Lipstick Killers Strange Flash - Studio & Live '78-'81 CD

Hindu Gods are calling-Grown Up Wrong! Records is thrilled beyond belief to present the long-awaited anthology of material by the legendary Lipstick Killers, who blazed a trail in late '70s post-Radio Birdman Sydney before gigging with the likes of the Gun Club and the Flesh Eaters in Los Angeles, where they crashed and burned in 1981. The Lipstick Killers released just one single in their life time-the perfect '79 Deniz Tek-produced pairing of "Hindu Gods of Love" and "Shakedown USA" on their own Lost In Space Records and Greg Shaw's Voxx Records-but a posthumous live album and a couple of archival releases followed. It was all incredible. All that material is included here, as is a plethora of additional stuff, all from the best-available sources (mostly original tapes). The Lipstick Killers' enigmatic and high-energy sound-heavily inspired by the Stooges and the '60s psychedelic punk sounds of bands like the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watchband-bridged the gap between Radio Birdman and subsequent Sydney groups like the Sunnyboys (whose first-ever show was opening for the Lipstick Killers), Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus and the Psychotic Turnbuckles. And of course they anticipated generation after generation of other bands with similar things in mind, right up to today's '60s-inspired freaks like The Straight Arrows, The Living Eyes and Thee Oh Sees.

1. Hindu Gods of Love 2. Shakedown USA (Lost in Space/Voxx 45 - 1979 - Produced By Deniz Tek) 3. Sockman 4. Pensioner Pie 5. Teen Police 6. Hindu Gods of Love (Demo) 7. Rot in Love 8. Accidents (Mixdown Studio Demos -1978) 9. Shakedown USA 10. Dying Boy's Crawl 11. Master's Words 12. Bully 13. Teen Police 14. Wild Weekend 15. I've Got Levitation 16. Mercy Killer 17. Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go 18. Human Crash 19. Crush on You 20. Hindu Gods of Love 21. Head Off 22. Sock It to Me - Baby! 23. Sockman 24. Horizontal Action (Live in Adelaide - May 1979) 25. New Hard Fun 26. Mesmerizer 27. Driving the Special Dead 28. Bongo Flip 29. Twilight of the Idols 30. Strange Flash 31. Hide ; Seek 32. Date with a Thing 33. Liquor Fit (Trafalgar Demos 1980 - Produced By Lobby Loyde) 34. Dying Boy's Crawl 35. Driving the Special Dead 36. Bongo Flip 37. Strange Flash 38. Twilight of the Idols 39. I've Got Levitation 40. Date with a Thing 41. Sock It to Me - Baby! 42. Shakedown USA 43. Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go 44. Out of Our Tree 45. Liquor Fit (Live in Los Angeles - 1981) 46. Psycho-Surgeons - Horizontal Action 47. Psycho-Surgeons - Wild Weekend (Wallaby Beat 45 -1978) 48. Psycho-Surgeons - Falling Apart 49. Psycho-Surgeons - Crush on You (Rehearsal - 1976)