Shannon and the Clams - Sleep Talk [Ltd Ed Gold Vinyl]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2011 album from the Oakland-based Indie band. Sleep Talk features 12 new songs that Kim Fowley and Lou Christie would have clawed each other's eyes out to get a hold of in the early '60s. Shannon can belt out fierce and fun like Wanda Jackson and Etta James going head to head in a competition for the last bottle of hooch in a song like "King of the Sea" and then play that heartbroken bad girl tryin' to do good bit that hasn't been done this well since the Tammys or the Shangri-La's in a song like "Tired of Being Bad." Cody, the bands guitarist and other main song writer/singer comes on like a crooning, hiccuping, lo-fi garage version of the aforementioned Christie. Exercising the economy and aggression of Garage Rock in ways Lou would never have imagined but with a tenderness and vocal register you know he'd appreciate.

A1 Baby Don't Do It
A2 You Will Always Bring Me Flowers
A3 The Cult Song
A4 Done With You
A5 Tired Of Being Bad
A6 Oh Louie

B1 King Of The Sea
B2 Old Man Winter
B3 Toxic Revenge
B4 The Woodsman
B5 Half Rat
B6 Sleep Talk