“This self-produced third album was the band’s last. At times the frustration can be heard amid the clamor (“48 Hours”). Nevertheless, the band’s dual guitars and minimal drums add up to some pretty righteous gutbucket R&B racket. Innovations and improvements would only have corrupted the Gories’ primitive brilliance, especially this late in the game, but Mick Collins proves yet again that he possesses one of the most soulful voices the city of Detroit ever produced. Reverb helps dull the edge of Dan Kroha’s nasal yelp. And Peg O’Neill’s drums are mixed more up front than ever. Standout tunes include “There But for the Grace of God Go I” and a lurching rendition of Earl King’s “Trick Bag” that surpasses even the classic Meters version in soul if not smooth New Orleans style. Though Outta Here saw the end of a great band just as the scene it best exemplified was coming into its own, the Gories left their fans on just the bent note everyone expected.”
KIngs of GARAGE-BLUES-PUNK. In SURFADELIC visual sound stereo, dig!!!
Welcome to the ”Garage pit of horror” featuring two of the best Crypt rec. garage punk gangs in a raw lo-fi battle. The Beguiled from California with their 4 trax ’93. ”Black Gloves”EP, a satanic rippin’ garage rock ritual predecessor to their legendary ’94 evil masterpiece ”Blue Dirge”, with slightly more twisted versions than on album. It’s a brutal reverb mix of Stooges, Link Wray and 60’s garage influences.
On the other side is pretty well known Mick Collins cult garage/blues punk gang with couple of their ’92 singles with non Lp tunes. Primal sound of simple drums, no bass, twin guits driven garage screech. Great tribalistic treat of ”Idol With The Golden Head” and trax from ‘Back From The Grave’, ”To Find Out” [Keggs] and ”Makin’ Love” [The Sloths].
“This here’s the Gories from Detroit, hot of the press.
It’s gonna jump on you baby and it’s gonna stay in your dress.
Here it comes!”
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“After a slew of singles and one beautifully realized yet chaotic album, The Gories went to Memphis, Tennessee in 1990 to record an album at Easley Recording. The man they enlisted to helm the record was none other than Alex Chilton, formerly of the Boxtops, Big Star, and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns — an avowed rock deconstructionist who had produced the Cramps psychobilly classic, Songs the Lord Taught us.
I Know You Fine opens with a lyrically poetic and antiquated sounding DJ’s shout-out from days passed: “This here’s the Gories from Detroit; hot of the press. It’s gonna jump on you baby and it’s gonna stay in your dress. Here it comes!” And then the first song, “Hey Hey, We’re the Gories,” scratches along, playfully aping, you guessed it, The Monkees. The slightly lascivious “You Make it Move” follows, buoyed by a fuzzy, livewire guitar line and the primal, repetitive thud of what sounds like a disabused oil drum.
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Coherency is one of The Gories’ strong suits. Trying to hold such disparate influences together — Guitar Slim, Chuck Berry, Link Wray, Bo Diddley, Suicide, Joy Division, The Sonics, in a slight way, Hendrix and voodoo — could make for a messy affair, but The Gories are masters at holding many contrasting sounds together at once.
The album is top to bottom nearly flawless sly and impish garage punk, shot through with minimalist deconstructionism and is built perfectly around the flinty, abrasive and subtly textured twin guitars of Collins and Kroha. O’Neil is the minimalist foil that drives each song — try finding another band, aside from perhaps Neu!, with a drummer who so thoroughly disregards the practice of doing “fills” and makes practically no rhythmic changes.There are four stand out songs: The impeccably literate “Thunderbird ESQ,” a song about a guy wedded more to his fortified wine than his female companion, “Smashed,” about, well you can probably figure it out, the desperate “View From Here,” and, probably their most famous song, which is not saying much, “Nitroglycerine,” a particularly sweaty song, essentially about having sex and fighting. The Gories put out one more album, the aptly titled Outta Here (1992), and then broke up.” [blogcritics.org]
Blues-Garage-Punk masterpiece, now in Surfadelic Stereo Vinyl Rip! Includes ”Queenie”[not on CD]. Nitroglycerine!!!360>
”I’m going out gonna get my girl
Gonna go to the store buy some Thunderbird
Gonna get my car find some place to be alone
We gon’ start drinking ’til it’s all gone…”
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