Artist: Stray Cats: mp3 download Genre(s): Other Rock Rock: Punk-Rock Rock & Roll Rock: New Wave Punk Discography: Rumble in Brixton (CD2) Year: 2004 Tracks: 12 Rumble in Brixton (CD1) Year: 2004 Tracks: 12 Live in Barcelona Year: 2004 Tracks: 17 Hollywood Strut (Unreleased Cuts) Year: 2001 Tracks: 15 Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81-'92 Year: 1997 Tracks: 25 A Retrospective '81-'92 Year: 1996 Tracks: 25 Something Else (Live) Year: 1994 Tracks: 15 Choo Choo Hot Fish Year: 1994 Tracks: 12 Original Cool Year: 1993 Tracks: 15 Let's Go Faster Year: 1990 Tracks: 11 Crusin' Round Sixteen Candles Year: 1990 Tracks: 24 Blast Off Year: 1989 Tracks: 10 Rock Therapy Year: 1986 Tracks: 10 Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats Year: 1983 Tracks: 10 Rant N' Rave with Stray Cats Year: 1983 Tracks: 10 Built For Speed Year: 1982 Tracks: 8 Stray Cats Year: 1981 Tracks: 12 Lonesome Tears Year: 1981 Tracks: 14 Gonna Ball Year: 1981 Tracks: 11 Rumble In Brighton Year: Tracks: 22 Rock Tokyo (live) Year: Tracks: 18 Rare Demo Year: Tracks: 10 Built For Speed (Selected Tracks) Year: Tracks: 8 The francis Scott Key group of the early-'80s rockabilly revitalization, the Stray Cats scored various giving hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a hit optic trend tailor-made for the early old age of MTV, as well as unfeigned musical chops that evoked the best players of rockabilly's original blossom. The Stray Cats were formed by guitarist/vocalist Brian Setzer in the Long Island township of Massapequa, NY, in 1979. At first gear, Setzer played rockabilly covers in a band called the Tom Cats with his drumming brother Gary and bassist Bob Beecher; however, Setzer presently abandoned that group to conjoin up with fresh rechristened school friends Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker) and Slim Jim Phantom (born James McDonnell). However, their retro '50s look and legal didn't go over well close to Long Island, and in the summer of 1980 the group headed to England, where a rockabilly revival movement was just beginning to emerge. Afterward unitary of their gigs in London, the Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock partisan for his exercise with Rockpile and as a solo artist. Edmunds offered to exploit with the group, and they entered the studio to record their self-titled debut album, released in England in 1981 on Arista. They were democratic right out of the box, grading trey straight hits that year with "Walkaway Boys," "Rock candy This Town," and "Drift Cat Strut." The follow-up, Gonna Ball, wasn't as well received, and roiled by the negative reviews, the Stray Cats distinct to return to the States and make a go of it. They signed with EMI America and in 1982 released their U.S. debut, Built for Speed, which compiled the highlights from their iI British LPs. Helped by across-the-board airplay on MTV at the stature of the anything-goes new wave era, "Sway This Town" and "Drift Cat Strut" both strike the American Top Ten, over a year subsequently their British chart peaks. As a result, Built for Speed was a left smash, and the Stray Cats were seen as avatars of retro fashion. Their s American album, Blah n' Rave With the Stray Cats, appeared in 1983 and produced another Top Ten attain in "(She's) Sexy + 17," as well as a minor Top 40 entrance in the doo wop-styled ballad "I Won't Stand in Your Way." Personality conflicts began to issue in the ways the individual members handled their newfound success; Phantom married actress (and former Rod Stewart fancy man) Britt Ekland, spell Setzer made guest appearances with stars like Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks and became the concert guitarist for Robert Plant's Honeydrippers side project. In late 1984, Setzer broke up the band amid much bad blood. Rocker and Phantom immediately teamed up with guitarist Earl Slick and recorded an album as Phantom, Rocker & Slick, spell Setzer waited a duo of geezerhood earlier cathartic his roots rock 'n' roll solo debut, The Knife Feels Like Justice. By 1986, fences had ostensibly been mended enough for the Stray Cats to reconvene in Los Angeles and record the covers-heavy Rock Therapy, which didn't sell that well. The iII returned to their respective post-Stray Cats projects, which both released albums that performed disappointingly. In 1989, they reunited once again for the album Blast Off, which was accompanied by a tour with Stevie Ray Vaughan. No yearner with EMI, the Cats entered the studio apartment with Nile Rodgers for the lusterless Let's Go Faster, issued by Liberation in 1990. 1992's Dave Edmunds-produced Choo Choo Hot Fish as well attracted little attending, and later on another covers album, Original Cool, the mathematical group called it quits once again. They have since reunited periodically for live performances. Setzer, of course, went on to spearhead the '90s swing revitalisation with his Brian Setzer Orchestra, which performed hellenic self-aggrandizing band swing and jump vapors tunes, as intimately as Setzer originals. |