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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had already heard LAMF by the Heartbreakers, but chanced on this album after one of the tracks (You cant put your arms around a memory) was used on the end credits of a Soprano's episode. This album is one of the loosest, coolest, sounding rock n' roll records I've ever had the sheer joy to listen to. Thunders often gets tagged with the 'Punk' tag, but his playing/singing shakes off any era or style label's, this guy was an original, and this album has everything, ballad's, rockers, blues, pop. And any album that has guest players like Phil Lynott, Steve Marriot, and Paul Cook and Steve Jones of the Pistols, is worth any card-carrying music fans hard earned cash.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Johnny's nous and sensibility dug up these oldtimers even in the late 70's they were mouldering. He then gave them a big kiss as he rekindled their deadbeat nuggets. Duetting with Patti Palladin brought the songs alive. Certain sparkling dazzling forms thrive above the dross. Johnny excavated the trash and he delivers it true to form in a key of his own making.
This brings new and old together sung in his Brooklyn nasal twang; Pipeline, Wizard, Daddy Rolling Stone and Great Big Kiss could have played alongside the Dolls repetoire. The list of collaborators is extensive; Pistols, Hot Rods, Thn Lizzy, Pretenders, Dolls/Heartbreakers, Only Ones, Snatch and Small Faces.
The songs veer from pathos, Can't put your arms around a memory, a song about adolescent bereavement, the eventual split of friendship to "So alone" a paen to loneliness. "Dead or Alive" and "Downtown" are both sleaze rockers. "Subway Train" and "London Boys" are Dolls/Heatbreakers guitar rockers. The last one being a stinging riposte to the Pistols attacks in "New York", ironic as three of the Pistols worked with him, Sid, Paul and Steve.
This has some Brown Sugar thrown into the mix, as a sweetener not the main course. Johhny is more that a wannbe Rolling Stone clone, he was a living Doll. Too far ahead in guitar trash chimes he was caught in a no man's land. Hanoi Rocks, Queensryche and Pam's husband took his boat and sailed away.
White mojo music is the substance along with the Cramps, Gun Club, Ramones, Johnny's duet with Patti Palladin, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave/BP. Fitting next to Muddy Waters, Johnny Lee Hooker the line travelling back to Robert Johnson.
This was the sound the 60's recoined in the 70's. A time without the violent disturbing intrusion of the Vietnam war, Austin Powers love shacks where lust, pathos and opioid dreams collided together creating an endless bachanal.
Instead it descended into Charles Manson, prog rock, Nixon and military defeat....ouch then the real 70's of near economic Kollaps in the West created an art revolution if nothing else.
This brings new and old together sung in his Brooklyn nasal twang; Pipeline, Wizard, Daddy Rolling Stone and Great Big Kiss could have played alongside the Dolls repetoire. The list of collaborators is extensive; Pistols, Hot Rods, Thn Lizzy, Pretenders, Dolls/Heartbreakers, Only Ones, Snatch and Small Faces.
The songs veer from pathos, Can't put your arms around a memory, a song about adolescent bereavement, the eventual split of friendship to "So alone" a paen to loneliness. "Dead or Alive" and "Downtown" are both sleaze rockers. "Subway Train" and "London Boys" are Dolls/Heatbreakers guitar rockers. The last one being a stinging riposte to the Pistols attacks in "New York", ironic as three of the Pistols worked with him, Sid, Paul and Steve.
This has some Brown Sugar thrown into the mix, as a sweetener not the main course. Johhny is more that a wannbe Rolling Stone clone, he was a living Doll. Too far ahead in guitar trash chimes he was caught in a no man's land. Hanoi Rocks, Queensryche and Pam's husband took his boat and sailed away.
White mojo music is the substance along with the Cramps, Gun Club, Ramones, Johnny's duet with Patti Palladin, Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave/BP. Fitting next to Muddy Waters, Johnny Lee Hooker the line travelling back to Robert Johnson.
This was the sound the 60's recoined in the 70's. A time without the violent disturbing intrusion of the Vietnam war, Austin Powers love shacks where lust, pathos and opioid dreams collided together creating an endless bachanal.
Instead it descended into Charles Manson, prog rock, Nixon and military defeat....ouch then the real 70's of near economic Kollaps in the West created an art revolution if nothing else.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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From a performer often castigated as an underachiever, this record is a hell of an achievement! From start to finish, Thunders' superb pop sensibility and 'just right' guitar work is in evidence.
London Boys manages that rare feat: an 'answer' song beating the original (Sex Pistol's 'New York'), Subway Train is just as good to hear yet again in this version, Pipeline makes a good entry piece and just about every other piece makes a damn' solid contribution to a CD I'd not be without.
London Boys manages that rare feat: an 'answer' song beating the original (Sex Pistol's 'New York'), Subway Train is just as good to hear yet again in this version, Pipeline makes a good entry piece and just about every other piece makes a damn' solid contribution to a CD I'd not be without.
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