The Hellacopters - Cream of the Crap Vol 3

 

Of course, I've been a fanatical Hellcopters fan since first hearing them in the late 90's, around the time of Paying the Dues. Since then I have bought pretty much anything I could find of theirs, to the point where when I saw the song listing for this 3rd volume of their rare cuts compilations, I didn't know if it would be more than just a collections of songs that I already had all in one place.

And while there are a lot of more readily available material here ("Disappointment Blues", "Her Strut", "American Ruse", "Working for MCA", "A Man and A Half", etc.), there is also some very obscure - to me, anyway - cuts. Like, who could have imagined that they would have recorded a take on "Bony Moronie"?! Or Alice Cooper's "Eighteen"? Or the Damned's "Stab Your Back"? Of course, there are also new-to-me originals, which are always a bonus and everything, of course, rocks ferociously.

While any fan will certainly have a number of these tunes, you'll most likely not have everything, so you'll probably want this, just like you have the first two volumes. There's a booklet included with a handful of pix and an explanation of where each of these numbers first appeared. 

With 24 cuts at a reasonable price, I suppose that this wouldn't be a bad starting place for someone who wanted to explore the Hella's, as it has material from various incarnations, and, like I say, die-hard fans will want it for the more obscure material. Certainly worth it!