Electric Frankenstein “Action High” 1998. One Louder Records. It’s Electric Frankenstein season! We’re heading to our first Halloween event of the year tonight so I’m spinning one of the best garage punk records of the 90′s, Electric Frankenstein’s fourth full-length LP Action High (released in the UK; in the US they released the same record as Sick Songs in ‘97 – the UK version has one extra track, “Frustration,” a cover originally by Crime in 1977). The opening title track “Action High” is one of my favorite songs of the 90′s garage punk era, but the rest of the album has so many high points: “I’ll Be Standing On My Own,” “Not With U,” “Learn to Burn,” “Back at You,” “Clockwise” and the cover of “Out There” originally by F-Word in 1978. Really just the whole damn album: relentless high energy, crashing guitars with speed-metal solos, chest-rattling bass and growling vocals. Perfect for Halloween.