Rock'n'Roll Resurrection (Live)

County's first release following the less than pleasant dismantling of the Electric Chairs was this dramatic recounting of a New Year's Eve 1979 show in Toronto, Canada. Dominated by an absolutely phenomenal rendering of the already supercharged title track, it's a magnificent album, rounding up an intelligent selection of both the classics ("Paranoia Paradise," "F**k Off," "Cream in My Jeans") that brought County such notoriety elsewhere in the 1970s and the savage rockers that proved he/she was so much more than Just a Pretty Weird Face. Remarkable reinventions of "Night Time" and "Hanky Panky" are pure garage pop brilliance, while "Rock 'n' Roll Cleopatra" serves much the same purpose in County's career-long catalog of self-definition as "Man Enough to Be a Woman" did a couple of years before. One can lament the fact that the original Electric Chairs weren't around to fire up the show even further, but this is still a great-sounding live recording, with a brutal band and a frontman in the finest fettle. The punk/new wave era really didn't produce many great live albums — but here's one, regardless.