Stiv Bators "L.A. L.A." 1994

This album is great. It shows Stiv at his best. For me it shows his real voice in a better way, in my opinion much better thab the Dead Boys and the Lords of the New Church. "Not that way anymore" and "The last year" are the best, also the Choir cover "It's cold outside", the song that Stiv more liked when he was a kid. Buy it now! - By Arthur
Those who know Stiv Bators only from his ground-breaking punk rock with the Dead Boys and the Lords of the New Church will be pleased to see him tackling early rock music standards like "Louie Louie" ("L.A. L.A."), the other great Richard Berry anthem "Have Love Will Travel", and the Moody Blues hit "The Story in Your Eyes". The title song features new lyrics by Bators that are surprisingly well wrought considering the loose nature of the recording session (which included Kim Fowley and members of Sham 69, the Runaways and the Popsicles). The backing band on "Have Love Will Travel" is called the Little Kings; one of their members, Gore Verbinski went on to direct numerous music videos and later helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the two Pirates sequels.
The flip side of the first single to emerge from Bomp, "It's Cold Outside" (originally by the Choir, which later reformed as Raspberries with Eric Carmen) is a song that the Dead Boys reportedly could not figure out how to play. The most poignant and perhaps the best track on the album, "I'm No More" is a beautifully rendered love song that was to have been his last single with Bomp.
Following these sessions, Stiv Bators returned to Paris and began working on another solo album. His untimely death came less than three years later. - wiki
trax:
01 The Last Year 02 It's cold outside 03 Circumstantial evidence 04 Not that way anymore 05 I'll be alright 06 I stand accused 07 LA LA 08 Blues 09 Factory boy 10 Story in your eyes 11 Have love will travel 12 I'm no more 13 Gudbuy t'jayne 14 Circumstancial evidence (alternate version) 15 I'll be alright (alternate version) 16 Not that way anymore (alternate version) 17 It's cold outside (alternate version) 18 the last year (alternate version)