Sleeze Beez – Insanity Beach 2022 Bad Reputation Remastered 2 CD, MP3+FLAC, REAL CD

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As requested, here’s the Bad Reputation Records remaster on 1994’s SLEEZE BEEZ album “Insanity Beach“, a pretty killer, rockin’ melodic hard rock album. Despite the rock music turning darker and depressive in 1994, these Dutch guys didn’t noticed, and continued crafting feel-good arena-ready anthems. They were big in Japan, and Europe loved ’em.

Regardless of their name, SLEEZE BEEZ never were lipstick n’ hairspray, just sweat and rock n’ roll, and even more on “Insanity Beach”, a punchy, polished, guitar driven collection of melodic hard rock. This reissue features 3 bonus tracks: ‘We Do Rock ‘n’ Roll’ only appeared in the domestic edition of SLEEZE BEEZ second album ‘Screwed, Blued And Tattooed’, plus two single B-sides.
If that wasn’t enough, this Bad Reputation release adds a second, extra disc, plenty of bonus > 11 rare tracks.

Andrew Elt is a brilliant rock n’ roll singer – he’s fronting a Led Zeppelin coverband these days and you can tell why – he does have a Robert Plant-ish touch to his vocals (and his appearance), although Elt fits the Eighties / early Nineties idiom a little more. Jan Koster is a true power hitter and Ed Jongsma delivers bass lines just slightly more interesting than the standard Rock bassist. And you have in Chriz van Jaarsveld and Don van Spall two awesome guitarists. Check out the guitar work in ‘The Long Goodbye’ and ‘Sacrifice’ for great examples.

The tension build-up in ‘Save Myself’ makes the song one of the highlights, the atmosphere and spoken parts in ‘Gun Culture’ bring to mind Queensryche, and the slower, creeping ‘D.U.I. (Intoxicated)’ and ‘Hate Rock And Roll’ (did anyone say ‘Kashmir’?) are welcome variations in the tempo department.
Rest assured though, ‘Scream’ revives the party atmosphere of most of ‘Screwed, Blued And Tattooed’.
The bonuses include rare live tracks and B-sides, all with good sound quality.

SLEEZE BEEZ’s “Insanity Beach” rocks hard, with melody and hooks galore. (thanks to MD for this reissue)
HIGHLY Recommended

1 Tell It To The Jungle
2 Save Myself
3 Gun Culture
4 Youth Is A State Of Mind
5 D.U.I. (Intoxicated)
6 Human Zoo
7 Best Things In Life Are Free
8 Long Goodbye
9 Sacrifice
10 Hate Rock And Roll
11 Insanity Beach
12 Scream (encore)
Bonus Tracks
13 We Do Rock 'n' Roll
14 Hate Rock And Roll (demo Version)
15 Scream (demo Track)
Cd2
1 It Ain't Worth Shit (live In Roden 89)
2 Screwed, Blued & Tattoed (live Recording During 1991 Tour)
3 Back Home (live At The Paradiso 1993)
4 The Year Of Living Dangerously (lost Track Recorded In 1992)
5 Rock In The Western World (Tokyo 1995)
6 House Is On Fire (Tokyo 1995)
7 Hate Rock And Roll (Tokyo 1995)
8 Heroes Die Young (Tokyo 1995)
9 When The Brain Go To The Balls (Tokyo 1995)
10 Hate Rock And Roll (extended Version)
11 The Long Goodbye (edit)

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