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[megarockradio]

Baked Potato! Sunday Classics Brunch 7-19-26

No, seriously it’s so hot we can bake a potato just by sitting it on the deck. So a good Sunday to hide in the AC and rock out. A mostly rocker episode without a lot of mellow stuff for this four hours! Full playlist below! (more…)

[megarockradio]

Sunday Classics Brunch - 06-07-26

Another week in the books, another live show done! Playlist below! Continue reading Sunday Classics Brunch – 06-07-26

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Anyone know anyone that does psychedelic/hippy/flower child kind of commissions? Looking to get the album cover from Good Rats' Tasty remade for the New York Sirens (Pizza Rats). Bonus points is the artist is from one of the boroughs but Ill pay anyone that can do the job

[mice-rats-daily]

Today's rat is the rat on the cover of the album Tasty by Good Rats!

[pipsqueak-official]

i need the general public to stop acting like it's a Big Deal when i bend down to photograph the subway rats on patrol sometimes. it isn't a Big Deal.

[vinylspinning]

Good Rats: From Rats to Riches (1978)

Surely one of the ugliest rock bands that ever was, Long Island, New York’s Good Rats couldn’t even make it big BEFORE the MTV era came along and started wiping out even more attractive, but likewise video-challenged, ‘70s rockers.

Not that serving any master was ever part of the band’s agenda, and that’s why the quintet led by Peppi Marchello (R.I.P.) were still an underground proposition, hardly touched by major labels, more than a decade in to their career and the release of their fourth studio album, 1978’s pun-tastic From Rats to Riches.

Why, even the deceptively sweet, string-laden ballad, “Dear, Sir,” is basically a “fuck you, too” riposte to record companies who repeatedly rejected the band’s demos in years past, promising that:

“Well, I swear I'd rather clean the cages at the zoo; Than to change my songs for you.”

A second, earnest love song, “Let Me,” follows right after the first, but all else here “rocks out with their rats out,” with only a few other sonic deviations like the yacht rock of “Just Found Me a Lady” and bluesier “Coo Coo Coo Blues,” versus more eclectic prior albums like Tasty (‘74) and Ratcity in Blue (‘76).

Among the highlights: “Taking it to Detroit” challenges the Motor City to a friendly rumble for “[Blank] Rock City” bragging rights, “Mr. Mechanic” pledges eternal love to a reliable automobile, and “Victory in Space” comically launches pimps and hos across the Milky Way ... don’t ask.

Fittingly, all these catchy, self-effacing rockers were produced by former Turtles and Frank Zappa associates Flo & Eddie, and they were clearly built to work, not on the radio airwaves, but on small club stages.

In fact, “Don’t Hate the Ones Who Bring You Rock & Roll” name checks one of the Good Rats’ frequent support acts from that period, see if you can guess which one:

“Twisted mothers, twisted brothers, twisted sisters; You all got to be a little twisted if you paid to hear us.”

Alas, unlike Dee Snider’s similarly ugly (but cleverly glammed over) bunch, the Good Rats never would make it From Rats to Riches (let alone onto MTV), though they kept right on performing and recording sporadically into the 21st Century. 

More Good Rats: Tasty, Ratcity in Blue. 

[moondogball]

Good Rats ‎– Great American Music

Sello: Great American Records ‎– GAR 8003

Formato: Vinyl, LP, Album

País: US

Publicado: 1981

Género: Rock

Estilo: Hard Rock

[submersiblesounds]

Victory in Space - Good Rats @ My Father's Place 3.7.78