What are you listening to?

[Savonarola]

The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy! (1975)

An immediate precursor to The Ramones, they have the same sort of juvenile humor and questionable musical ability.  They're a little different, The Dictators are more like professional wrestling while The Ramones are more like a fright night horror movie (actually, that's probably a better description of Devo.  How about The Ramones are more like after-school detention?)  Some of their songs are a little naughty "Back to Africa" and "Master Race Rock" would certainly not fly today (though the latter is obviously a joke - and most of the members were Jewish.  It reminded me a bit of Kiss coming under fire for their lightning bolt s's even though Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons ( ) are Jewish.)

It's a strange coincidence that I was just reading about the MC5.  The lead singer of The Dictators, Handsome Dick Manitoba (possibly not his real name), would become the lead singer of the MC5 during their 2000s era (he also worked as a cab driver after The Dictators broke up.0