I didn't ask to review this CD. I didn't even know it was up for review or even released. I just got it plopped through my maw's front door. Now since I was forced to move back in with my maw, I haven't had anything through to review and she didn't know I did reviews. She found the news very exciting. Her excitement, however, just waned a moment ago when I actually started playing the CD. So it's passed the first test. My maw doesn't like it. My dog Charlie seems to have taken an interest however.
As the title would lead you to believe this is a bit of a "best of..." but that's not quite true. There are a total of six new tracks on it and a few rare b-sides and unreleased numbers, a live CD and some extra computer type stuff. A fairly bold move from Berlin's finest but for a band that's spent 20 years traversing the seedy underworld of psychobilly we'd all have been disappointed if we were given a collection of songs we'd all heard before. It's less of a "best of..." and more of a thank you to their fans of the last 20 years.
Of the tracks on the studio CD
Rusty Nails,
Dirty City and
Crack The Box in particular stick out but it's fucking
Mad Sin we're talking about here people: it's all the dogs bollocks. Their performance of
Speak No Evil is a stand out track and
I Shot The Sheriff on the live CD is also worthy of note but, once again, no track fails to hit the mark. This is an album every psychobilly fan should own: Every psycho should own everything by them. Even my dog thinks so.
"Bad taste never sounded so good..."
20 Years In Sin Sin is available now on I Used To Fuck People Like You In Prison Records
http://www.madsin.de http://www.myspace.com/madsin http://www.peoplelikeyourecords.com
