Garbage Days Revisited #41: Brian Setzer - "The Knife Feels Like Justice" (1986)
"Boyhood dreams are burnin' to the ground, long dark shadows hang over this town" - Brian Setzer - Chains Around Your Heart Oh boy does this album seem to divide people. I think I first discovered Brian Setzer via the Stray Cats when I was taking my first tentative steps into listening to punk in my early twenties - for some reason the Cats always seemed to crop up on a few of the punk/new wave compilations I was listening to at the time which isn't as far fetched as it sounds. Lest we forget, this was the era of Sid Vicious covering Something Else and C'mon Everybody so the Cats' souped up take on rockabilly wasn't that far out of step with the times. Hand on heart though, I've always kind of regarded the Stray Cats as a band I can take or leave. Their albums were decent enough but apart from the timeless Rock This Town , they never quite had that "haul you back in for repeated listening" thing that the best of the bands from that er...