Artist: The Rats
Album: Second Long Player Record
Label: Voiceprint – VP 468
Country: UK
Released: 1974/2009
Genre: Glam
Audio codec: FLAC | lossless

Tracklist:
1. Shine On
2. Mr. Straight
3. Shootin´ Again
4. The Elf Sires
5. Bite The Bullet
6. All Ways In The Night
7 Go Get Straight
8. The Highway Man
9. Day Of The Madman
10.Good Girls Taste Nice

Personnel:
Bass – Peter Kirke
Drums – Colin White
Lead Guitar, Keyboards – Graeme Quinton-Jones
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards – David Kubinec

Though they might be long forgotten by all but the most tuned-in of collectors, The Rats amount to little short of royalty in the enchanted world of junk-shop glam. Released in 1974 on the newly-launched Good Ear label (reportedly complete with a promotional beer mat), despite sounding at times worthy of a vintage Tony Visconti production, The Rats’ one and only album promptly disappeared from view. And that’s where it remained, until now, of course. Fronted by singer-songwriter Dave Kubinec (formerly of mid-60s act Pieces Of Mind and psych-pop outfit The World Of Oz), The Rats were the brainchild and creation of one-time Black Sabbath associate Adrian Millar. He paired Kubinec with readymade backing band CWT, who were demoing material for a possible album. For all its unconventional origins, First Long Player Record is, in its own way, a strangely engaging album which bristles with hints of T.Rex alongside fellow period icons Mott The Hoople and Ziggy-era Bowie. Pity, then, that The Rats’ story is ultimately a dead end one of a band whose line-up splintered before the album was even released. Even with a reshuffled line-up, they were destined never to tread the boards as a live act