The Vinyl Ape 🦧

RED KROSS
Phaseshifter
2020 U.S. reissue

Starting off my Sunday morning with another essential #90s classic.

This had never been released on vinyl in the U.S. (just a 1993 Europe pressing existed) until Jack White’s Third Man Records righted that awful wrong with this killer reissue.

“Lady In The Front Row”, “Jimmy’s Fantasy”, “Crazy World”, “After School Special”…. all absolute gems.

Although they had been at it a long while when this hit (they were teenagers when Born Innocent came out in ‘82!), this will always be my favorite Red Kross record.

Neurotica, Third Eye, Show World, everything else are ALL killer.

But they ain’t Phaseshifter.

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Mar 1 at 5:06pmWeb
Show threaddonutage (Bill Cole)Mar 1
@TheVinylApe I only have a couple Redd Kross songs in my collection, from various compilations. They're another of those bands that have floated at the edge of my awareness for a long time but I've never committed to investigating. I think maybe I've always been prejudiced against their name, which looks like something a bad hair metal band might choose. I'm a shallow man in some ways.
Show threadThe Vinyl Ape 🦧Mar 1

@donutage lol.
They morphed over the years.
As kids, they started out as a punk band.
From the start, they’ve evolved through psych, glam, power-pop, pure rock n roll.

Listening to them from the very beginning chronologically from album to album is fascinating.
An exercise worth doing, dude.