Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.: The Lost '77 Mixes
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Free Music Review: Loonies Ate My Family
Hit: 5 Stars
'LAMF' is one of those 'seminal' albums, reverentially whispered about and discussed in hushed, worshipful tones. Laid down as influence to everybody from the Pistols to Snow Patrol and hundreds beyond, but it's a sad, rather disconcerting stat, that here on our very lovely new Amazon pages, it's garnered a paltry 14 reviews,(15 if you count this one, providing I tow the line and don't get all rebellious and start gobbing and swearing) while poser-appeasing nonsense like the hugely disappointing 'London Calling' accumulates a massive 450 or so. There's just no justice in the world.
'LAMF' is a rollicking power-house of an album, a force of nature. Johnny Thunders has an inimitable guitar style (though, significantly, Steve Jones' wall of noise for the Pistols bears noticable resemblance) and here beats the idea to submission.
Ear-tremblingly loud riffing, hotter than molten bitumen. You can gleefully detect slivers of Richards and from further back, little shards of Wray and Berry deep in it's worrying decibels. It's a wrist-slashingly potent statement, as positive and inspiring as all its gleaming ancestors.
'LAMF' transcends stoopid labels like 'punk' and 'new wave'. It's one in the eye for those obsequious, unimaginative squirts obsessed with categorizing and pigeon-holing everything that's not already dispassionately tagged up.
It sounds eerily fresh and new, it still has enough power to re-start a small planet but it appears classier than it's modern offspring. Still manages to be casually, disdainfully more impressive than it's prodigious but regrettably common-or-garden descendants.
Respect to original producer Speedy Keen and re-mixers Jungle Records for making the whole caboodle sound more electrifying than it's ever done. Good lyric booklet too, with useful comments by singer/guitarist Walter Lure.
There's a thought; Lure, Rath, Hell, Thunders - what kind of degenerate would have role-models like these...?
I'd be worried how they turned out....
Free Music Review: Sadly Under-appreciated Classic!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This 2-cd reissue simply shreds from the first note. It is one of those records that just reaches out of the speakers and grabs you. This takes what Johnny Thunder's and Jerry Nolan started doing with the Dolls and trades in the red leather, high heels, and lip stick for black leather, black boots and blue lips, no lip stick needed. This is the seamy, sleazy side of rock and roll, not for the faint of heart. No feel-good endings here, just elemental cravings, sex and drugs and rock and roll, the good and the bad. Johnny Thunders could be a superb guitarist in the Chuck Berry, Yard Birds, Keith Richards mode, going right for the throat. Jerry Nolan is great on the drums, and Walter Lure provides excellent second guitar, there are some awesome little jams going on. Billy Rath is excellent as well. Not a bad song on here, the original disk and the outakes second disk. This is a bonafide 5-Star, Must Have This In Your Collection kind of disk. It truly is a classic that did not get it's due at the time of it's release. Hugely influential on both sides of the Atlantic, the New York early punk scene, and the early English Punk all owe this effort a huge debt of thanks. It is a great record, timeless, with all the best elements of the 50's rock, the Stones, the Yardbirds, and punk all in one glorious mash-up that anyone who likes their rock to rock will appreciate and tresure.Free Music Review: Street Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
This album inbodies Rock and Roll At its Second Most exeptional point. When I heard the song Pirate love i wonder why can't all rock and roll be like this. The heartbreakers bring that queens New york Swager to the world at a more dirty chaper faster feel then the new york dolls but i still love. The HEartbreakers are way better then the Ramones for the Ramones where to scared to bring the truth to bring you the truth all songs are 10/10.
To tell You The truth I stopped lkistening to other music because it jjust fills to bland and not good enough i listen to this album at least once a day if not more And I listen to Th New York DOlls.
THe new York dolls and the heartbreakers are my one to.New york dols number one heartbreakers number to.
The twenty dolllars is cheap This album is worth its wait in gold.
I personally do not think it can even be rated.
You may think that i am over rating this album but try it youll love it. Also anuyone that says this is for older folks is wrong i am 18 and i love this album.
If todays generation would had made music like this Rock n Roll would not be dead like it is today all there is today is stupi scremo crap instead of Rock And ROll.
Free Music Review: Glad They Were Found ! It's Not Enough !
Hit: 5 Stars
I LOVE THIS CD !!!! Such a GREAT addition to my collection, especially with such lack of this sound these days!
Unfortunately...I did not appreciate their music "back in the day."
I had many opportunites to see them,living in NYC in the late 70's - late 80's. Soooo glad they found these lost mixes! I repent!
A MUST OWN for anyone that appreciates raw, classic, gritty rock + roll.
This collection should be held in the highest regard,along with the other classics like The Stones, Yardbirds, The Seeds, The Kinks, + The Ramones.
Johnny Thunder's guitar solo + vocals on It's Not Enough...WOW!!! Reminds me of The Stones, Child of the Moon, but BETTER! He really "goes out" + gives his all. GREAT piece of Rock + Roll with JT's emotions on his sleeve! It's bone chilling!
Chinese Rocks, Born to Lose, + Do You Love Me are rare treats for those who love the "old sound rock + roll."
These classics can NEVER be duplicated, + are so impotant for anyone who appreciates only the finest !
J.T. + Heartbreakers will never again be lost to me!
I hope many people discover this CD.
Written In Loving Memory of Johnny Thunders + band.
Free Music Review: "Living in a jungle/ It ain't so hard"
Hit: 5 Stars
The Heartbreakers were the Ramones with all the cuteness taken out. Their approach to rock 'n' roll was brutal and elemental, a vicious swagger that had more to do with Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, and 60s garage rock than the Sex Pistols. In a way, L.A.M.F. sounds like a punk rock reworking of Exile On Main Street. It maintains that classic's shambling, atmospheric haze, but filters it through distorted power chords, drunken vocals, and drug-fueled desperation. L.A.M.F. is a wild 'n' wooly good time, but it's dark under the surface: It's the sound of a band being swallowed by apathy and addiction, but who're determined to have a good time while waiting for their lives to fall apart. The result? A lot of storming guitar runs, bloody-minded humor, boozed up 50s melodies, and amphetamine garage punk. There are plenty of classics: "Chinese Rocks" is a miserable good time, and "Baby Talk" is the most appealing slab of chaos rock since the Velvet Underground unleashed "Sister Ray." "I Love You" is violent girl-group pop, and "It's Not Enough" is sleazy and catchy and wonderful. It's a damn punk classic, and no decent rock 'n' roll collection is complete without it.