Take out the cheesy covers and the campy stereotypical 60's originals, you've got yourself a Punk Rock record. These guys had jet black moptops, all wore one black glove, in an all black garb.
Trouble,
Wrong,
People In Me and
Masculine Intuition are fast fuzzed out punk numbers with flirtations of psychedelia -- it's 1966 after all. Where the real money lies is on hit track
Talk Talk, no psychedelia, no hippie bullsh*t, this is the real deal, fast, angry and loud. The lyrics describe a degenerate who left his child, his reputation is "something more than wild," his name is "Really Mud," he has to hide his face, "or go some other place"; all this because of a life filled with lies and deceit, it eventually gets so bad, he takes off, washes his hand of all the damage he's done. For a hit tune the theme is not only dark, it's sympathetic to criminalesque anti-social behaviour, makes me think of the Hell's Angels 1% ers. I probably think that because Lester Bangs had a funny story about a homosexual biker obsessed with this song, only able to commit heterosexual activities while his 45 of
Talk Talk is being played over and over, what this story suppose to mean or why I mentioned it I have no idea, but it's something that struck Bangs so it struck me! Everyone better
Turn On The Music Machine, because I doubt these guys would let you turn it off.
