SACRED COWBOYS

Title: Nailed To The Cross (1982-1985)
Label: Savage Beat (Australia)
Catalogue No: (sb/lsd001)
Format: CD (double album)
Release Date: 2008
Price: $ 30.00

Deluxe double CD presenting, for the first time, the seminal early work of cult '80s Australian group The Sacred Cowboys. Includes their Nothing Grows In Texas/Is Nothing Sacred? 7", their original White Records debut mini-album, the popluar posthumous We Love You album, and as a bonus, a killer live set from 1983 (originally broadcast on 3RRR) featuring a number of unreleased covers and originals.

The Sacred Cowboys gained instant notoriety when they appeared in '82, thanks to frontman Garry Gray's chainsaw-wielding antics on stage. They became one of the hottest alternative bands on the scene, and a major drawcard especially in hometown Melbourne and Sydney. Something of a post-punk supergroup (with members drawn from the original line-up of the Models and the Negatives), the Cowboys played a wild, dangerous and completely unique brand of rockn'roll inspired by the artists whose material they cover here, including Suicide, Alan Vega, Captain Beefheart, Cramps, Velvet Underground, Creedence and Alex Chilton.

Track Listing - Disc 1: (63:19 m:s)

1. Nothing Grows In Texas (Sacred Cowboys) (4:19 m:s)
2. Pay For It In The Next Life (Sacred Cowboys) (3:57 m:s)
3. Twisted Nerve (Sacred Cowboys) (4:44 m:s)
4. Bangkok (Alex Chilton) (2:29 m:s)
5. Strip Cell (Sacred Cowboys) (5:23 m:s)
6. Nailed To The Cross (Sacred Cowboys) (3:05 m:s)
7. Devotion Falls Out The Door (Murray) (3:04 m:s)
8. Run Run Run Lou Reed) (3:10 m:s)
9. Pablo Picasso (Jonathan Richman) (4:05 m:s)
10. Juke Box Baby (Alan Vega) (3:25 m:s)
11. Run Through The Jungle (John Fogerty) (5:39 m:s)
12. Five To One (The Doors) (4:19 m:s)
13. Rocket USA (Vega / Rev)(5:10 m:s)
14. Highway 61 (Bob Dylan) (4:18 m:s)
15. I Am The Walrus (Lennon / McCartney (6:12 m:s)
    Tracks 1 - 6: Off the 1983 White Label EP The Ballad of Jack Abbott
    Tracks 7 - 15: Off We Love You ... Of Course We Do (1982-1985 Manmade Records Collection)

Track Listing - Disc 2: (70:31 m:s)

1. New Kind Of Kick (Rorschach / Interior (5:00 m:s)
2. Loaded Skull (3:51 m:s)
3. Mr Ray (6:32 m:s)
4. Bangkok (Alex Chilton) (3:03 m:s)
5. Twisted Nerve (Sacred Cowboys) (5:55 m:s)
6. Pay For It In The Next Life (4:32 m:s)
7. Strip Cell (Sacred Cowboys) (5:30 m:s)
8. Nailed To The Cross (Sacred Cowboys) (4:10 m:s)
9. Click Clack (Don Van Vliet (5:02 m:s)
10. Is Nothing Sacred? (Sacred Cowboys) (6:50 m:s)
11. Slow Kill (Sacred Cowboys) (2:49 m:s)
12. Limbo Jig (Sacred Cowboys) (3:55 m:s)
13. Is Nothing Sacred? (Sacred Cowboys) (4:55 m:s)
14. The Absolute (Sacred Cowboys) (4:24 m:s)
15. Black City 2006 (Sacred Cowboys) (4:03 m:s)
    Tracks 1 - 10: Loaded Skull - 3RRR Live to Air (Seaview Ballroom - 1983)
    Tracks 11 - 15: Bonus Tracks 1984 - 2006