My turn for an O/T post about psychobilly music...

Today, I was asked for suggestions for psychobilly bands for a new show on XM satellite radio called "Hee Haw Hell". I'm asking everybody here for some bands worth listening to. The sicker the better. Try not to post them here, rather send them to my work jketch@odot.org . When I submit them, I'll say they came from the HAMB. Those that know will understand.

 

to the top for the day shift.

 

I hate psychobilly with a passion, the worst genre of music to come along since New Age.

 

The Spectres

 

Johnny Cash!

 

Long Tall Texans...

 

horror pops

 

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Long Tall Texans...

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Man, those guys are clowns...I still crack up when they sing songs about Texas and talk about things like indians at the Alamo...goofy dorks using Texas in the name, come from the UK, and mess up Texas references all the time....funny thing about alot of the UK psycho/rockabilly guys I met over the years, they saw zero problem with something like those guys calling themselves long tall Texans and using CSA flags and such but if you called a guy from Wales or Scotland "English" they would have a freaknig cow about it...

The late 80's to mid 90's stuff in general was more "traditional" in approach than the mid 90's and on stuff...it was faster rockabilly with "spooky" guitars and death subject matter that most of the time was tounge in cheek...then sicko crap like Demented are Go showed up singing crap about "Anal Wonderlands" and I was out on the stuff from that point on. I never did get the tie dye or whatever you wanna call it (acid wash gone bad) jeans the psychos wore with the combat boot and the giant quiffs...all the ones I knew made fun of me for "looking" to 50s...what a trip that scene was!

I kinda liked the early Rattlers stuff with the original singer before the bass player took over...the Radium Cats from Scotland (I think) were interesting and could play. I never understood how Restless progressed like they did from neo to sorta psycho and what was up with that crazy theme record they did with the talking at the start and on the cover they were wearing suits from some high fashion designer that looked like clown suits...odd stuff...

Shakin Pyramids are still one of the best rockabilly bands from the UK that came over to the US...I can't say any one psycho band is my fav, I like little bits from different ones...

 

Don't let the "Canadian" in the title fool ya...

http://www.stumblerecords.com

Psychobilly Canadian style.

 

Last call. And, I could care less weather someone likes it or not! Don't like? Don't listen to it!

 

DEADBOLT.

 

Nekromantix!!

 

Frantic Flintstones
Gutter Demons
Tiger Army
Necromantix
Evil Devil
Milwaukee Wildmen
The Krewmwen
The Meteors
Demented Are Go
Batmobile
Speed Crazy
Koffin Kats
The Quakes
Celtic Bones
The Deadcats
Asmodeus
King Kurt
The Cryptocats
The Sharks
i'll think of more later. damn i love psychobilly!

 

they all owe a debt of gratitude to

levi and the rockats
as well as the cramps.....duh.

you should play The Phenomenauts.

"no. i only listen to cheap trick!" -homer j s

 

not really psychobilly but good satanic type ska type stuff..

mephiskapheles

listen to Doomsday, Saba, Bumble Bee Tuna, and ..well all of it is good.

-Rob "caffeine"

 

There is no American Psychobilly... Only Euros can claim it.

In America we have Rockabilly. Which is fast hillbilly/honky-tonk, which everybody want's to make a little faster and call Psychobilly.

The Rev ain't Psychobilly... He's rockabilly.

And the Necromantics just suck.

It's like "Rockabilly" isn't HARDCORE enough for the HOT TOPIC set so now they call it all "Psychobilly."

But then again who cares?

 

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You post OT stuff and you get OT responses..boo hoo.

Are the Quakes still around?

Stage Fright
Phantom Rockers
Hellbillys
Quiff Cuts (who just rocked but were more "neo" as it was called than Psycho)
Roughnecks

Lots or really cool bands were kinda on the line between true psycho and rockabilly (and the so called "neo" stuff)...any of that work for you or just strait on psycho...

I have tons and tons of vinal of this stuff...

 

Calavera
Los Gatos Locos
Godless Wicked Creeps

 

"There is no American Psychobilly... Only Euros can claim it."

I don't know, the Quakes were pretty much just like their fellow Euro label mates on Nervous and the "scene" in Europe took them in as part of it...the Atomics also flirted with that scene also and played Hemsby.

 

Psychobilly? Old news... it's all about Sillybilly.

 

No, it is all about Rapabilly...

"Lonesome train on a lonesomenizzle tracksizzle."

 

Merc, I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule...

But most "Psychobilly" from American bands sounds just like what most people call rockabilly.

"Psychobilly" is more the name of a Scene that only exsisted in Europe, than an actual type of music. In the 80's all the American "Rockabillies" had 5" pompadores formed with Pink Aquanet. "Psychobillies" were a Brit thing.

Has anyone actually listened to the Horror-Pops "Flattop" song? That sounds like every "Rockabilly" song I've heard in the last 10 years.

"Blood on the Saddle" (a band adopted by the Psychobilly scene in Europe) was more Psychobilly than they are but they called themselves.... Wait for it....

ROCKABILLY!

 

I knew a buch of people in Texas who were into the whole scene that Nervous Records kinda dominated...the style of music, the look, the whole bit...the Quakes (I can't remember, but I think they wer out of New York) and several other US bands totally had the sound down...they were rare but we had them at least in my neck of the woods.

In the early 90s (91 maybe) a buddy of mine tried to get me to go to Hemsby for the big psycho weekender but I never had the money...I think it was the October one....

I saw some and heard of some Australian bands that were into it also...but the Euro guys dominated the scene, and few of them ever came to the US...you are right about that.

In fact, being from Texas and seeing the Rev over the years I always found it interesting that the people that were into it in the 90's from the US and Europe kinda mentioned they found in odd the Rev was called psychobilly...they never had a sound that was close to that stuff...they liked it, but it was not the same.

 

Psychobilly is so five minutes ago.

I hear rapabilly is the next big thing

Seriously, I dig some of Hank III's Ass Jack stuff. Some of it's shit, but some's cool. I'd call that psychobilly, although he calls it hellbilly.

 

hey,

some good australian psychobilly - The Fireballs, Neo Creepers, Ca$ino Rumblers, Zombie Ghost Train.

As for the American Psycho Vs Euro Psycyo its all shit. Some of the hardest psycho comes from neither of these places... Brazillian Psycho is where it's at. Those guys make the yanks and poms look like a bunch of pussies.

Danny

 

the horror pops sound like rockabilly but with gwen stefani singing, I hope its good they are playing in my town next week and my friends the craze are gonna open for them at a pool hall.
I still consider the rev regular rockabilly.

 

When I got into Psychobilly music in the early 80's (in England) a lot of psychobilly bands used to play at Scooter Rallies (before they stopped bands playing, due to the amount of trouble). Some of the ones I saw - Guana Batz, Frenzy, King Kurt, Tall Boys, Restless, but as the saying goes - Only the Meteors are pure Psychobilly.

I couldn't really get into the later bands as I felt they'd lost their Rockabilly roots and sounded more like Heavy metal bands/ Oi skinhead bands

So then I went the other way and got into Rockabilly.

I saw the Rev when he came over to Australia and wasn't impressed, the back up band the Paladins were far better.

But I'd always go and see the Meteors when they played locally in the UK, as a live band they were great as were King Kurt.
So If it was me I'd be playing the early stuff on the radio, but as youre not - play whatever you like - the listeners will soon tell you whether they like it or not

 

I saw King Kurt and The Guana Batz in London in '85.
The tits and ass aspect of the King Kurt show was quite amusing and The Guana Batz had passion, but the music still sucks.
I've gotta bunch of old psychobilly records that are just gathering dust. I listen to 'em every once in a while to remind me why I should never have put them on the recoed player in the first place.

THe Cramps aren't psychobilly, The Cramps are simply The Cramps. No band has ever been that good, no band ever will be. They stand alone like a diamond on top of a pile of shit.

 

I apologize for taking up space on the HAMB in both my posts. I should have read a bit more clear in the original posters request. I should have emailed the bands to him.

 

What Nads said....