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(TV) coming from matador....
hello:: clipped the following from a matador records mail-out....
william
Richard Hell -- New Release of Old and Unheard Material Coming in 2002
In early 2002, Matador will be release an as-yet untitled double CD of
recordings by Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Hell, a founding member of
the Neon Boys, Television, and the Heartbreakers, before forming the
Voidoids in 1976, is a crucial voice in American music and literature.
Credited by many as one of the originators of the punk movement, songs
such as "Blank Generation," "Love Comes In Spurts," "The Kid With The
Replaceable Head," and "Time" are amongst the finest of that or any
other era. The first Voidoids album, 'Blank Generation' (Sire, 1977)
has been cited more times than we can count as one of the most
influential of its time. The following commentary on Blank Generation
is from Lester Bangs:
"Richard Hell identifies with no movement, with few people in fact. If
you listen between the sonic blasts, his music is about a sense of
aloneness beyond the old alienated antihero syndrome, but before that
Richard Hell is a rocker. The music on this album is some of the
strongest, truest rock & roll I have heard in ages. Like most great
rock & roll, it stands alone; there are influences, not all of them
musical and many of them literary, but he is no arty poseur, in fact
this is also some of the most honest music I have heard in some time.
As we trail out of the age of artifice (I don't think I have to mention
any names), artifice itself rides on the coattails of most of those who
proclaim themselves an alternative. Richard Hell is different. I hear
echoes in this record of rock & roll from time immemorial, and they are
not contrived, they are rather the modus of a plain-speaking kid with
an awesome intelligence and a great pain to speak plainly of... The
toughness of the music is just defensive armor, courtesy the
searchlight-destructive tag-team of Robert Quine and Ivan Julian on
guitars. In this album they have slashed out some of the most fitfully
dangerous rock & roll I've heard this decade. If you think I say that
lightly you don't know me. But at the center is Hell himself, his own
ninth circle, pretending to be blank when his every move and word
reveals a naked, impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only
truly rock & roll artistic convulsion, which is to be driven so far
into and paradoxically, simultaneously outside of yourself that you
create as a matter of frenzy, instead of lowering your eyelids before
the world in shame and loneliness."
The forthcoming double CD will consist of the following :
Disc One
(the bulk of this CD was previously
available on the ROIR cassette 'RIP')
Heartbreakers -- 1975 (Hell, Thunders, Nolan, Lure)
1. Love Comes In Spurts
2. Chinese Rocks (unavailable on the ROIR version)
3. Can't Keep My Eyes On You
4. Hurt Me
Voidoids 1977 (Hell, Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, Marc Bell)
5. I'm Your Man
6. Betrayal Takes Two
Voidoids 1979 (Hell, Quine, Julian, Xavier, Morrison)
7. Crack Of Dawn
8. Ignore That Door
9. I Live My Life
10. Going Going Gone
Voidoids 1983 (Hell, Paumgardhen, Freeman, Wood, live in Atlanta)
11. Funhunt (not on ROIR version)
12. I can Only Give You Everything
Hell In New Orleans, 1984
13. I Been Sleepin' On It
14. Cruel Way To go Drown
15. The Hunter Was Drowned
16. Hey Sweetheart
Disc Two
(previously unreleased live recordings)
Richard Hell And The Voidoids
Live at Music Machine, London 1977
1. Intro
2. Love Comes In Spurts
3. Liars Beware
4. You Gotta Lose
5. Lose Yourself
6. New Pleasure
7. Walking On the Water
8. The Plan
9 . Blank Generation
10. I Wanna Be Your Dog
11. Vacancy
12. Venilator Blues
Richard Hell & The Voidoids --
Live At CBGB, New York, NY 1978
St. Mark's Church Poetry Project Benefit, FM Broadcast
13. Kid With The Replaceable Head
14. Don't Die
15. You Gotta Lose (with Elvis Costello)
16. Shattered
There might still be a change or 2 to disc one, but we'll let you know.
Disc two -- whatever it might lack in terms of "production value," it
more than makes up for in the performances. This is no mere historical
artifact. Nothing against historical artefacts, but this sounds pretty
devastating in on the brink of 2002.
'Hot & Cold', a huge collection of Richard Hell's non-fiction essays,
poetry, song lyrics, notebooks and drawings, has just been published by
powerHouse books (http://www.powerhousebooks.com). You can order it
from Amazon or you can think about it for a minute or 2 and order a
signed copy instead from Richard's website (http://www.richardhell.com)
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