'Sure, mod is about clean living under difficult
circumstances, okay, I hear you, but sometimes you can put too much
starch in your collar. From the very origins of the modernist scene,
faces got down and dirty; box-suited and aloof in smoky Soho joints;
ruining their chukkas in rhythm & blues crowd frenzies;
dance-floors heaving with a heavy fug of hormones and hair lacquer;
the blur of adrenalin and perspiration; blocked and bloodied as
all-nighters spilt into weekends, sand in the hair and blisters in
boots. Beatles or The Stones? I'll take the latter, the swivel-hip
sex appeal that made bad girls screech, maddened and moist, torn hair
in tufts, fitful nights of turning and tossing, crying themselves to
sleep with guilty, filthy thoughts. The history of mod is sweat
soaked and ear-splitting, limbs and microphones flaying; the loudest
bands, the proudest; high-rise volume, distorted, disjointed, under
the influence, pounding twelve bar, gritty rock and roll soul music
that has influenced the groups on this compilation album; turn it up,
jump, hump, shout and get busy ... to Dirty Mod!' (Searle, Dirty Mod, (2016)).
Featuring, the Uks finest garage rock bands, The Fallen
Leaves, Dave's Doors Of Perception, and Eight Rounds Rapid. Parisian
minxes, The Buns. Swivel hip rockers, Maker, and and The Sons Of Mod.
Grunge Blues hipsters, The Monkey Gland Blues Band, The Beatniks,
King Mojo and The Get-Go, enthusiastic youthful soul from Samuel
Rogers and his band, plus another great cover version from The Third Degree, (the band that had that hit with Duffy's Mercy); Dirty Mod has little to do with the self-conscious preening of the generic spat of 'mod bands,' concentrating instead on the hard-grafting, gritty R&B outfits that splintered the boards of the original mildew stained nightclubs and jazz-bars of a scene first inventing itself in passion and sweat . This is a great compilation album.
Track listing:
1.The
Samuel Rogers Band – Liven Up.
2.The
Monkey Gland Blues Band – Shake It Down.
3.The
Third Degree – Toxic.
4.The
Buns – Thrill Me Up.
5.THE
FALLEn leaVES – Did You See Her.
6.Eight
Rounds Rapid – Bully Boy.
7.The
Get-Go – Rockin' Girl.
8.Maker
– Move Your Feet.
9.The
Beatniks – CC (Love Surprise).
10.The
Sons Of MOD – This Is Sound.
11.The
Outcrowd – Booze Monkey.
12.Dave's
Doors Of Perception – Sex & Drugs & Armed Revolution.
13.
King Mojo – Ejector Seat.
Play Loud!
