Don’t Touch The Bang Bang Fruit Anagram - CDMPSYCHO38 Go Buddy Go - Midnight People - Low Livin’ Daddy - Your Worst Nightmare - Wildkat Ways / Repo Man - Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit - Crack Me Up - Shakey Snakey - Psycho Kat - Let's Go - Revenge Of El Trio Los Bastardos - Go Buddy Go (Wonkey Donkey Mix) - Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit (Manky Monkey Mix) - Dateless Nights - Corpse Grinder After the success of “Sewertime Blues” in 1986, it reached 9 in the indie charts, Fenech came back the following year with a new line-up consisting of ex-Coffin Nails Toby Griffin on drums and Arms Malone on bass, and a new platter called “Don’t Touch The Bang Bang Fruit” one of their best and most diverse album to date. It starts with a total appropriation of The Stranglers “Go Buddy Go”, takes a detour by the hillbilly inspired “low Livin’ Daddy” with harmonica and ends with the Hank Marvin meets Ennio Morricone instrumental “Revenge Of El Trio Los Bastardos”. In between, Fenech, contrary to many followers, remembered the rockabilly roots of psychobilly with a cover of “Wildkat Ways” already sung by Nigel Lewis in the early days of the band and the frenetic boogie “You Crack Me Up” previously heard on Live 1. The production is perfect, full of little find to set the ambiance, slide guitar, cow bell and notice the fine use of the acoustic rhythm guitar on “Let’s go” and “Revenge…”. The listeners goes from the haunting “Your Worst Nightmare” to the funny title track via the menacing “Repo Man”. This reissue contains the 12” mixes of “Bang Bang Fruit” and “Go Buddy Go”, which for some obscure reasons weren’t on the Anagram Single Collection, and two B-sides : a fantastic cover of “Dateless Night” and a Fenech’s own good enough to be a A-side called “Corpse Grinder”. By 1987, despite the massive arrival of new bands, the Meteors were still the Kings of Psychobilly. The Radioactive Kid         The Lost Album Raucous Records – RaucCD144 I Don't Worry About It - Your Wildkat Ways - Maniac - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down - Ain't Takin' A Chance - Psycho For Your Love - The Room - Love Me - Red Headed Woman - Long Blond Hair - Haunt You Baby Rock - Your Baby Blue Eyes - Honey Roll - Domino - Drowning All My Sorrows - Crazy Crazy Lovin' Psychobilly fans and radioactive kids knew the existence of this recordings.for years. Those were demos paid by EMI in 1980, when the young Meteors were looking for a contract, before Island got the deal. And, finally, nearly 25 years after the sessions took place, Raucous got the right to reissue them. This the original line-up (Fenech/Lewis/Robertson) halfway in their mutation of rockabilly to psychobilly. This ain’t no longer the clean sound you’ll find on the “Alligator recordings” (My Baby Loves Me, Go Away, Crazy Love) but not yet the sound of “Meteor Madness” or “In Heaven”. Songs like Long Blonde Hair, Domino or Red Headed Woman are true (and wild) rockabillies while you can hear the seeds of psychobilly on Meteors’ songs like Psycho For Your Love, The Room and You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down. It’s very interesting to compare this demos with the definitive version recorded on later albums and ep’s. The drums are lighter here for example, but you know rockabilly will never be the same after that. “Your Wildkat Ways” and “Crazy Crazy Lovin’” sung by Lewis will resurface later on albums but this time sung by Fenech. This album gives you a chance to see what psychobilly is. Just compare Johnny Burnette’s “Sweet Love On my Mind” on this demos to the version the band plays on “Monkey’s Breath” to understand. A great album, indeed, you even have a blues (Honey Roll). So, as you - clever reader - have already understood, this is essential listening. More than music, history. The Radioactive Kid