Grand Records
2006
The Complete Stiff Recordings
About This Album
Dr. Feelgood and Stiff Records seem like the perfect match. Under the direction of Lee Brilleaux, Dr. Feelgood was perhaps the key band to push pub rock toward punk, thanks to their hard-driving, relentless rock & roll, coupled with their love of reckless rock & roll and drunken pranks, Stiff was the label that bridged pub and punk. Of course, this describes Dr. Feelgood and Stiff Records in the mid-'70s, when they were both at the beginning of their stories, but they didn't team up then: they teamed up a decade later, when Stiff was on the decline and Dr. Feelgood had metamorphosed from a tough group of rock & roll revivalists to genuine working band, soldiering on through shifts in the lineup and shifts in mainstream tastes, so they were kind of forgotten by the public at large. In other words, neither party was at their peak, so the music captured on Grand's 2005 double-disc set The Complete Stiff Recordings is not exactly what fans of either pub or punk would have in mind from merely reading the title. This is not raw, raucous, rock & roll; this is an old-fashioned band that is valiantly trying to swim with the tides of the '80s, so that means they've brought in drum machines, ratcheted up the synths and tried to sound modern even if they'd much rather be covering Johnny Cash's "Get Rhythm" and Bobby Charles' "See You Later Alligator," which they do here.
Track List

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