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Charlie Megira
End Of Teenage
NUMERO GROUP - Cat No: NUM930lp
- updated:2025-03-11
The compilation "Tomorrow's Gone" is one of our best sellers. Israeli rock 'n' roll outsider Charlie Megira (born Gabriel Abudraham), who died far too young at 44 in 2016, recorded the five-track cassette 'End of Teenage' in Berlin, where he spent his final years, with his backing band The Bet She'an Valley Hillbillies. Now NUMERO reissues it for its 10th anniversary as an expanded edition adding 11 demos Megira recorded in his room around the same period!
Track List
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1. Jack The Ripper (Cassette Version)
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2. Lord I Ain’t Gonna Bump With No Big Fat Woman No More
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3. Rock Around The Block
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4. Wall Of Death
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5. Turn Around
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6. Hava Nargila
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7. A Whole Lot Of Nothing But The Blues
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8. Banana (Cassette Version)
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9. Little Skinhead Girl
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10. Rasco
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11. The Death Dance
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12. Jack the Ripper
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13. Heart and Soul
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14. Alligator Man
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15. Banana
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16. The Death Dance III

A modern mystery who became widely recognized posthumously thanks to NUMERO's releases. Megira's guitar careens around the fringes of surf rock like a sleepwalker with a rush of momentum, exuding a nightmarish yet sweet mood through generous reverb and echo, tearing through time and space with noise. Eventually the surf collapses, swallowed by madness, and the teenage years come to an end. He was said to be deeply influenced by Dick Dale and David Lynch (RIP), and indeed his sensibility—sublimating popular, nostalgic material into something wholly original through sheer force of authorship—is Lynchian to the core. Call it rockabilly drifting out of the Black Lodge. Far too dangerous to be whispered in your ear. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)