Sleep in Safety [Green with Black Splatter Vinyl LP]

45 Grave - Sleep in Safety [Green with Black Splatter Vinyl LP]

Formed from putrefying remnants of The Germs, The Consumers, The Bags, The Gun Club, and The Screamers among other L.A. punk outfits, 45 Grave were arguably the first American Goth/deathrock band and inarguably one of the best. Fronted by the Exene-meets-Barbarella vocal and visual stylings of Dinah Cancer, 45 Grave also featured Paul B. Cutler on guitar, Don Bolles on drums, Rob (Ritter) Graves on bass, and Paul Roessler on keyboards, and from that all-star line-up came 1983's Sleep in Safety, their lone studio release and only recording with the band's original members.

Probably most famous for the first appearance of the horrifyingly graphic, true-crime track "Partytime," the single version of which was subsequently cut in 1985 and featured on The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, Sleep in Safety also offered the early MTV track "Evil" and the band "theme song" "45 Grave." For our Real Gone Music exhumation of this classic record, we have preserved the original album's gatefold edition complete with lyrics and added a custom inner sleeve drawn from the band's very rare "A Tale of Strange Phenomena" press release - green with black splatter vinyl!

Track Listing:
A1. Insurance From God
A2. Evil
A3. Partytime
A4. Dream Hits II
A5. Slice O' Life
B1. 45 Grave
B2. Phantoms
B3. Violent World
B4. Bad Love
B5. Surf Bat
B6. Procession