What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Scottish cartoon Punks' debut from 1978.

Humourous, rather than angry, The Rezillos fit somewhere between the Ramones with their '60s-influenced Punk, and the B-52s kitsch R&R. Almost complete adherence to the maxim that said any song longer than three minutes was self-indulgent means that there's no time to get bored during this album.

Smart, silly Punk.

This CD also contains their second, and last album Mission Accomplished...But The Beat Goes on, which was from a farewell gig the following year. This is a poorly recorded, but breathless live set that sounds like it would have been a fantastic gig. Contains a killer version of The Sweet's Ballroom Blitz.


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.