The Quadrajets “Queen of the Twist”
The Quadrajets “Queen of the Twist” b/w “Gr-Rrr” and “Justice” 1995. Sympathy for the Record Industry. Southern-fried trash-n-thrash garage rock, “Queen of the Twist” was The Quadrajets’ second single, also appearing on their first LP When I Lay My Burden Down. Lo-fi and gritty, “Queen” is exhilaratingly thrashy, but the first track on the B-side, “Gr-Rrr” is even better: a bit of ass-shaking garage funk extolling the awesomeness of a GTO. “Justice,” the second track on Side B, is an adrenaline-rush cover of Austin-based garage punks Poison 13′s “Justice” which originally appeared on their 1984 album Poison 13 on Wrestler Records. Both versions are killer with highly addictive bass grooves.
Daily (maybe) pulls from the vault: 33-1/3, 45, 78, old, older, classic, new, good, bad. Subjective. Autobiographical. Occasionally putting a record up for sale.