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Life on the Line

~ Eddie & The Hot Rods
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (22 Sep 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Captain Oi
  • ASIN: B00004SDMJ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,078 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Do Anyting You Wanna Do
2. Quit This Town
3. Telephone Girl
4. Whats Really Going On
5. Ignore Them (Still Life)
6. Life On The LIne
7. (And)Don't Believe Your Eyes
8. We Sing...The Cross
9. Beginning Of The End
10. I Might Be Lying
11. Ignore Them (Always Crashing In The Same Bar)
12. Schoolgirl Love
13. Till The Night Is Gone (Lets Rock) (With Robin Tyner)
14. Flipside Rock (With Robin Tyner)
15. Do Anything You Wanna Do (Live)
16. Whats Really Going On (live)
17. Why Can't It Be (Live)
18. Distortion May Be Expected

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Amazon.co.uk Review
When phalanxes of expectorating, spike-topped pariahs shattered the pipe-dreams of the Thames blues delta's proudest sons, they simply picked themselves up, brushed themselves down and produced a sophomore album of rare vision. Life On The Line saw the band stepping away from their traditionalist R&B roots and infusing their short, sharp stabs of sparkling twelve-bar riffage with a little MC5 adrenaline. Despite stylistically swimming against the punk rock tide, they even managed to produce one of 1977's ultimate Zeitgeist-defining anthems with the inspiring self-affirmation of "Do Anything You Wanna Do". The addition of second guitarist and ex Kursaal Flyer Graeme Douglas not only served to fatten the band's hitherto weedy sound, but also fleshed out their covers-heavy repertoire with a much-needed injection of song-writing muscle and flair. Classic album or not, the Rods swiftly collapsed under punk's unstoppable onslaught, with bassist Paul Gray ultimately jumping ship for the Damned. Ian Fortnam

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Classic, 3 April 2006
I first bought this album in the seventies when it first came out on vinyl. I cannot overestimate the brilliance of it. The sound is ageless, the songs superb and the guitar playing of Graham Douglas is breathtaking. What a difference he makes to the songs. This is a fast paced, pulse racing album of incredibly powerful songs jam packed full of powerful guitar riffs by Douglas. This guy is so good. I am a guitar player and Douglas makes this album for me. It is a classic and will definitely get your adrenalin racing. Don't bother with their other albums. Yes I listen to Satriani, Vai and all the others, but I would consider this as a guitarists album too because Graham Douglas' fills and solos are perfect.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Distortion May Be Expected', 28 Oct 2008
By Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews
And so, your humble reviewers recent obsession with 'caveman music' comes to an inevitable head.
The last 'Lost Chord' you might say.

I'm fully aware, (and racked with guilt!) that I should be reviewing the magnificent 'Ken Russell at the BBC' dvd box-set albeit with the hotly anticipated 'Dance of the Seven Veils' sadly omitted. (Strauss urging his orchestra to play louder to drown out the screams of Jews being tortured was controversial to say the least in 1970, but almost 40 years later we're still being denied a chance to form our own opinion.)
I should be hunched at the flickering keyboard, sweat on brow, divulging to the masses the profligate tenebrous and genius sweep of 'Elgar', 'Song of Summer' and 'the Debussy Film'.

So what are Eddie and the Hot Rods doing invading my Dante improvs and Isadora Duncan fascinations? Taking me forcibly away from writing about the finest dvd release of the decade, and compelling me to scribble about horrid old rock'n'roll.

In this case - Pub-rock; the ultimate manifestation of caveman music - in fact, it's so far down the music evolutionary scale, it's still underwater.
This stuff is so basic, I can only think of 3 or 4 other groups in the whole genre (you think I'm gonna name them - ha ha!).

The Ess philosophy specifies no junk, so how is this shamelessly loud mound of power-pop (another phrase likely to have yer average music fan fleeing to the mountains, but I'll chance it.) accruing the magical 5 vermillion Amazon review stars?

Easily. Eddie and the Hot Rods, sounding I AM aware, like some insane George Thorogood tribute act, are in fact, boil-impacted cousins of those other standard-baring R&B loud-mouths Dr Feelgood.
The Hot Rods leaven their row with pop as opposed to the Feelgood's old style blues - and the results are tremendous. The 9 original album cuts, plus singles and oddities are Doc Marten to the groin, bottle over the head, punch in the solar plexus outstanding.
They rant past at speeds approaching burn, stripped down to the rust. Fierce rock guitar, classic rhythm section, earthy singer; no affectations, this is the McCoy like no other.
Symphonies of best bitter, nicotine-stained pictures of Her Majesty and the winners enclosure at Aintree, signed photo's of Johnny Kidd and P J Proby with his ripped trousers.

'Do Anything You Wanna Do' (is this the GREATEST song ever recorded?) 'Quit This Town', 'Ignore Them', 'Don't Believe Your Eyes', and the bruising 8 minutes of the glorious set-closing 'Beginning of the End'.
Each and every one a slice of single-malt infused, Senior Service impregnated noise-nostalgia.

No-one will ever make a music like this again - no one is prepared to take the pain and strain for little or no gain. In the gimmick and idiosyncratic reliant I-pod and download culture we inhabit, the very idea just seems further and further away.

If just one of you in sterile cyber-land buys this on the strength of this review-I'll rest easy, my responsibilities discharged for a while. And I can leave the simple but highly addictive worlds of the caveman and the pub-rocker and return to Ken Russell, who's been waiting since the 60's.....
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