This one opens up with a proper shitkicker riff: clangy, crunchy and making no bones about how downright cool it is. When the vocals drop in the song’s excellence is confirmed, the singer providing a tuneful but nonetheless totally-fucking-aggro delivery that fits the garage-y rawness right down to the ground. The gobby back-ups and joyfully deranged solo are the icing on the cake, serving to do the song’s brilliant title (‘The Hardest Man In Billingham’) proud.
Over on the flip are two covers: one each by Dan Sartain and Supercharger (or The Mummies, depending on whose parenting skills you find least questionable). These blast by in a spray of snot, beer froth and broken strings, the band scraping up the raw scuzz of the originals and squishing it through their own Hives-meets-X-Ray-Spex filter in messy but raucously loving fashion.