- Audio CD (Mar 3 2003)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Matador
- ASIN: B000060MNS
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #97,631 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Love Comes In Spurts | |||
| 2. Chinese Rocks | |||
| 3. Can't Keep My Eyes On You | |||
| 4. Hurt You | |||
| 5. I'm Your Man | |||
| 6. Betrayal Takes Two | |||
| 7. Crack Of Dawn | |||
| 8. Ignore That Door | |||
| 9. I Live My Life | |||
| 10. Time | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Intro - Hell, Richard | |||
| 2. Love Comes In Spurts - Hell, Richard | |||
| 3. Liars Beware - Hell, Richard | |||
| 4. You Gotta Lose - Hell, Richard | |||
| 5. Lose Yourself - Hell, Richard | |||
| 6. New Pleasure - Hell, Richard | |||
| 7. Walking On the Water - Hell, Richard | |||
| 8. The Plan - Hell, Richard | |||
| 9. Blank Generation - Hell, Richard | |||
| 10. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Hell, Richard | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Sinewy, trashed and poetic, Richard Hell was the apotheosis of New York punk, as the double-CD Time shows; it's a suitably ragged catalogue of his work beyond Television and 1977's marvellous Voidoids LP, Blank Generation. Disc One begins in 1975, with four tracks from Hell's short stint in the Heartbreakers alongside Johnny Thunders. There's a first attempt at the seminal "Love Comes in Spurts" and a grizzled, heartfelt version of Dee Dee Ramone's junkie prayer, "Chinese Rocks". But Thunders' guitar playing sounds trad and clumsy next to the wiry garage art of Robert Quine, who drives some pretty spunky Voidoids tracks. It's these that prove the Voidoids, of the CBGB generation, sound most like the Strokes. Four from 1984, with Meters drummer Ziggy Modeliste and a skronky sax player on board, act as a curious epilogue to this brief, incendiary career. Hell dispassionately abandoned rock & roll for writing, and left his legend to grow largely untainted by bad records. A 1977 London gig provides the bulk of Disc Two. The sound quality is shocking, but it's clear the Voidoids had, fleetingly, a wild mercurial genius most bands only dream of, even when ritually massacring "I Wanna Be Your Dog". A year later in New York, Elvis Costello turns up to bellow "You Gotta Lose". Like most things here, it's a phenomenal mess. But a mess that's lost none of its potency to inspire and provoke. --John Mulvey
Chronique amazon.fr
Membre fondateur de Television (avec Tom Verlaine) et des Heartbreakers (avec Johnny Thunders), Richard Hell a été un de ces pyromanes responsables de l'incendie punk qui a embrasé l'Europe et les États-Unis dans la seconde moitié des années 70. Time ravira donc tous ceux pour qui il ne se passe plus grand-chose depuis les provocations des Sex Pistols ou les folles soirées du CBGB's. Mais, au-delà, il sonne comme un formidable témoignage d'une époque où l'énergie affichée de jeunes autodidactes primait sur les subtiles stratégies des experts en marketing des maisons de disques. Time réunit l'album R.I.P. (enregistré sur cassettes et sorti en 1984) et un concert que Richard Hell et les Voidoids ont donné à Londres (1976) et à New York (1977). Un double CD constitué de quelques grands moments, comme ces versions radicales de "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (des Stooges), "You Gotta Lose" (avec Elvis Costello) et, bien sûr, de cet hymne nihiliste qu'est "Blank Generation". Amoureux du rock FM s'abstenir ! --Philippe Margotin
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Time and Time again,
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This review is from: Time (W/1 Live Cd) (Audio CD)
Time and time again Richard Hell ardently heightens that incantatory possession/dispossession all great music catalyzes to a level where the body is too small a host for the inspiration! This double disc retrospective, both incendiary, dolorous and highly evocative, is an indispensable gem for any music lover. Featuring 17 previously unreleased live recordings, (two with Elvis Costello and a cheeky cameo of Johnny Rotten urging for an encore at the Music Machine 1977), a fuelled classic live set in New Orleans (84), not to mention some of the best versions of "I'm Your Man", "Crack of Dawn" "Time" etc. Hell's eloquent, informative introduction in the cover booklet is reason enough to purchase this item! The perfect musical parallel for Hell's Hot and Cold, a priceless collection of writings! Don't miss out!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must for Richard Hell fans...,
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This review is from: Time (W/1 Live Cd) (Audio CD)
This quite good collection fills in all the holes in Richard Hell's short-lived, but nonetheless excellent foray into music. The collection covers a lot of ground over the more or less decade that Hell recorded. For fans, its a must. However, its not a "greatest hits" or "best of" package, so if you're new to Richard Hell and the Voidoids, I'd strongly suggest that you first try out his classic (and best) release, "Blank Generation." The first disc on "Time" is an expanded "RIP," which ROIR released originally many years ago. The recording quality varies greatly as does the general quality of the songs. Highlights include early and excellent versions of "Love Comes In Spurts," "Chinese Rocks" (both recorded when Hell was a member of the Heartbreakers), "I'm Your Man," and "Time," as well as the (pre-RIP) never-before-released "The Hunter Was Drowned." The disc perfectly displays Hell's wide and divergent take on music (which went way beyond just punk music, incorporating elements of blues, 1950's pop, and free jazz, among other influences). Again, not every track is a winner, but taken in total, it provides a very interesting retrospective of Hell's career. The second disc is all live material, and while the sound quality is a little rough (to say the least), the performance is outstanding: very energetic, with the aggression level amped up on a number of the songs, particularly the first few tracks -- "Love Comes In Spurts," "Liars' Beware," and "You Gotta Lose." Very good.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hell, Plus 25 Years,
By "mencken61" (Metairie, La. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Time (W/1 Live Cd) (Audio CD)
This fine collection of Mr. Hell's work is best exemplified, to me, by two sections: the Heartbreakers and New Orleans stuff. (I qualify this by saying I am a Heartbreakers fan from New Orleans.) Here we hear the lost verse from "Chinese Rocks," the pre-One-Track-Mind "Love Comes in Spurts," and other such arcana from the days when Johnny Thunders had long hair, Walter Lure was in his larval stage, Jerry Nolan was still perfecting perfection as the world's best drummer, and Richard Hell was being followed by a Malcolm McLaren taking notes. Then came the salad days of a record contract and inferior material and superior musicianship--as well as a drop off in interest. But the New Orleans recordings are most interesting. Ziggy Modeliste of the Meters provides the down-home drums that made him a recognized genius, Pete LeBon on guitar (a man whose band Wild Kingdom broke more walls in 1982 than we broke in war in 2001-02), and Nicky (All Key) Sazenbach on drums and sax make this good stuff. The live recordings are OK, though we who have read "Please Kill Me" forgive Mr. Hell if he doesn't sound his best on the 1977 English tour. Recommended for Hellions and the Thundersian heartbroken.
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