PRESS RELEASE: Swedish high energy rockers THE HELLACOPTERS have been celebrating their 30th anniversary recently and after releasing something new – the much-lauded Overdriver album on January 31, 2025, which reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts for the second time in the group’s career – it is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic.
Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3 is the newest, long-overdue entry in a series of rarities collections that started in 2002, combining rare and lesser-known material from a myriad of HELLACOPTERS singles, EPs, and compilation songs. The 24 tracks featured in this set have originally been released between 1995 and 2004, most of them only on vinyl, and include originals like ‘Disappointment Blues’, ‘Freeway To Hell’, ‘Doggone Your Bad-Luck Soul’ and ‘Long Gone Losers’ as well as cover versions of songs by Motörhead, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Smokey Robinson, Alice Cooper, The Ramones, The Nomads, Adam West – whose singer Jake Starr penned liner notes for this release – and many, many more. Furthermore, a lot of these songs have never been released digitally.
Meticulously compiled by Robert Eriksson, transferred from master tapes and vinyl by Henke Jonsson, and remastered for maximum audio fidelity by Magnus Lindberg, with Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works • Volume 3 THE HELLACOPTERS present a stunning collection of incredible, high-octane rock’n’roll on this more than 75 minutes long double vinyl, CD and digital release.
Tracklist w/ info on the cover songs:
Long Gone Losers
Pack Of Lies (The Nomads cover)
Her Strut (Bob Seger cover)
Little Miss Sweetness (The Temptations cover)
Oh Yeah Allright!
I Get A Sensation (Adam West cover)
Disappointment Blues
American Ruse (MC5 cover)
Ferrytale (1998 version)
Whole Lot Of Shakin´ In My Heart (Since I Met You) (Smokey Robinson cover)
I’m Eighteen (Alice Cooper cover)
Sent En Lördagkväll (Nationalteatern cover)
Working For MCA (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
Boney Maronie (Larry Williams cover)
A Man And A Half (Wilson Pickett cover)
455 SD (Radio Birdman cover)
Freeway To Hell
Get Ready (Smokey Robinson cover)
Doggone Your Badluck Soul
Stab Your Back (Damned cover)
Heaven (Scott Morgan cover)
What´d Ya Do? (Ramones cover)
Speedfreak (Motörhead cover)
Ungrounded Confusion (The Flaming Sideburns cover)
