Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks - Every Little Thing Goes Wrong

Their were a number of highlights to Detroit's Stroh-Down Festival last month, but Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks wild set of rockin' garage-based punk'n'soul was absolutely one of the best of the best! We grabbed this 7" EP along with Jack's Dream Killer LP (more on that shortly) but while the LP is something else entirely, this EP does its best to capture the spirit and energy of the band that we saw'n'experienced.

Jack's two tunes - "Every Little Thing Goes Wrong" and "Loser's Take All" - are classic garage monsters that you would expect from him and on these the group really smokes behind him. They also do a fantastically trashy take on Roxy Music's "Remake / Remodel" (great idea for a cover - they also did a wild version of Alice Cooper's "Clones" when we saw them) and demolish Kim Fowley's "Wanted Dead or Alive"!

I think that any fan of the Oblivians would be thrilled with this EP - great from start to finish!