Sun City GirlsBest Sun City Girls Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
4
Opinions
5
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 4 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Sun City Girls's catalog across 5 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Sun City Girls album is Torch of the Mystics (1989) with a 9.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Funeral Mariachi and You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles), Vol. 1. The discography on Wavelength spans 1989 to 2012.
Torch of the Mystics
“Torch of the Mystics is Sun City Girls’ best-loved album. It's replete with moments of hypnotic tunefulness stretched into songs that feel as classic and well-worn as the dusty cassettes the band uncovered on their travels around the globe. Long out of print, it's been resissued on CD and vinyl.”
You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles), Vol. 1
“The cult band's best-known album, 1990's Torch of the Mystics, was originally intended to be a double; outtakes recorded during the sessions, eventually released on 7"s, are gathered together in this fine set.”
Funeral Mariachi
“After close to 30 years and something in the vicinity of 50 albums, this is apparently the final studio record by the uncategorizable trio Sun City Girls.”
Piasa... Devourer of Men
“In February 2007, Charles Gocher, drummer for Sun City Girls, died of cancer. Alan and Richard Bishop, the trio's bassist and guitarist, respectively, retired the band's name after 25 years of recording. Gocher's death spawned at least one hard, unromantic fact: One of the hairiest discographies in indie music wouldn't get any bigger. Quality control not only wasn't the group's forte, it was posit”
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