Rocket Redux

by Rocket From the Tombs

Rocket Redux cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 February 2004
  • Label: Smog Veil
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:00
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A legendary proto-punk band from 1970s Cleveland reunites to formally record their classic repertoire in a studio setting for the very first time. The album captures the raw, fiercely aggressive garage rock origins of songs that would later become staples for Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys.

Genres

Descriptors: re-recording, distorted, minimal, confrontational, DIY

Tracklist

  1. Frustration (2:20)
  2. So Cold (5:33)
  3. What Love Is (3:38)
  4. Ain't It Fun (6:20)
  5. Muckraker (4:05)
  6. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (7:18)
  7. Sonic Reducer RFTT (3:46)
  8. Never Gonna Kill Myself Again (2:13)
  9. Amphetamine (5:26)
  10. Down In Flames (2:01)
  11. Final Solution RFTT (5:40)
  12. Life Stinks (2:40)

Credits

  • Rocket From the Tombs - primary artist
  • Craig Bell - bass, vocals, written-by
  • Steve Mehlman - drums
  • Cheetah Chrome - guitar, vocals
  • David Thomas - vocals, written-by
  • Peter Laughner - written-by
  • Gene O'Connor - written-by
  • Richard Clark - written-by

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