Title: Teenage Love Bomb
Year: 1991
Label: In The Red Records
Tracks: 1.) Teenage Love Bomb, 2.) All I Want
If you are like me and started buying Teengenerate records before the internet age, you made it your goal to figure out the original artists who did all the covers they recorded. Most of them were not too difficult as they're now considered rock & roll and punk standards, but The Dirty Lovers were a bit more unexpected. You won't find "All I Want" on a Killed By Death or Bloodstains comp. It was only released six years before Teengenerate's Savage.
Here's what I can tell you about The Dirty Lovers. They rocked Australia in the late-80's with a straight forward, fun punk sound uncommon pretty much everywhere in the world back then. Tragically, two of their members died in a car accident following a gig in 1989 and that was it for them. The Australian label Dog Meat Records would release a 4-song EP titled "Shanty Tramp" in 1990, which I unfortunately do not own, and then In The Red Records optioned an American release with the previously unreleased "Teenage Love Bomb" on the A-side and carried over "All I Want" from the Dog Meat EP.
There has been talk for years of In The Red or Rigid Records from Australia issuing a discography release with upward of seven completely unreleased songs but it has yet to materialize.
Sample: here
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