Album Overview
The Males with the Golden Gonads: Play The Males with the Golden Gonads and different Misses (Spinout Nuggets)
12” Vinyl (Ltd to 300)
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Misplaced, legendary Storage-Trash / Surf-Beat combo from the Medway lastly see the discharge of their album on vinyl. Largely instrumental, primarily covers, The Males With The Golden Gonads was the brainchild of Tim Webster who sadly left this world on 20 June 2020… The seventieth launch on Spinout Nuggets is stable gold says Ged Babey.
I’d argue that this is likely one of the greatest Storage/Trash albums you’ll ever hear by what is basically one of the crucial derided of musical teams by (us) music snobs: the covers band.
Not that The Males with the Golden Gonads have been a lame wedding ceremony reception band, enjoying variations of ‘the hits’. Fairly the alternative. They have been a storage band in love with the previous rock’n’roll classics and obscurities that they loved enjoying.
The opening Hawaii 5-0 is filled with bum notes however is totally life-affirming, ending with a battle between guitar, saxophone and drums to dominate proceedings.
At occasions on this stable gold, good piece-of-trash album, the music, slightly than the precise musicians, sounds drunk. Giddy, sped-up, grinning like a loon, delirious and completely happy. Add alcohol to the listening expertise and it’s unbeatable, dance across the kitchen stuff.
Produced by Billy Infantile and recorded in Crimson Studios in Kent in 1990 and 1991 copies of those recordings have been out there to these in-the-know for a while, however by no means formally launched.
I first seen The Males with the Golden Gonads cowl model of the Shadows traditional The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt on YouTube below the dyslexic working title ‘Fickle Cunt’. That was sufficient or me. I knew I used to be gonna love this band.
It’s not simply stinging, uncooked storage variations of the tremolo twang of the Shadows and the sax’n’surf of the Hawaii 5-0 theme and the compulsory Pipeline. An instrumental tackle Oscar Brown Jnr’s The Work Music is a pure garage-mod dancefloor delight as is Lee Dorseys Experience Your Pony bringing an nearly Well-known Flames vibe to the Medway.
Sounds Incorporateds Theme From Crane is a type of archetypical Sixties themes that accompanies footage of a celebration scene from a film of the time and reveals a kinship with the early James Taylor Quartet.
The Small Faces Glad Boys, Glad is one other worthy of James Taylors bunch solely with sax changing the Hammond, and an ideal (unstated) introducing every member of the band part the place every instrument has just a few seconds within the highlight.
The Batfink Theme is one other sax and swagger magnificence that walks like Peter Gunn and talks like a storage John Barry – if what I imply.
That is only a jam-packed, continuous occasion of an album.
So, who have been the mysterious Gonads, other than native legend Tim Webster?
Tim made loads of racket in his time, largely with The Sputniks (releasing a ten” album in 1986), Timmy Tremolo and The Tremolons (who featured on three of compilations on Billy Infantile’s Hangman Information), Johnny Gash and lots extra!
The Males With The Golden Gonads additionally included Tim’s brother Stephen on saxophone, with Russ Baxter (Part, The Treasures Of Mexico, The Discords, and presently Secret Affair) on drums, Tony Prepare dinner (The Gravediggers, The Fugitives) on bass, Presun Amin (Envy) on organ, and Dave Gibbons on trumpet, a few of which had additionally performed with Tim in The Tremolons.
This album accommodates fourteen of these recordings, which incorporates eleven of the band’s favorite songs to cowl, and three of Tim Webster’s originals (Scorching Fish Yoghurt, The Woman with the Golden Gash and The Males with the Golden Gonads).
The Males with the Golden Gonads might have had a jokey identify, however made some significantly inspirational music. Uncooked, live-in-the-studio Fifties/Sixties occasion music which ripped the Area/Time Continuum a brand new arsehole on the daybreak of the 1990’s.
And that’s me being goal… I’ve lower out all of the exaggeration…
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