & special . They were the only band that made the 80’s bearable and after they split nothing came close"

3. Little Richard / Heeby Jeebies

"Our favourite Little Richard track change daily, it could be anything. However, I heard Heeby Jeebies at a party last weekend and the whole place erupted. We’ve said it before but to witness a gay black man, in make up screaming songs about sex in the racist South of the 1950’s must have been like being abducted by aliens and taken to Area 51. We can only fantasise!"

4. Bunker Hill / The Girl Can't Dance

"Released in 1962 or 1963, this is quite rightly regarded as one of the wildest rock’n’roll records ever recorded. Bunker Hill takes Little Richards’s scream and takes it to a place where it seems beyond human. If that’s not enough its got Link Wray playing the fastest most out of control backing track. We once did a cover of this that’s on You Tube somewhere if you dig deep enough"

5. The MC5 / I Just Don't Know

"A less well known track by The ‘5 that displays their crashing out of control rock’n’roll power. Like The Stooges, outside their native Detroit they were virtually unknown. But they did play at The London Rock’n’Roll Festival at Wembley in 1972 alongside Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Wayne Kramer was painted all gold and Fred Sonic Smith was dressed as a super hero-Brilliant! They got canned but Wayne Kramer did inspire Wilco Johnson to paint himself gold!"

6. Jerry Lee Lewis / High School Confidential

"Like Little Richard we could have chosen any of The Killer’s tunes. He just sounds sleazy and depraved on this track. Again like Little Richard and the original rock’n’roll dudes its like he’s landed from some malevolent flying saucer. Bleached hair, pink clothes, underage wife and setting his piano on fire."

7. Compulsive Gamblers / Pepper Spray Boogie

"The Compulsive Gambler are another of legendary Memphis master Jack Oblivions’ many guises. This is just a rip this joint block rocker!"

8. The Cramps / The Way I Walk

"The Cramps do Jumpin Jack Scott and put the inimitable twist on it. It was so sad when Lux died last year, he was a true rock’n’roll pioneer. The Cramps first three records…Gravest Hits, Songs The Lord Taught Us and Psychedelic Jungle are an absolutely classic trio of albums."

9. The Sonics / Shot Down

"Shot Down was released in 1965 and lays down a heavy rock’n’roll gauntlet. A sledge hammer groove with slashed speaker guitars and Gerry Roselie screaming over the top-a perfect rock’n’roll cocktail"