By Russell Barker

In which bands from the extended Filthy family cover songs from the Grease soundtrack in their own inimitable style. Normally these sort of albums are difficult affairs and a great deal of time needs to be invested separating the wheat from the chaff. Thanks to the people at Filthy Little Angels this album, bar a few exceptions, bypasses that process. The quality control slips up the odd time, Popkiller's reading of 'Grease' is just shabby and weak, while Sarah & the Johnsonauts have strangely decided to do 'Summer Nights' in the style of a church group arsing about in their living room. Aside from that it's all pretty ace.

Top marks especially to Gay Against You who make 'Greased Lightning' sound like it's being done by Super Mario while Donkey King beats the crap out of him. Needless to say it's utterly great. Also props to Hyperbubble whose version of 'You're The One That I Want' is set to an early eighties electro beat, complete with robotic backing vocals, Akira whose 'Alone At The Drive-In Movie' is a brass led skittery bleep fest of an instrumental, which reminds you of the Bonzos spirit, The Black Tulips who make 'It's Raining On Prom Night' into a gloriously deranged torch song and The International Karate Plus whose 'Grease (Reprise)' is a funky electro tune, like New Order taken to its natural gay disco extreme.

And to be honest there's hardly a duff track among them. The album is a free download from www.filthylittleangels.com so I'd start with the aforementioned tracks and then pick anything else, maybe apart from the first two.