Sleazegrinder weighs in with his latest recommendation for Glasgow’s Lowlife Sinners! Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.

The Lowlife Sinners hail from Glasgow, and they sound like a bare-knuckled street fight between The Almighty and Buckcherry. Of course, Warwick and the fellas would win that scrape, and they do here, as well, with an impressive muscle-over-sleaze quotient. The band formed last year after it’s principal raconteurs – the singularly named Fed and Jon – left their respective go-nowhere local bands, frustrated with the lack of full-on, tits-out rock n’ roll in Glasgow. Well, they certainly fixed that problem.

“Aye,” sez the boys, “It’s about time a loud dirty fuckin’ proper rock band started bangin’ out the tunes – proper good time party music is where we’re at! Music to jump, smoke, drink and fuck to! Made for sleazy bastards, by sleazy bastards!”

Speaking of sleazy bastards, as befitting a band that list WASP as one of their inspirations, the Lowlife Sinners like to curse in their songs. A lot. So you probably don’t want to blast today’s Track of the Day too loudly in the office. Unless you work in a strip club or something. The song is called “I Wanna”, and it pretty much illustrates a day in the life of the Sinners. Cleverly, their use of “Wanna”, a term most closely associated with the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, spells out the band’s punk origins, while the knife-in-guts guitar is pure sleaze-rock. Good stuff.

The band is currently gigging around the UK, working on an album, trying to stay one step ahead of Johnny Law. Here, to get you in the mood, is a Top Five List of other notable rock n roll sinners:

5.  The World’s Greatest Sinner.
Gonzo 1962 underground rock n’ roll  starring Timothy Carey as a snakeoil salesmen who ends up a loony hellfire and brimstone cult-leader. Music by Frank Zappa!

4. Disgraced televangelist Jimmy Swaggert, who famously “sinned against you” in the late 80’s. Sex scandal. Here’s just some of Jimmy’s contributions to rock n roll: “Religious Rock n’ Roll – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”, his 1987 book condemning “Christian metal”, which is, after all, pretty terrible. He also converted Michael and Robert Sweet to fundamentalist Christianity, which got the whole Stryper thing rolling. Speaking of Frank Zappa, ol’ Frank wrote a Swaggert tune, as did Ozzy and Iron Maiden.

3. Joan Jett’s 2006 album Sinner, her first implicitly/explicitly lesbianic album, as the covers of the Sweet’s A.C.D.C. and The Replacements’ “Androgynous” would imply. As would the video for A.C.D.C., which featured Carmen Electra seducing every girl in town. Also, the song “Fetish” also suggests that our girl JJ is into…other stuff, as well. Sinful stuff!

2. Sin, the band. If you want to wile away an afternoon exploring the twisted, thorny family tree of an ultra-obscure 80’s LA glam metal band, then try Sin, an insanely spandex-ed and high-haired bunch of puffballs featuring perrenial almost-was Rik Fox (WASP, Steeler, Hellion, Sister, Surgical Steel, etc etc) and Frank C Starr, who would soon take up motorcycles and fist-fights and join Four Horseman, one of the greatest unsung hard rock bands ever. Sin had some goofy tunes and a shaped picture disc and some very funny promo photos that are all worth the dig.

1. Jerry Lee Lewis. Learned to play the piano with his cousin, Jimmy Swaggert. Went to seminary school and started out playing gospel in church. Then he went bananas. Claimed to play “The devil’s music”. Married his 13 year old cousin. Played the piano like he was trying to kill it. We wouldn’t even be talking, you and I, if it wasn’t for this particular sinner. Along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Jerry’s one of the last living rock n’ roll pioneers. He’s releasing a new album this year, and he’s still sinning like mad.

Right, so that should get you in the proper mood. Here’s I Wanna, from Lowlife Sinners.

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