Re: (TV) coming from matador....

[eric gregory <crackcity_2000@yahoo.com>]

pardon my french, but MOTHERFUCKING YEAH!
this is great great news!
--- -=Harris=-) <3vs1@dccnet.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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