The Motorettes - Kids In America (TT Remastered)
4/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
This lovingly done cover is a sick and filthy rock 'n' roll romp with the sexiest of intensions and shows The Motorettes have become the kind of band the world knew the would, a fun, exciting and rambunctiously flirtatious group who know their way around a three minute wonder. Yeah, we're not talking about anything that's going to set the world on fire, but it can certainly set any set of decks ablaze with its roving and stomping kitsch and sexy-voiced valour.
80s music is somehow trendy again. Give it ten minutes and it'll be uncool once more, but for now at least this is the kind of thing that's getting people excited. It's total, unashamed pop-rock that thrashes around your head like a Beach Boys track that's started skipping on your CD player and somehow starts sounding great... and that's what this band does so well. So well it makes you cry like a little lost girl.
The signature of a good band is somebody to whom can close your eyes and imagine you're part of, and after a few pints of the house's finest The Motorettes seem the guys to be. Their unique take on tunes like 'I'm On Fire' are already something of legend and though it's only the bonus material from this unstoppable rock 'n' roll force, the key material being a firm launch of unbeatable 60s-esque pop-punk anthems, it's still pretty outstanding.
This track is a marathon of amazement that, like the band themselves, never lets up or ceases to amaze. It's pure extravagance and enjoyment tightly bottled into a package that'll lunge you into passionate fits of random dance and senseless head bopping not too far away from the effects of The Stranglers best work.
The song's available through uber-cool (and legal!) download site TT Remastered along with some other slightly altered classics that might just screw you up enough that you begin to think even going to work sounds like fun, if only to experience normality for a change.
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