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Over the course of the long, hot summer of 1976 it seemed that Southend's Eddie And The Hot Rods were embarking on a one-way trip to superstardom. Considered to be a younger and more exuberant version of gritty, R&B pub rockers Dr Feelgood, they were serially smashing attendance records during a prolonged Marquee Club residency while effortlessly making the longhaired status quo an anachronism. Yet, to echo their debut single, there was already a good deal of "Writing On The Wall" for the Rods, as their Marquee support band, the Sex Pistols, were about to consign them to the cultural dumper. This debut collection however, catches the quartet on the crest of an upwardly-mobile wave where everything still seemed possible, and their edgy, blazing energy is both tangible and infectious. From "Get Across To You" to "On The Run", Teenage Depression remains a hot and sweaty, rough and ready, pub rock classic. --Ian Fortnam
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Though they were a crucial factor in the birth of British punk, by the time the Sex Pistols and the Clash exploded ontothe scene, Eddie & the Hot Rods were already fading into obscurity. Along with peers like Dr. Feelgood and the Kursaal Flyers, they helped create the British pub-rock sound of themid-'70s, a sound exemplified by TEENAGE DEPRESSION. Like UK bands a decade earlier, Eddie & the Hot Rods updated American R&B, with a harder edge and no-nonsense approach that was at odds with the prog-rock then ruling the roost.
Covers of Joe Tex ("Show Me") and Sam Cooke ("Shake") share spacewith similarly inclined original tunes written by Hot Rods guitarist Dave Higgs (moniker to the contrary, there's actually no "Eddie" in the group). Despite the integrity of the band's chugging, unpretentious sound, the more savage sound of punk rock instantly made them seem outdated, condemning Eddie & the Hot Rods to the realm of historical footnotes. Thankfully, TEENAGE DEPRESSION remains to remind us of this important chapter in rock & roll history.
Over the course of the long, hot summer of 1976 it seemed that Southend's Eddie And The Hot Rods were embarking on a one-way trip to superstardom. Considered to be a younger and more exuberant version of gritty, R&B pub rockers Dr Feelgood, they were serially smashing attendance records during a prolonged Marquee Club residency while effortlessly making the longhaired status quo an anachronism. Yet, to echo their debut single, there was already a good deal of "Writing On The Wall" for the Rods, as their Marquee support band, the Sex Pistols, were about to consign them to the cultural dumper. This debut collection however, catches the quartet on the crest of an upwardly-mobile wave where everything still seemed possible, and their edgy, blazing energy is both tangible and infectious. From "Get Across To You" to "On The Run", Teenage Depression remains a hot and sweaty, rough and ready, pub rock classic. --Ian Fortnam
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Though they were a crucial factor in the birth of British punk, by the time the Sex Pistols and the Clash exploded ontothe scene, Eddie & the Hot Rods were already fading into obscurity. Along with peers like Dr. Feelgood and the Kursaal Flyers, they helped create the British pub-rock sound of themid-'70s, a sound exemplified by TEENAGE DEPRESSION. Like UK bands a decade earlier, Eddie & the Hot Rods updated American R&B, with a harder edge and no-nonsense approach that was at odds with the prog-rock then ruling the roost.
Covers of Joe Tex ("Show Me") and Sam Cooke ("Shake") share spacewith similarly inclined original tunes written by Hot Rods guitarist Dave Higgs (moniker to the contrary, there's actually no "Eddie" in the group). Despite the integrity of the band's chugging, unpretentious sound, the more savage sound of punk rock instantly made them seem outdated, condemning Eddie & the Hot Rods to the realm of historical footnotes. Thankfully, TEENAGE DEPRESSION remains to remind us of this important chapter in rock & roll history.
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