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Artist: XEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-09-18
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not
- Johnny Hit And Run Paulene
- Soul Kitchen
- Nausea
- Sugarlight
- Los Angeles
- Sex And Dying In High Society
- The Unheard Music
- The World's A Mess; It's In My Kiss
- I'm Coming Over (Demo)
- Adult Books (Demo)
- Delta 88 (Demo)
- Cyrano De Berger's Back (Rehearsal)
- Los Angeles (Dangerhouse Version)
Free Music Notes for Los Angeles
Free Music Review: Street Life in the Shadows of High Society
Hit: 5 Stars
In a few seconds more than 28 minutes, X revolutionized the American punk movement and delivered incredible punch to the emerging West Coast sound.
Produced by Ray Manzarek - who also plays organ - the 1980 release had nine selections and featured the unique vocal interplay between Exene Cervenka and bassist John Doe, with the rhythm pounded out by drummer DJ Bonebrake and guitar licks from Billy Zoom.
The sizzling cover of the Doors' Soul Kitchen is alone worth the price of admission. Johnny Hit and Run Pauline, Los Angeles, Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not and Sex and Dying in High Society are landmark originals. There are five bonus tracks that brings the total CD time to nearly 40 minutes.
The California punk scene was smashing into gear as the East Coast version was nearly finished imploding. X shows the way for the new wave of punk that valiantly kept the movement alive through music chronicling street life in the shadows of high society.
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Steeped in poetry and class issues, X was the first L.A. punk band to fully incorporate a dark West Coast sensibility. Singer/lyricists/spouses John Doe and Exene Cervenka forged a stray-cat approach to vocal harmonies while spieling reports on crash-pad sex and drugs, casual hatred, and the occasional spotting of the "idle rich." Full-powered and intelligent, X's sound also spotlighted Billy Zoom, a pompadoured guitarist schooled by Gene Vincent, and flexible drummer D.J. Bonebrake. Los Angeles, the first of four productions by ex-Door Ray Manzarek, made an excellent case for the group, though its ambitions were to be quickly outstripped by the evolving personal takes of Doe and Cervenka. For the most part, the album is fast, hard, and fleet, like the motorcycles Zoom loved: "Your Phone's Off the Hook," "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline," the title track, and a Ramones-style cover of the Doors' "Soul Kitchen" are touchstones that reach beyond their era. Only "The Unheard Music," a turgid bit of suburbia-bashing, mars the original LP, which is augmented on this reissue by five bonus tracks that bring the running time close to 40 minutes. --Rickey WrightAlternative Rock Music CDs
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