Speedo's Classics (1995 - Bootleg)
In my never ending quest to track down every single variant of every single Rocket From The Crypt release, I do have to contend with a handful of bootlegs. The most well known of which is probably this four song Rocket Queen 7". This reared its head in 1995 claiming to be limited to five hundred copies only. I will never believe that to be true, there must be a ton more of these out there as I've seen this thing floating around with a decent level of frequency over the past twenty-five years.
When this was released, they printed them up on a bunch of different colored sleeves. Over the years I've been picking up these different colors when I see them for reasonable prices. I'm not willing to pay a ton of money for them, but I do want to catch them all at some point. Recently the blue covered variant popped up on eBay and I grabbed it for pretty cheap. This may actually end up being the last record I buy for the foreseeable future. I have a few preorders that were already paid for, but the world has changed a lot and my budget for record buying has had to be diverted elsewhere.
As far as this 7" goes, it contains three songs culled from the Japanese version of the All Systems Go compilation CD and a live Misfits cover. I've always liked the three main songs and I had my first copy of this 7" (pink cover) before I had tracked down the Japanese CD, so this was my first exposure to them.
"Ballot Fire" (an incorrectly named "Ball of Fire") has always been a favorite and is very much in line with a lot of the 92-93 era Rocket single releases of the time. "10 Forward" was also a hit for completely different reasons, showcasing Rocket's louder and crazier side. "Call it a Complex" is a slower, droning song with vocal effects and again is very much a song of that era. The live Misfits cover never did much for me and still doesn't to be honest. It's a neat thing to exist, but was never anything I listened to all the much.
Once Scream Dracula Scream came out, Rocket didn't really delve into these types of noisy interludes as often. There's something magical to me about these songs which is surely in no small part because this is the time period I first became a fan, prior to the release of SDS.
Rocket From The Crypt - "Ball of Fire":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yHPGq3CEAA
Rocket From The Crypt - "10 Forward":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qdg9gBWGFQ
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