LOVE/HATE Black Out In The Red Room Bad Reputation Sleazy does it.

From page 91 of Classic Rock Magazine June 2005



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If Vain’s (recently reissued) No Respect was the last great sleaze metal album before the grunge explosion, then Black Out... is a close second.

Originally released in 1990, it can best be described as car-

crash-compelling, scuttling- roach-infested, doped-up, boozed-out, low-rent Cali- metal.

Young, dumb and full of scum, Love/Hate – and

especially squawking frontman Jizzy Pearl – don’t so much assault your eardrums as ejaculate forcibly into them.

Pole-gyrating gems such as Fuel To Run and Slutsy Tipsy are as classy as Jodie Marsh making a spread-eagled exit from a London taxi. And the lyrics to Rock Queen sum up the band’s licentious standpoint in the best possible way: ‘Thirteen, buxom, blonde, bad dream/Let me touch your cookies/Let me eat your cookies.’ Leer and enjoy.

■■■■■■■■■ ■ Geoff Barton

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