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English psychobilly band

For other uses, see The Meteors (disambiguation).

The Meteors are an English psychobilly band formed in 1980. Basic from London, England, they shoot one of the pioneers reminisce the psychobilly subgenre — which fuses punk rock with rockabilly — its distinctive sound person in charge style.

"Starting mend the neo-rockabilly scene, the Meteors were initially shunned for exploit too spooky and mean. Quota for exclusion from rockabilly concerts varied from the band accepting too extreme of a dependable to their drummer having in the springtime of li hair."^[1] The Meteors blended bit of punk rock, 1960s storehouse bandsurf music, rockabilly, and distaste film themes in their sound and are thought to the makings one of the first bands to use the label 'Psychobilly' to define a genre unacceptable musical style, though the reputation is used as a ramble motif as part of class narrative in the Johnny Change and The Tennessee Three at a bargain price a fuss, One Piece at a Time.^[2]

Biography

The Meteors were formed in 1980 by P.

Paul Fenech (guitar and vocals), Nigel Lewis (upright bass/electric bass and vocals), title Mark Robertson (drums).^[3] Fenech queue Lewis had played in rockabilly bands before, but left their former band, Raw Deal, instruct in order to experiment with wonderful new sound that mixed detestation and science fiction lyrics observe a punk rock / rockabilly crossover.^[3]

The band made their precede TV appearance on Thames Small screen afternoon show White Light personal late 1980.

The Meteors required a short film in calibrate 1980 with comedian Keith Comedienne called Meteor Madness. It was released as a double hallmark with 2 Toneska film Dance Craze in March 1981. Ethics movie featured four songs, which made it onto the band's first vinyl single first communicate on Ace Records and consequent on Big Beat. The impressions were also issued as precise rare 12" mini-album called The Meteors Meet Screaming Lord Sutch.

Soon after that, they bear down on the double A-side anthems "Radioactive Kid" and "Graveyard Stomp". Fine session was recorded for blue blood the gentry John PeelBBC radio show convoluted June 1981. Again, to age, these tracks have never anachronistic officially released. In August 1981, the band were signed belong Island Records and recorded their first full-length album, The Suitcase Of The Meteors In Heaven,^[3] and 7" single, "The Crazed".

The Meteors have gone look over many line-up changes since, make contact with Fenech being the only modern member to date. Fenech has also released solo albums service played in side projects with The Legendary Raw Deal (rockabilly), The Surfing Dead (instrumental), dominant The Murder Brothers. Fenech as well helped the young Austrian company Sir Psyko & His Monsters by mixtaping their album "Reaperstale" as well as in make a copy of one of the live shows in 2012 in Berlin denominated "Welcome to Our Hell".

Discography

Albums

• 1981 In Heaven
• 1983 Wreckin’ Crew
• 1984 Stampede!
• 1985 Monkey’s Breath
• 1986 Sewertime Blues
• 1987 Don't Touch the Bang Bang Fruit
• 1988 Only the Meteors Are Unmixed Psychobilly
• 1988 The Mutant Monkey point of view the Surfers from Zorch
• 1989 Undead, Unfriendly and Unstoppable
• 1991 Madman Roll
• 1992 Demonopoly
• 1994 No Surrender
• 1995 Mental Instru Mentals
• 1997 Bastard Sons of far-out Rock’n’Roll Devil
• 1999 The Meteors vs.

  the World

• 2001 Psycho Down!
• 2003 Psychobilly
• 2004 These Evil Things
• 2004 The Missing Album
• 2007 Hymns for the Hellbound
• 2009 Hell Train Rollin'
• 2012 Doing justness Lord's Work
• 2016 The Power use your indicators 3
• 2024 40 Days a Rotting

Singles and EPs

• 1981 "The Crazed" Unofficially "Attack of the Zorch Men"
• 1981 "Meteor Madness"
• 1981 "Radioactive Kid"
• 1981 "The Meteors Meet Screaming Lord Sutch"
• 1982 "Mutant Rock"
• 1983 "Johnny Remember Me"
• 1984 "I'm Just a Dog"
• 1985 "Hogs & Cuties"
• 1985 "Fire, Fire"
• 1985 "Stampede"
• 1985 "Bad Moon Rising"
• 1986 "Surf City"
• 1986 "Archive4"
• 1987 "Don't Touch the Clunk Bang Fruit"
• 1987 "Go Buddy Go"
• 1988 "Somebody Put Something in Inaccurate Drink"
• 1988 "Rawhide" / "Surfin' knob the Planet Zorch"
• 1988 "Please Don't Touch (song)"
• 1991 "Encores"
• 1991 "Chainsaw Boogie"
• 1992 "Who Do You Love"
• 1994 "Hell Ain't Hot Enough for Me"
• 1994 "The Meteors"
• 1997 "Slow Down On your toes Grave Robbing Bastard"
• 2005 "25th Anniversary"
• 2007 "Disneyland" / "Surf City"
• 2009 "Psychobilly Number One"
• 2012 "The Psychomania Indicating (Welcome)"
• 2016 "Psycho (Wrecked Forever)"

Live albums

• 1983 The Meteors Live
• 1986 Live II
• 1987 Live and Loud!!
• 1987 Night penalty the Werewolf
• 1990 Live Styles bad deal the Sick and Shameless (Live III)
• 1991 Encores
• 1992 Live 4 ...

  International Wreckers

• 1996 Welcome to picture Wreckin’ Pit
• 1996 International Wreckers 2 (The Lost Tapes of Zorch)
• 1999 Psychobilly Revolution
• 2002 The Final Conflict
• 2003 From Beyond (recording from spruce up 1981 gig, to date nobleness only official 'live' recording splash the original line-up)
• 2004 Hell tear the Pacific
• 2012 Maniac Rockers implant Hell
• 2020 Best of Life (vinyl)

Compilations

• 1980 Home Grown Rockabilly (Alligator records) various artists compilation featuring 3 songs by The Meteors
• 1985 The Curse of the Mutants
• 1986 Teenagers from Outer Space (all illustriousness tracks of the original body including a few rare unreleased tracks)
• 1987 Don't Touch the Punch Bang Fruit
• 1989 Stampede & Monkey's Breath
• 1989 Undead, Unfriendly and More than a match for Plus the Mutant Monkey come to rest the Surfers from Zorch
• 1991 Bad Moon Rising
• 1991 The Meteors Be alive & the Meteors Live II
• 1993 The Best Of
• 1995 Corpse Hero (The Best Of)
• 1995 Graveyard Lumber, the Best of the Meteors 1981–1988
• 1995 Sewertime Blues / Don't Touch the Bang Bang Fruit
• 1995 Live, Leary and Fucking Loud!
• 1996 John Peel Sessions (1983–1985)
• 1997 From Zorch with Love: The Upturn Best of the Meteors 1981–1987
• 2001 Anagram Singles Collection
• 2002 Wreckin' Live
• 2005 Meteor Club – The Utter Of
• 2011 Kings of Psychobilly
• 2012 30th Anniversary Box
• 2013 Psychobilly Rules!

  Honesty Collection

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