Live at Last by The Slickee Boys

Live at Last catches the Slickee Boys, Washington D.C.'s punk-psychedelic garage lifers, on a single night at a club called Ubu in Rennes, France, in May 1988, when the band had nipped over to Europe for a short tour behind Fashionably Late. New Rose released it in April 1989, with Giant handling it in the States.

It plays like a career sampler with the amps cranked: Mark Noone hollering up front, Kim Kane and Marshall Keith churning out a double-guitar racket, and a set drawn from nearly all of the band's twelve-year run. The prize is "This Party Sucks", their last original song, still unreleased when they tore through it that night. The covers show off their record collections, from the French punks the Dogs to Status Quo, the Afrika Korps and the Chocolate Watch Band. Kane left soon after the tour to concentrate on Date Bait, which makes this a snapshot taken just before the lineup changed.

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