Nicktape 1, Gobbing Punksby Robert Brokenmouth |
***Cross-reference with: I, Portrait of the Artist as he Begins to Figure Things Out
1. ‘This Ain’t LA’
Robert Brokenmouth & the Hell With You, 2009
This Ain't L.A by Silkworms Ink
…buying all these glossy imported magazines with lots of Bowie, Roxy Music and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and so on, filling their heads with pretty girls and impossible dreams…
2. ‘Young Americans’
David Bowie, 1975
3. ‘Love is the Drug’
Roxy Music, 1975
4. ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 1975
… His taste was expansive, stretching from The Stooges and The MC5, through The New York Dolls to the outlaw figures of country and western music, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash…
5. ‘Search and Destroy’
The Stooges, 1973
6. ‘Personality Crisis’
The New York Dolls, 1973
7. ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’
Hank Williams, 1949
…Keith introduced The Boys Next Door to the dirtier side of rock‘n’roll, the Fugs, Captain Beefheart and so on; hence their later cover of Gene Vincent’s ‘Cat Man’…
8. ‘CIA Man’
The Fugs, 1965
9. ‘My Human Gets Me Blues’
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, 1969
10. ‘Cat Man’
Gene Vincent, 1957
…Side two begins with The Boys Next Door doing ‘These Boots are Made for Walking’, which should have made radio airplay easy. Nick’s ‘Masturbation Generation’ was followed by Nick and Mick’s ‘Boy Hero’ (‘Boots’ and ‘Boy Hero’ formed the single)…
11. ‘These Boots are Made for Walking’
The Boys Next Door, 1978
12. ‘Masturbation Generation’
The Boys Next Door, 1978
13. ‘Boy Hero’
The Boys Next Door, 1978
AND 14. ‘Coat’
Robert Brokenmouth & the Hell With You, 2009
***The two selections from Robert’s own record were made by Sam Kinchin-Smith. Inside Outdoors, by Robert Brokenmouth & the Hell With You, can be purchased direct from Robert at rbrokenmouth@yahoo.com