Lipstick Killers

Lipstick Killers was Punk/Garage Rock band from Sydney, Australia formed around 1978 from the ashes of The Psycho Surgeons. Lipstick Killers blazed a trail in late ‘70s post-Radio Birdman Sydney before gigging with the likes of the Gun Club and the Flesh Eaters in Los Angeles where they crashed and burned in 1981. The Lipstick Killers released just one single in their life time – the perfect ’79 Deniz Tek-produced pairing of “Hindu Gods of Love” and ”Shakedown USA” on their own Lost in Space Records and Greg Shaw’s Voxx Records, but a posthumous live album and a couple of archival releases followed. It was all incredible. The Lipstick Killers’ enigmatic and high-energy sound – heavily inspired by the Stooges and the ‘60s psychedelic Punk sounds of bands like the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watchband – bridged the gap between Radio Birdman and subsequent Sydney groups like the Sunnyboys (whose first-ever show was opening for the Lipstick Killers), Lime Spiders, Hoodoo Gurus and the Psychotic Turnbuckles. And of course they anticipated generation after generation of other bands with similar things in mind, right up to today’s ‘60s-inspired freaks like The Straight Arrows, The Living Eyes and Thee Oh Sees.

Mesmerizer (1984)

01 - Hindu Gods Of Love
02 - Driving The Special Dead
03 - Bongo Flip
04 - Strange Flash
05 - Let's Talk About Girls
06 - Sock It To Me Baby
07 - Dying Boy's Crawl
08 - Twilight Of The Idols
09 - I've Got Levitation
10 - Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go
11 - Out Of Our Tree
12 - Liquor Fit

Strange Flash: Studio & Live '78-'81 (2021)

CD 01:
01 - Hindu Gods Of Love (Lost In Space 45)
02 - Shakedown USA (Lost In Space 45)
03 - Sockman (Mixdown Studio Demo)
04 - Pensioner Pie (Mixdown Studio Demo)
05 - Teen Police (Mixdown Studio Demo)
06 - Hindu Gods Of Love (Mixdown Studio Demo)
07 - Rot In Love (Mixdown Studio Demo)
08 - Accidents (Mixdown Studio Demo)
09 - Shakedown USA (Live In Adelaide)
10 - Dying Boy's Crawl (Live In Adelaide)
11 - Master's Words (Live In Adelaide)
12 - Bully (Live In Adelaide)
13 - Teen Police (Live In Adelaide)
14 - Wild Weekend (Live In Adelaide)
15 - I've Got Levitation (Live In Adelaide)
16 - Mercy Killer (Live In Adelaide)
17 - Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go (Live In Adelaide)
18 - Human Crash (Live In Adelaide)
19 - Crush On You (Live In Adelaide)
20 - Hindu Gods Of Love (Live In Adelaide)
21 - Head Off (Live In Adelaide)
22 - Sock It To Me, Baby! (Live In Adelaide)
23 - Sockman (Live In Adelaide)
24 - Horizontal Action (Live In Adelaide)

CD 02:
01 - New Hard Fun (Trafalgar Demos)
02 - Mesmerizer (Trafalgar Demos)
03 - Driving The Special Dead (Trafalgar Demos)
04 - Bongo Flip (Trafalgar Demos)
05 - Twilight Of The Idols (Trafalgar Demos)
06 - Strange Flash (Trafalgar Demos)
07 - Hide & Seek (Trafalgar Demos)
08 - Date With A Thing (Trafalgar Demos)
09 - Liquor Fit (Trafalgar Demos)
10 - Dying Boy's Crawl (Live In LA)
11 - Driving The Special Dead (Live In LA)
12 - Bongo Flip (Live In LA)
13 - Strange Flash (Live In LA)
14 - Twilight Of The Idols (Live In LA)
15 - I've Got Levitation (Live In LA)
16 - Date With A Thing (Live In LA)
17 - Sock It To Me, Baby! (Live In LA)
18 - Shakedown USA (Live In LA)
19 - Pharmaceutical Au-Go-Go (Live In LA)
20 - Out Of Our Tree (Live In LA)
21 - Liquor Fit (Live In LA)
22 - Psycho Surgeons - Horizontal Action (Wallaby Beat 45)
23 - Psycho Surgeons - Wild Weekend (Wallaby Beat 45)
24 - Psycho Surgeons - Falling Apart (Rehearsal)
25 - Psycho Surgeons - Crush On You (Rehearsal)

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