VICTIMS, THE 'All Loud On The Western Front' (CD) (Import) 

This could be a hell of a great series that Timberyard is doing here...last issue we had a reissue of the earliest Scientists stuff that was totally brilliant, and now here's Perth's Victims with a batch of songs recorded in 1977 and 1978. These 8 tracks don't hit quite the highs of the Scientists record; there's a lot of fairly standard sounding pogo punk and nothing approaching the hooks that a song like "Pissed On Another Planet" have, but it's still a lot of fun to hear a band that was such a big influence for a lot of what followed in Australia without having to pay ridiculous prices of $100 or more for a single (a price I've seen asked more than once!). "Television Addict" is the only song here that I already knew (from a bootleg compilation called Where Birdmen Flew from a few years back), and it's probably the best track on this record, though "Disco Junkies" is also cool with the band stretching out into a long and fairly adventurous (for the time, at least) bit of guitar noise. This record doesn't stand too strongly on its on, but as a piece of roots history it's real nice to have.

Weight: 100.00 g