This is a band that started off as a B-Movie concept that never got off the ground during the late 80’s. The original songs were to a be some sort of soundtrack I guess but instead they became the music Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy would use to launch the concept band with the same name as the failed film: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. The music is inspired by all sorts of old B-Movies and Z-Movies of the 60’s and 70’s and uses well placed samples from those films to create a really interesting effect. They are not the only band to do this of course. Ministry does it very well and in a similar style and Rob Zombie uses cult film samples more sparingly in his much heavier B-Movie style metal music. But TKK does it up in the coolest fashion of all because “cool” and “hip” are a couple of the themes they draw on to create their world of jaded hedonism run amok. Their songs explore the sleazy, decadent side of life without really getting nihilistic about it. There is always something slightly comical or satirical even when they are singing or sampling about drug overdoses, muder conspiracies or bargaining with Satan.

The feel of the music is like a good Russ Meyer movie and they must really research some odd flicks to find these dialog samples. While the music does have that techno club feel to it it is still pretty straight forward rock and roll. It does not fall into repetitive electro sample land without some connecting concept to the songs and albums as a whole. They run with themes like disco glam, pill popping, martini lounges, swinging love, dirty little secrets and all sorts of creepy little things that keep Freudian analysists employed. While some frontmen and rockers (like Lux Interior from The Cramps) can wear high heels and never seem TOO gay these guys just seem like their favorite movie is Al Pacino’s Cruising and they deck out in leather chaps and Harley caps in almost every photo shoot I see. Far be it from me to judge a man who wears leather chaps with his buttocks exposed but if said man does wear black leather undies and they rock like these guys do, by God, more power to them. I am not saying these guys are gay okay, most likely just bi because there also are a couple hot chicks in this band and they can sing and strut while wearing bell bottoms and platforms with the best of the 70’s diso crowd. Hopefully the chicks are bi as well.

I have been listening to Sexplosion and the Dirty Little Secrets compilation and they are good discs to start with if you do not know much about the band. They are serious about what they are doing - in a rock band serious fashion - and any fan of B-Movies and sub-culture decay will love all the inferences. The TKK deal with a sort of Valley of the Dolls world full of shady, sexually distressed characters, international spies, bound up helpless women and barbiturates. In other words great, immortal themes to construct some foot tapping tunes to. A blending of the B-Movies themes they love so dearly with the music they do so well. The movie was never made but they turned the idea into one hell of a stage show.

I sit here all alone with a martini built for two. I sit here all alone cos’ I got nothin’ better to do.

I sit here all alone with a martini built for two. I sit here all alone, well I showed up but where are you?

TRACK LIST:

1. Dirty Little Secrets

2. Martini Built for Two

3. Daisy Chain 4 Satan

4. Babylon Drifter

5. Drug Doll Jungle

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