"It's not big, it's not clever, but it is a lot of twelve-bar fun with that Keith Richards' twist": Faster Pussycat's debut is a middle-finger-in-the-air collection of songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

Faster Pussycat studio portrait.

Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat

(Image credit: Elektra Records)

Don't Change That Song
Bathroom Wall
No Room for Emotion
Cathouse
Babylon
Smash Alley
Shooting You Down
City Has No Heart
Ship Rolls In
Bottle in Front of Me

Contemporaries of L.A. Guns and Guns N’ Roses, Faster Pussycat were as brassy and sleazy as the Russ Meyer skinflick from which they took their name. Their singer Taime Downe was at the centre of the LA movement, thus both Taime and his band were scenesters, a fact reflected in their debut record.