MICK FARREN Vampires Stole My Lunch Money lp 1978 Logo records 320 kbps Trouble coming everyday / Half price drinks / I don't want to go this way / I want to drink* / Son of a millionaire / Zombie line* / Bela Lugosi / People call you crazy* / Fast Eddie / Let me in, damn you* / (I know from) Self destruction / Drunk in the morning.
Produced by Larry Wallis.
Mick Farren : lead vocals / Larry Wallis : guitars, backing vocals / Andy Colquhoun : bass, backing vocals / Wilko Johnson : guitar on* / Alan Powell : drums / Chrissie Hynde, Sonja Kristina, Maria, R2D2 & Susie : backing vocals / Will Stallybrass : harmonica / Chas Heatherington : the machine rented to the Pink Floyd(!) .
Mick Farren — journalist, science fiction novelist, author, singer, founding member of the (Social) Deviants and Pink Fairies, Motörhead songwriter — cut his first solo album with a nascent version of the Fairies immediately upon leaving the Deviants in 1969. After spending some years writing about, rather than making, music, he returned to that side in '77 with a four-song 7- inch on Stiff that has its moments but is hardly a milestone. The following year, however, the Englishman dived back into the deep end of rock with the harrowing "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money", showing the junior nihilists just how grim, serious and personal music could be. Released at the height of the punk wave but springing from a much deeper creative well, "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" is Farren's solo masterwork. With musical assistance from Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, Chrissie Hynde and others, he dishes out a harrowingly honest collection of songs about drinking, dissolution, depression, self-destruction and desperation. About as powerful as rock gets, this nakedly painful LP is most definitely not recommended to sissies, moralists and born-again Christians. TrouserPress
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