Search - Johnny Thunders :: Anthology

Ridiculously slapdash

bansheedd | England | 11/20/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Looks like a good retrospective of Johnny's music... It isn't. The printed track listing gives songs the wrong titles, and some are live or demo versions without being identified as such. All of the LAMF songs are the original (muddy) mixes.



What you actually get:

Jet Boy (New York Dolls demo)

Born to Lose (from LAMF)

Chinese Rocks (from LAMF)

It's Not Enough (from LAMF)

Pirate Love (from LAMF)

Born to Cry (from Copy Cats)

Pipeline (live)

I Only Wrote This Song for You (from Que Sera Sera)

You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (live, cuts off after the first chorus)

Little Bit of Whore (from Que Sera Sera)

MIA (from Que Sera Sera)

Get Off the Phone (from LAMF)

London Boys (Heartbreakers demo)

Too Much Junkie Business (Heartbreakers demo)

Personality Crisis (live, from Born Too Loose - at the end you get the beginning of the next track from that CD, Johnny talking to the audience at the start of an acoustic set)

Crawfish (from Copy Cats)

Hurt Me (unreleased studio version from Born Too Loose)

One Track Mind (from LAMF)



I'm tempted to give this four stars, since at least the music is still good."

Calling all Punk Fans

Bones | Deptford, NJ | 04/25/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"where to start y'all. If you like JT, if you ever wanted to check the guy out, if you like the NY Dolls, if you like old punk, if you like Rock N Roll guitar, get this CD. It has the best collection of Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers hits from long deleted vinyl singles,B-sides, live albums, and full length albums that are near impossible to get on cd. While every song rules, "Pirate Love", the Ramones co-written "Chinese Rocks", and acoustic "...Arms Around A Memory" standout.While most newly released JT cd's are mearly low quality bootlegs of the same few shows, where JT is usually "Out of it" this collection focuses on him at his wonderful best. Get it, rock out, then search for his other releases. You will like this if you are a Clash, Hanoi, NY Doll, Ramones, Pistols fan!@#"