0009 - 45 Grave

Another band I have only the one track by are 45 Grave. Riboflavin Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Poly-Unsaturated Blood is the first song the band released, on the compilation album Darker Skratcher, released by the Los Angeles Free Music Society in 1980.

I like it! It's endearingly ramshackle and all round good fun. 

The band's Wikipedia page makes a big deal of their goth-punk-horror-rock pioneering, and Riboflavin... certainly is a little reminiscent of, say, The Cramps - which is undoubtedly a Good Thing. However, by the time they released their first album, Sleep In Safety, in 1983, they appear to have morphed into more of a straightforward rock (or should I say RAWK!) band, precursors of the whole LA glam metal revival set - Motley Crue, W.A.S.P., that sort of thing. I'm entirely basing this, admittedly, on the only other one of their songs I know, the 1984 single Partytime.

On the whole, I don't really think 45 Grave are my cup of tea. I do have to give credit, though, to lead singer Dinah Cancer for having one of the finest rock pseudonyms of all time, which is altogether more important than whether I actually like them.