Release Date: 23 October 2020
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064010982
Genres: Rock  
Release Date: 23 October 2020
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064010982
Genres: Rock  
Description
Formed from putrefying remnants of The Germs, The Consumers, The Bags, The Gun Club, and The Screamers among other L.A. punk outfits, 45 Grave were arguably the first American Goth/deathrock band and inarguably one of the best. Fronted by the Exene-meets-Barbarella vocal and visual stylings of Dinah Cancer (still one of the greatest stage names in a punk rock genre
full of 'em), 45 Grave also featured Paul B. Cutler on guitar, Don Bolles on drums, Rob (Ritter) Graves on bass, and Paul Roessler on keyboards, and from that all-star line-up came 1983's Sleep in Safety, their lone studio release
and only recording with the band's original members. Probably most famous for the first appearance of the horrifyingly graphic, true-crime track "Partytime," the single version of which was subsequently cut in 1985 and featured on The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, Sleep in Safety also offered the early MTV track "Evil" and the band "theme song" "45 Grave" among other blandishments for those who like their rock and roll with a side of the macabre. For our Real Gone Music exhumation of this classic record, we
have "embalmed" a very special edition, preserving the original album's gatefold edition complete with lyrics and adding a custom inner sleeve drawn from the band's very rare "A Tale of Strange Phenomena" press release—limited edition of 450 in green & black marble vinyl! Folks have been dying for this one!
Tracklisting
Tyketto
X-Ray Spex
Loudon Wainwright Iii
Petula Clark
The Donnas
Tiny Tim
Henry Franklin
Stephen J. Kalnich & Friends
Wishbone Ash
The Pretty Things
Rick Wakeman
Mott The Hoople
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Gentle Giant
Blackfield
Sam Tinnesz