Dictators - Bloodbrothers

NEW VINYL ON ASYLUM 2009

LTD. 180 GRAMS VIRGIN VINYL.

Considering that the first Dictators album came out in 1975, scads of credit is due these hearty pre-punk New Yorkers for blazing a long trail, melding the essentials of junk culture -- wrestling, fast food, TV, beer, dope, cars, scandal sheets -- with loud/hard/fast rock'n'roll and thus creating an archetype that has been adopted and adapted by countless other bands. Although wavering wildly in terms of style and track-to-track consistency, all of the band's albums are great. As protégés of genius music journalist Richard Meltzer, the Dictators helped translate a lot of intellectual fandom's crazed hypothetical theorizing about rock'n'roll's possibilities into wretchedly wonderful reality.  www.thedictators.com/

Tracklist

1. Faster & Louder
2. Baby Let's Twist
3. No Tomorrow
4. The Minnesota Strip
5. Stay With Me
6. I Stand Tall
7. Borneo Jimmy
8. What It Is
9. Slow Death