Gore Gore Girls: Up All Night 2002 + Get The Gore 2007

 

Gore Gore Girls are an all female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1997 by singer/songwriter Amy Gore. The band's name comes from The Gore Gore Girls, a 1972 B-movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, which is a parody of the term Go Go Girls. Formed in Detroit, MI, in

1997, Gore Gore Girls were one of the pioneers in the garage rock revival underground of the southeastern Michigan area. Their campy image and name may have suggested a poppy punk band, but the actual sound was a far more appealing blend of girl group melodies and garage rock attitude. They were originally made up of guitarist Amy Surdu, drummer Jeff Klein, and bassist Paula Regalado. In 1998, Deanne Iovan joined, taking Regalado's place when she left the band. Deb Agolli signed up to play drums and sing, and the new lineup recorded a single before unveiling Strange Girls in 2000.
                                    

Before the release the band was shaken up, as they lost Agolli after the recording, and plugged in

guitarist Melody Licious, formerly of Broadzilla, after she left Stroker Ace. Shifts within Gore Gore Girls continued for the remaining months. Iovan left in spring 2001 and drummer Monica Breen fit the skins so the band could record its third album, Up All Night. Prior to its release, Breen left and ex-Inside Out Cathy Carrell took the permanent drum seat.
                            

The band became a four-piece in 2004 with the addition of The Hammer (Marlene Hammerle) on guitar and began touring the United States extensively. Gore Gore Girls toured as direct support for The

Cramps in 2003 and 2004. The band released an EP in 2004, 7 X 4, which became part of their third album, Get the Gore. Tracks from the EP and subsequent third album received airplay on Little Steven's Underground Garage Program on Sirius Satellite Radio; the band was featured at Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival on Randall's Island, New York along with other 'garage rock' luminaries and legends The Stooges, The Strokes, The New York Dolls, The Zombies and others. Get the Gore, released in 2007 on Bloodshot Records, was recorded at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit, Michigan and received positive press from USA Today and Playboy Magazine.
                                          

Like fellow Detroit bands The White Stripes and The Detroit Cobras, the band started out struggling through the local club circuit before being "discovered" by independent record label

Get Hip Records in 1998. Their first single "Mama in the Movies" (1999) gained favourable airplay on college radio stations in Michigan, which led to recording their first full-length album Strange Girls in (2000). The second album Up All Night, was released in 2002 and received positive press from the Village Voice and Detroit Free Press. During this time the band toured Europe twice, in 2002 and in 2003, also with infrequent dates in the United States.
                            

Up All Night was released in the summer of 2002 to a good response, which reflected the excitement

that had grown in the Detroit scene from the success of scene favorites the White Stripes. The group became a favorite on Steven Van Zandt's popular Underground Garage radio program, even making an appearance alongside Iggy & the Stooges, the New York Dolls, and the Pretty Things at Van Zandt's garage rock festival in New York City. The band returned to the studio in 2004 for the 7x4 EP, followed by their full-length debut for Bloodshot Records, the Jim Diamond-produced Get the Gore in 2007.

GORE GORE GIRLS - UP ALL NIGHT 2002

                     

Bridging the gap between traditional R&B, Detroit R'n'R and old-fashioned bump and grind, here come

the First Ladies of Detroit's garage girl group sound: the Gore Gore Girls! The time has come for all hipsters, geeks, hot babes, and hodads to dance all night in worship as the Gore Gore Girls unleash their second album, Up All Night, on the unsuspecting world. Out June 01, 2002 -- the Girls of Gore let loose with their poppiest, most powerful signature girl-group/girl-gang sound ever -- with 13 scorching tracks of dirty love, each one delivered right in the kisser.
                                        

Hot on the heels of their knockout debut album Strange Girls (Get Hip Recordings, 2001), the Gore Gore Girls headed back into Jim Diamond's now legendary Ghetto Recorders in Detroit last September

to deliver the second round. Armed with nasty, loud and sweet(!) rock 'n' roll numbers, Gore guitarist/songwriter Amy Surdu added more sugar to the mix with some classic girl group covers: "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and "Standing on the Corner.” Combined with the sound of their trademark originals, Up All Night delivers the low-fi love that Gore fans crave. There are girl groups and girl gangs; the Gore Gore Girls are both. It’s rock, dance, and romance with three badass babes from Detroit. Stay Up All Night with the Gore Gore Girls!

Gore Gore Girls – Up All Night
Label: Get Hip Recordings – GH-1112CD
Format:    CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                                 

01. Astral Man    2:55
02. Automatic Love    2:38
03. I Don't Think So   (Written-By – McCoy)   2:34
04. Up All Night    2:09
05. Shotgun Wedding    1:40
06. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby  (Written-By – Goffin And King)   3:02
07. Hot Rod Breakdown    2:33
08. Cross County Lines    2:04
09. Standing On The Corner  (Written-By – Gates)   2:28
10. Atlanta    2:40
11. Your Last Chance  (Written-By – Robinson, Cooper)  3:07
12. Tell Me (I'm Your True Love)    10:47

Backing Vocals – Melody Licious, Michelle Lannoo (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11), Monica Breen, Muffy Kroha (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11), Shelby Murphy (tracks: 12)
Bass – Melody Licious
Guitar – Amy Surdu, Jim Diamond  (tracks: 6)
Organ – John Hentch (tracks: 3, 6, 9, 11)
Percussion – Monica Breen
Vocals – Amy Surdu
Written-By – A. Surdu (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12), Baetens (tracks: 7, 10, 12), Breen (tracks: 7, 12)

MP3 @ 320 Size: 90 MB
Flac  Size: 258 MB

GORE GORE GIRLS - GET THE GORE 2007

                       

In case you were wondering, yes, there is still garage rock in Detroit, and while the world's music press

has left town looking for the next big thing elsewhere, the Gore Gore Girls have proven that cool tunes, swaggering attitude, and worship of Gretsch guitars are still alive and very well indeed. Get the Gore is easily the Motor City combo's best album to date, an inspired marriage of big-beat fuzzy guitar thunder, gale-force vocals, and songs that split the difference between hard rock and the Brill Building with such élan that you'd think such things were easy.
                              

The Gore Gore Girls' lineup on Get the Gore is the strongest to be captured on record to date; Amy Gore and Hammer are an inspired guitar combo, bringing plenty of sweat and muscle to these tunes, while the rhythm section of Nicky Styxx on drums and Carol Anne Schumacher on bass deliver

the rock with plenty of velocity and no wasted movement. With producer Jim Diamond behind the controls, the Gore Gore Girls have put these songs to tape with high energy, explosive force, and a palpable sense of fun. The group's songwriting continues to impress as well, especially the fiery "Casino," the lustful and menacing "Pleasure Unit," and the hard-charging "Voodoo Doll," while the cover of the Poppy Family's "Where Evil Grows" is thankfully kitsch-free and the Dixie Cups' "All Grown Up" gets a "turned up to 11" makeover that kicks like a mule.
                                    

Best of all, Amy's vocals sound just as tough as her lyrics make her out to be, which is no small

accomplishment. Put it all together and you get an album that not only matches the fire and cranked-up spirit of the Gore Gore Girls' live show, but even goes them one better; Get the Gore is killer rock & roll that belongs in every home where the positive use of estrogen is appreciated. Turn this baby up!
                               

Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore
Label: Bloodshot Records – BS 142
Format:    CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                                     

01. Fox In A Box
02. Loaded Heart
03. All Grown Up
04. Pleasure Unit
05. Where Evil Grows
06. Casino
07. Don't Cry
08. Mary Ann
09. You Lied To Me Before
10. So Sophisticated
11. Little Baby
12. Sweet Potato
13. Voodoo Doll
14. Hammer Stomp

Bass – Carol Anne Schumacher
Drums – Nicky Styxx
Electric Piano – Michael Maltese
Lead Guitar, Guitar, Slide Guitar – Hammer
Vocals, Lead Guitar, Guitar – Amy Gore

MP3 @ 320 Size: 91 MB
Flac  Size: 221 MB