HOLLYWOOD BRATS CD Promo. RARE!! Years ahead of the Hanoi Rocks & the New York Dolls. Mother. Fucking. Beast.Check all samples.

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Hollywood Brats – Hollywood Brats
Label: Cherry Red – CMRED 106
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk, Glam

Track list ▼
1 Chez Maximes 3:47
2 Another School Day 3:13
3 Nightmare 3:47
4 Empty Bottles 0:41
5 Courtesan 3:56
6 Then He Kissed Me 3:14
Written-By – Spector/Greenwich/Barry*
7 Tumble With Me 3:55
8 Zurich 17 3:05
9 Southern Belles 2:43
10 Drowning Sorrows 3:26
11 Sick On You 5:09

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cherry Red
Copyright (c) – Cherry Red
Recorded At – Olympic Studios

Bass – Wayne Manor
Drums – Lou Sparks*
Guitar, Vocals – Brady*
Piano, Organ, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Casino Steel
Producer – Hollywood Brats
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion – Andrew Matheson
Written-By – Matheson* (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 11), Steel* (tracks: 1, 3 to 5, 7, 10, 11)

Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England, December 1973, January 1974

Barcode: 5 013929 110625

1994 UK CD reissue of 1973 album (originally released in 1980). Formed in 1972 the Hollywood Brats were Punk long before the term was invented. Dressed in make-up & women's blouses they sought to shock, whilst making the music they wanted to make. The packaging for this CD has been lovingly assembled with biographies from both vocalist Andrew Matheson & guitarist Brady plus all the lyrics. The digital mastering was undertaken by keyboard player Casino Steel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely real glam -- frill, bite, and guitar,
You will not hear a better example of what glam, even as opposed to glitter, represents. The Hanoi Rocks guys are familiar with this, of course, and you will hear the similar New York Dolls vein, but this is prettier (and more cunning) and absolutely catchy, actually quite pleasant. "Sick on You," "And Then He Kissed Me," and "Tumble With Me," the titles alone say it all. The musicianship is here, and so is the camp...an intense romp.

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5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS ALBUM RIGHT NOW.,
I was eagerly awaiting this album, and when it arrived in the mail today I quickly popped it in my stereo. Holy Cow. From the first tinkering of the piano on the intro to the last note of the final track, I was in awe. Did the Brats rip off the New York Dolls? Who knows. While the Brats can be compared to the Dolls on many levels, there is a punk like snottiness to the Brats that isn't as obvious with the Dolls. There is not one weak track on this CD. Buy this CD immediately. This is rock and roll.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute groin kicking, cheek/... kissin' muzak,
Ok a lot has been written about The Brats, they have become icons of a music age long gone, but not forgotten. Often compared to the New York Dolls, no way, the Brats have their own style, more raunchy, punchy and grab yer by the balls. Yes they were Punk (if that's the term) before it was invented and long before Johnny Rotten & Co were learning joined-up writing! Matheson's vocals come across as a mixture of Ray Davis and Jagger with a hint of someone else who's name escapes me. Some of the high notes (and bum notes) don't quite make it, but along with the rough n' ready mix it adds to the charm! Without doubt the driving force of the Brats is guitarist Brady, a true talent slashing and raunchy at the same time subtle guitar playing but showing no mercy. The rythmn section (for you dumbos out there, that's bass and drums) drive it all to the limit. Listening to Brats songs covered by other artists I can only say forget it, the originals are best. The Boys rendition of Sick On You is like a flacid member in comparison!
This album is unique, it should be in every one's collection.

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In England 1972 the Hollywood Brats were shopping at thrift stores for huge platform boots, feather boas, women's blouses, applying tons of makeup and nail polish and banging out fast paced rockers. Meanwhile over the water The New York Dolls were doing the same. Of course the Dolls went down in history getting all the plaudits and a good record deal with Mercury before royally fucking up. The Brats however got nothing except a record deal with some Mafiosi care of Keith Moon who then refused to release their record. Unsurprisingly the Brats aren't well known except to the punk cognoscenti.

Apart from singer Andrew Matheson (who came over from Canada in 1971 to form a band) there was ES Brady (Guitar) Wayne Manor (Bass) Casino Steel (Piano), Louis Sparks (drums). While the Dolls built a scene around the Mercer Arts Centre and Max's and were getting publicity The Brats had no chance building anything similar in the UK.

Andrew Matheson. The Brats were always being booed offstage - sometimes even beaten up by all these people who only ever wanted to hear Barry White or Billy Paul. They never wanted fast rock 'n' roll music...We went round every record company, even the small ones and all they kept saying was that rock 'n' roll music was dead and that that kind of raunchy music would never come back.*

Though aware of the Dolls, the Brats didn't set out to copy them though bands had obvious similarities, visually and sonically. All the songs were written by Matheson and Steel, bar their cover of 'Then He Kissed Me'. In those days a man singing lyrics like those were outrageous.

With no takers The Brats signed the worst possible record deal and recorded an album in 1973. The LP was produced by Matheson and featured only one slow song, 'Drowning Sorrows'. which is a like the Stones doing 'Love In Vain'. The rest of the album was fast rockers. Also on the album was the pre punk classic 'Sick On You.'

Amazon review: This is the way British Glam should have been headed. Comparisons with the Dolls are fair enough but these tracks stand up on their own and sound suitably trashy and melodic. Anyone who enjoys the trashing punky glam that the Dolls, Hanoi Rocks and others play will love this ... with an especially British tinge.

With little media interest and their record company refusing to release anything the band split acrimoniously but not before Steel and Matheson stole the tapes.

"Then he kissed me" is also available in this rare compilation LP:
http://www.yperano.com/content/we-do-em-our-way-lp-1980-compilation-cove...