The Dictators "The Dictators" 2024-11-15 To completion

To completion

The five songs they selected for the EP capture the infectious energy of their live show

Now comes an amazing retrospective of those 13 years

The song "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is a first-person narrative of a young man who walks into a tube station on the way home to his wife

The Dictators "The Dictators" 2024-11-15 To completionConsidering that the first Dictators album came out in 1975, scads of credit is due these hearty pre punk New Yorkers for blazing a long trail, melding the essentials of junk culture wrestling, fast food, TV, beer, dope, cars, scandal sheets with loud hard fast rock'n'roll and thus creating an archetype that has been adopted and adapted by countless other bands. Originally formed as an homage response to the MC5, Flamin Groovies, New York Dolls and