Category: DIRTY LOOKS

To complete DIRTY LOOKS ’80s underrated albums, here’s the band third indie album ”I Want More” from 1987 before being signed by major labal Atlantic originally released on the band’s own Sticky Records, and finally released on CD for the first time by FnA Records including bonus tracks, a release approved by vocalist Henrik Ostergaard before his untimely death.
After two solid, rocking albums DIRTY LOOKS built a name for themselves and a respectable following. Then in 1987, the band forged forward with the release of their third full length album, ‘I Want More…’ and more is what the band would get.
The single ‘Oh Ruby’ got the attention of major radio station and received heavy airplay. Major labels started calling: EMI, Elecktra, Chrysallis, and Atlantic all put in their bids – Atlantic won… and the rest is history as they would say. Dirty Looks saw MTV Airplay, worldwide tours, major recording budgets, and an era that ushered Hard Rock into the mainstream…

And this one was requested too: DIRTY LOOKS’ very first indie album from 1984, later released in Europe by Axe Killer Records in 1985, but never available on CD until this FnA remastered reissue featuring new artwork and five bonus tracks, including the very rare “Dirty Looks 1984 EP”, a tape originally distributed in limited quantities.
For many this is the best DIRTY LOOKS; raw, in your face raunchy rock n roll to the hilt. This is early Dirty Looks, riff driven and plenty of swirling solos with that 1983-84 American hard rock scene explosion heavy sound.
”Dirty Looks ’84” showcases a band hungry for recognition – they just wanted to rock. When Erie, Pennsylvania cover band Crossfire called it a day, Danish born vocalist/guitarist, Henrik Ostergaard, and fellow Crossfire bassist Jimmy Chartley packed up and headed to the west coast (San Francisco to be exact)… and Dirty Looks was born…

Here’s DIRTY LOOKS second indie album “In Your Face” from 1986, originally released on cassette & vinyl on the band’s own Sticky Records, and finally remastered / released on CD for the first time by FnA records approved by vocalist Henrik Ostergaard before his untimely death.
Here DIRTY LOOKS perfected their riff-attack and choruses, still raw, in-your-face rock ‘n roll. Infectious as the flu with enough hooks to snag a whale, “In Your Face” is chock full of heavy, dirty, boogie metal. Henrick was often accused of being a Bon Scott clone, and sure enough on songs like “Oh Ruby” that influence is apparent, but he also has a charm an charisma that is all his own.
Much of the material on here would show up on the band’s first major label debut, however, all are different versions and some fans prefer the more raw recordings here…

Divebomb Records is releasing today this officially licensed reissue of ”Bootlegs”, DIRTY LOOKS third album which isn’t a bootleg at all, but a quality first rate studio recording. Now the album is back on CD for the first time in a whopping 30 years, fully remastered, with refreshed artwork and limited to 1,000 copies.
After releasing a pair of excellent, Billboard-charting hard rock albums for major label Atlantic Records – Cool From The Wire (1988) and Turn Of The Screw (1989) – DIRTY LOOKS licensed this nine-song recording to Shrapnel Records in 1991. Consisting of material written throughout the band’s peak stage, some of these compositions were purported to have been inexplicably rejected by Atlantic during the band’s stint with the label, despite obvious strengths abound.
If fact, ”Bootlegs” packs some of the best songs this band ever wrote, and it’s among our favorites. Here, DIRTY LOOKS sounds much more like CINDERELLA than on their two first (released) albums, and …
Only at 0dayrox