Paulblow's Full Review: The Space Age Playboys by Warrior Soul
Epinions community, if you trust just one of my opinions, make it this one -- the Space Age Playboys are the most exciting new rock band I've heard in the last ten years! I haven't been this excited about a band since I first heard Motorhead. Just when I was ready to declare Rock dead, shave my head, and join the monastary, along came the Space Age Playboys with their punked out, glammed up Super Rock -- just in time for the New Millenium. The Space Age Playboys are here to save us from the drab non-rock music that has dulled our ears and polluted our planet earth over the past decade.
The Playboys: Korey Clarke (ex-Warrior Soul frontman) on vocals, Johnny Jetson on guitar, Stevie Deluxe playing the sped-up '80's butt-rock beats, and Baxter Reiley holding down the low end. These guys are the coolest looking band since Hanoi Rocks, and as a band they sound like David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust with Ramones buzzsaw guitars, and a bit of KISS thrown in for good measure.
The songs are party rock songs --nothing depressing or heavy here! These tunes are catchy, melodic, and packed with enough energy to lauch a thousand space shuttles into orbit! With titles like "Buzz On", "Band Gets High", "Rock'n'roll Limo", and "Tokyo Girls Go Bang Bang", you know these guys know how to have a good time. Johnny Jetson's Marshall-driven guitars are LOUD and rocking! Korey Clarke's vocals sound like a cross between David Bowie and Ozzy Osbourne. He's not trying to bring us down, no --Korey wants us to have fun again. He sings about space, he sings about parties, he sings about excess, party girls and pills -- all done tongue slightly in cheek.
The last Warrior Soul album (before they broke up) was titled "The Space Age Playboys", and was a dramatic departure from what Warrior Soul had been doing before (slow, dirgy metal). The Space Age Playboys CD was straight ahead dirty glam rock -- and was the basis for Korey's new band, the SAPs.
The Space Age Playboys have 2 CDs out -- "New Rock Underground", and "Live in London", but unfortunately these CDs are only available as imports. They were released in Europe, where they have a huge following. Luckily, I was able to download all their songs from their site on Mp3.com (its gone now).
The future of the Space Age Playboys is uncertain, what with Korey Clarke doing a Warrior Soul reunion tour, but rumors are that a new SAP CD is in the works. Hopefully, it will be released on a major label in the U.S. --these guys deserve it -- they are that good. There has been a resurgence of glam/punk bands lately, but the Space Age Playboys are by far the best, most entertaining, most original, most rocking of them all. Keep your eyes and ears open for these masters of the New Rock Underground...
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