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With a flair that ultra-lounge never touches, some 1960s rockers and inbred C&W mutants excelled at derangement that disturbs and sleaze that won't let you sleep. Forget all the cute novelty poop that prepared the way for dreary "Weird Al"
Yankovic. Some material even goes beyond the bottom-drawer garage rock
resuscitated on series like "Back From the Grave."
On the stubby and ugly side, "Wavy Gravy" (Beware) unleashes an astounding
torrent of lunacy that slouches from familiar psychotic breaks like Porter Waggoner's
"Rubber Room" to murderous slobber like Moses Longpiece's "Slide Her Under the
Door" to undefinable slabs of clamor like "For Hairy Policemen" by 4 Hairy
Policemen. The sickos that assembled this contraption inserted more than a dozen
trailers for raw violence and sexploitation movies in between what passes for
music. Sure, it's vile and sexist, but the hunching frankness of "Wavy Gravy" stomps
all over the willing plastic broads and the grinning wooden studs scattered all over
the ultra-lounge.
On the baroque and bedazzled side, movie-muck cultists will be thrilled with
the release of "Vampyros Lesbos/Sexadelic Dance Party" (Motel) drawn from the
soundtracks of three prime films by Spain's master of horrortica, Jess Franco. He
parallels Russ Meyer and Roger Corman, but I've never heard a soundtrack of theirs
that equals "Vampyros Lesbos's" combination of focused and flaky. Eerie
atmospherics and off-kilter boogies alternate with the clunky sitar-rock beloved of
ultra-lounge fans, all done by the Vampires Sound Incorporation -- a couple of
German maniacs named Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab. The laughs and
thrills here are heartier than any ultra-lounge collection -- because it's guaranteed
real cheese, not Velveeta. |
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