Now and Then

Now and Then Artist: Sickidz
Label: Steel Cage
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 696532003123
EAN: 0696532003123
ASIN: B0000CFYQ1


Release Date: 2005-05-03

Now and Then


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Tracks:

  1. 1,2,3,4, Die Die Die
  2. (At The) Hot Club
  3. If The Flys Are Alive
  4. Wasn't Born To Work
  5. Springtime For Hitler
  6. 1,2,3,4, Die Die Die (Live)
  7. (At The) Hot Club (Live)
  8. I'm Cramped
  9. Springtime For Hitler (Live)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cramps Farm Club.......2005-12-09

The name "Sickidz" has crossed my radar several times over the years, popping up in fanzines like "Maximum Rock & Roll" and "Flipside," but I wasn't aware they danced to the beat of the living dead, mining the same low-budget monster movies, dark alleys, dead-end watering holes, and fetish magazines for inspiration as The Cramps. Their "I Could Go To Hell For You" EP was even produced by Lux, Poison Ivy and friends. And to think I had them pegged as just another faceless hardcore outfit...

The Sickidz are from Philadelphia and kicked around the City of Brotherly Love from the late 70's until 1984. In 1999, with obviously nothing better to do, original members Mick Cancer (vocals), Rich Lustre (drummer turned guitarist), and Tim Trauma (bass) put the band back together, adding Sir Robert Emmett Bell (guitar, piano, violin) and Nurse Betty Gee (drums, vocals). In 2002, these middle-aged blood farmers entered a recording studio for the first time in almost two decades and some of the results comprise the "now" part of "Now And Then." The "then" portion of the disc is four songs recorded live at Philly's Starlite Ballroom in August 1980, three of which are also represented by the new studio tracks. Stay with me now...

Maybe it's just me, but I think I hear opportunity not just knocking, but kicking in the door. With several years between Cramps albums now becoming the norm, there's a gap in the psychobilly marketplace the Sickidz need to jump in and fill quickly. "1,2,3,4, Die Die Die," "(At The) Hot Club," "Wasn't Born To Work," (a Nomads cover) and, especially "If The Flys Are Alive" all pulsate, throb, and ooze with the rumbling, reverb-drenched racket made famous by Erick Purkhiser and Kristy Wallace (aka Lux Inteior and Poison Ivy - save your "no-lifer" comments for another time) when Detroiter Bryan Gregory was still in the band, playing a polka-dotted Flying V. Two live version of Mel Brooks' "Springtime For Hitler" may be two more than necessary, though.

Music Album:

  1. Fill 'er Up & Go ~ Finks
  2. Modern Artillery ~ The Living End
  3. Cowboys and Indians ~ The Jeevas
  4. Soliloquy for Lilith ~ Nurse with Wound
  5. Chanson Pour L'auvergnat
  6. Flabby Road, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists
  7. Hitsville ~ The Brood
  8. Parts: Unknown Weight: Unknown ~ St. James Stars
  9. So Long Sarcasm ~ Radio Years
  10. Grand Jacques

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Music Album

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Solo ~ Barney Kessel

Creole Belles ~ New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

In Your Face ~ Kingdom Come

The Number Ones: Rock It Up ~ Various Artists

Unorthodox ~ Edge of Sanity

Con Solo Pensarlo ~ Axelle Red

L' Idole des Jeunes ~ Johnny Hallyday

Undine Aria Op Theme ~ Yui Makino

Healing Sound Box Set ~ Various Artists

Chryso Paketo '98 ~ Various Artists