Back from the Grave, Volume 7
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| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1960s | |||
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| Label | Crypt | |||
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Back from the Grave, Volume 7 is the seventh installment in the Back from the Grave series of garage rock compilations assembled by Tim Warren of Crypt Records and is available on LP and CD. It was originally released in 1988 as a double-LP containing 34 tracks, and has been newly re-mastered and re-issued in 2015. Though most of the LP's tracks had appeared on volumes 3 and 4 of the Back from the Grave CD-specific sub-series (released between 1996 and 2000), in 2015, it was released on CD with the re-mastered material and closely matches the song content (and album cover artwork) of the original LP (containing all but two of the cuts on the original LP) as part of an effort to bring the LP's and CD's of the series into multi-medium coherence. In keeping with all of the entries in the series, and as indicated in the subheading which reads "Raw Blastin' Mid 60s Punk," this collection generally excludes psychedelic, folk rock, and pop-influenced material in favor of basic primitive rock and roll, usually consisting of songs displaying the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre often characterized by the use of fuzztone-distorted guitars and rough vocals.
The packaging features well-researched liner notes written by Tim Warren which convey basic information about each song and group, such as origin, recording date, and biographical sketches, usually written in a conversational style that includes occasional slang, anecdotes, humorous asides. The liner notes are noticeably opinionated, sometimes engaging in tongue-in-cheek insults directed at other genres of music. The packaging also includes photographs of the bands, and the front cover features a highly satirical cartoon by Mort Todd which once again depicts the customary revivified zombies whose ethos always demands strict adherence to what they consider to be the "one true faith" of "pure" rock & roll (i.e. with no admixture of "revisionist heresy"), and on this particular occasion they are accompanied by a very select remnant of survivors ("true" rock & roll musicians and fans accompanied by beautiful women) who have been allowed to seek refuge on rafts and be spared from the vengeful "apocalypse" (and its torrential flood of Biblical proportions, all of which typologically prefigured in earlier volumes of the BFTG series, which has been near-successfully waged against all forms of musio-cultural "heterodoxy" and its global adherents, in effect "crankin' out" a handful of "blastin'" garage tunes (from the past) in order to "clear the way" for their envisioned "retro-future," in effect reducing civilization back to a supposed "Edenic" state or "glorified stone age" and making the world "safe" for the "triumphal" return of primitive two/three-chord "caveman rock".
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