BACHELOR PAD, THE - All Cock And Hash (The Very Best Of)

Limited Yellow vinyl, gatefold sleeve, with colour insert poster. "Imagine the Buzzcocks with Syd Barrett as the singer!" THE BACHELOR PAD : five lysergically-enhanced heads from Strathbungo, Glasgow. Psychedelic punks born into, but delightfully out of step with the C86 fanzine culture of the time. Flashes of red and purple_ Perfect pop buried amidst a nuclear maelstrom of noise and excitement. During their brief existence they burned bright, squeezing out an album, 5 singles and a flexi-disc, with the cream of the crop being served up on this career spanning compilation. "_amid the sonic bedlam, they write the sweetest melodies, they've got the most agreeable harmonies. It's all about extremes: "Do It For Fun" is the noise your brain makes when everything you've taken comes on top at once; "Tumble And Fall" is as cute as a squirrel's nut, "The Coroner's Wife" is_. well, answers on a postcard, please." Alexis Petridis