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This New York aggregation got more of a name for their extracurricular indulgences than for their music, which is a crying shame, since--as this dreadfully recorded, yet brilliant debut proves--they were as potent a rock force as the early punk scene produced. Junkie paeans like "Chinese Rocks" and "Born Too Loose" stagger along with defiant, on-the-edge vitality, due in large part to the street-waif yowl and post-Keef guitar wrangling of leader Johnny Thunders. But don't get the notion that the Heartbreakers were one-trick ponies: Tracks like "All by Myself" and "I Wanna Be Loved" rank with the most poignant rock songs of the era. L.A.M.F. (we're sure you can figure out the acronym) is a foundation piece for any rock collection. --David Sprague
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- Glad They Were Found ! It's Not Enough !
- L.A.M.F.--It's Not Enough!
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L.A.M.F.: The Lost '77 Mixes
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Freud-Jungle Full
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ASIN: B00007MFGI
Release Date: 2003-03-03 |
Tracks:
- Born to Lose
- Baby Talk
- All by Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get off the Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Going Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes on You
- Do You Love Me
Album Description
2002 reissue of classic 1977 album includes a bonus video, 'Chinese Rocks', & a bonus disc, 'Alternative L.A.M.F.', featuring 16 previously unreleased alternate mixes, demos & rehearsals including, 'Born Too Loose', 'Chinese Rocks', 'Let Go', 'Goin' Steady' (Instr.), 'Baby Talk' (Instr.), 'Pirate Love' (Instr.), 'Born To Lose' (Instr.), 'Chinese Rocks' (Instr.), 'Do You Love Me', 'Can't Keep My Eyes On You', 'Get Off The Phone', 'All By Myself', 'It's Not Enough', 'One Track Mind', 'Too Much Junkie Business', & 'London Boys'. Packaging includes a 24-page booklet with complete lyrics, song comments by Walter Lure, & slipcase. Jungle Records.
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Includes a 24 Page Booklet and a Bonus CD.
Customer Reviews:
Glad They Were Found ! It's Not Enough !.......2007-03-15
I LOVE THIS CD !!!! Such a GREAT addition to my collection, especially with such lack of this sound these days!
Unfortunately...I did not appreciate their music "back in the day."
I had many opportunites to see them,living in NYC in the late 70's - late 80's. Soooo glad they found these lost mixes! I repent!
A MUST OWN for anyone that appreciates raw, classic, gritty rock + roll.
This collection should be held in the highest regard,along with the other classics like The Stones, Yardbirds, The Seeds, The Kinks, + The Ramones.
Johnny Thunder's guitar solo + vocals on It's Not Enough...WOW!!! Reminds me of The Stones, Child of the Moon, but BETTER! He really "goes out" + gives his all. GREAT piece of Rock + Roll with JT's emotions on his sleeve! It's bone chilling!
Chinese Rocks, Born to Lose, + Do You Love Me are rare treats for those who love the "old sound rock + roll."
These classics can NEVER be duplicated, + are so impotant for anyone who appreciates only the finest !
J.T. + Heartbreakers will never again be lost to me!
I hope many people discover this CD.
Written In Loving Memory of Johnny Thunders + band.
L.A.M.F.--It's Not Enough!.......2007-03-01
Up from the red-leather remains of the New York Dolls rose the Heartbreakers, founded by ex-Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders (né Genzale) and handsome-devil drummer Jerry Nolan in 1975. Leaving their former band members in Florida with some guy named McLaren so they could score smack back in the Big Apple, Johnny and Jerry tapped proto-punk poster-boy Richard Hell for their new ensemble. CBGBs and Max's Kansas City were their battlefields and they were an integral part of this febrile, fertile spawning ground. You know the litany of names: the Ramones, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc. etc. Though Hell froze up and departed, the Heartbreakers, eventually released only one album, the sonically-challenged "L.A.M.F." in 1977. This recent mix, from re-discovered tapes, sounds wonderful, less muddy, and all sleaze.
What makes the Heartbreakers great is simplicity. They reduced twenty years of rock and pop and rhythm and blues into 3 minute rave-ups that always leave the listener wanting more. Johnny's guitar-slinging rings true, always teetering on the edge of collapse: it's chaotic and exhilarating. Blistering leads, solos that sound like a strangling cat, chugging rhythms like the subway trains roaring beneath the city streets.
Songs like "Get Off the Phone," "Going Steady," "Baby Talk," and "Let Go" are trashy rock'n'roll rave-ups, with all the requisite elements: catchy choruses, sleazy good-time lyrics (the ones that make sense, anyway; Johnny weren't no English perfessor), driving drums, and immediate gratification. A song like "One Track Mind" is a beautiful thing, all irresistible chorus and air-guitar glory. "It's Not Enough": is a reflective ballad-sorta thing, with Johnny lamenting how "You can give me this/You can give me that" but it's not enough. Man it's good! "Pirate Love" exists only for the dual-guitar solo that rivals anything the Dolls ever laid down.
Then there are the classics, the signature tunes that no Johnny Thunders performance was complete without: "Born to Lose," (or, alternately "Born Too Loose") which opens the album: with some out-of-tune guitar whines, and the lyrics reveals again just what a poet of the streets Johnny was: "Nothin' to do/Oh nothin' to say/Only one thing that I want/It's the only way/I said hit it!/Baby I was born to lose."
"Chinese Rocks" is perhaps Thunders' most famous song even though it was written by fellow junkster Dee Dee Ramone. Anyone unsure as to what the song refers can be sure, it ain't nothing like Pop Rocks.
"The plaster's fallin off the walls
My girlfriend's cryin in the shower stall
It's hot as a bitch
I shoulda been rich
But I'm just diggin a Chinese ditch
I'm livin on Chinese rocks
All my best things are in hock
I'm livin on Chinese rocks
Everything is in the pawn shop"
These songs depict the downside of downtown and how the jungle could eat you alive. Johnny's status as a stylish, decadent loser who strutted those mean streets is legendary. As Wayne Kramer (MC5) said of Johnny: "He could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
The Heartbreakers weren't really a punk band, even though they rounded out the legendary Anarchy tour of the UK in late '76 with a couple bands you mighta heard of, the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Rumor has it--actually, it's more than rumor, it's fact--that the Heartbreakers introduced heroin to the much younger and more naive UK punks, and Nancy Spungen went looking for Jerry Nolan and followed them there. You know what happened after that.
The band was never able to secure a record deal with an American label due to their, uh, extracurricular activities, so eventually they broke up. Johnny would put out a decidedly mixed solo album a year later ("So Alone") and continue to travel the world as a performer. Shows were plagued by his drug use, his attitude, his poor guitar-playing. I never got to see him perform, and odds are that if I had, I'd've seen a shambles of a set. Although a friend saw him in the mid-80s and remembers the acoustic set Johnny did as particularly entertaining. In April of 1991 Johnny Thunders was hauled out of a grimy New Orleans hotel, his lifeless body doubled over from the effects of countless drugs. It's not enough, is it, Johnny? No, I guess it never is.
Well, all that don't matter. What does matter is that if you care about real rock'n'roll you need this album. It rocks like nothing else I know, but fits kinda between the Stones and the Replacements (whose "Johnny's Gonna Die" is an ode to Thunders), G'n'R, Hanoi Rocks, very early Crue and other hard rock of the '80s. Practically every hard-rock/glam/metal guitarist that tosses a mane of out-of-control hair with a sneer and screech copped it from Johnny (who of course copped it from Keith Richards, let's be honest here). Johnny deserves to be remembered for his single-minded rock tunes, his dedication to the rock'n'roll lifestyle, and also for one of the coolest rock "nom de guerres" ever--I mean, "Johnny Thunders" how cool is that?! Thanks Johnny Rock on RIP!
i shoulda been rich..........2007-02-06
This album was the eye opener for me in '77. These guys rocked it, and lived it, like nobody else's business. Walter's guitar style complimented Johnny's like they were twin brothers. And, it's fun to figure out who played what on which track, although Johnny (the musical genius) is almost always evident. What the world really needs is more bass and drums like Jerry and Billy played it. Simple, powerful, succinct. I was lucky enough to see The Heartbreakers live. They changed my life for the better.
Johnny Thunders&The Heartbreakers - 'L.A.M.F.:The Lost '77 Mixes' (Freud-Jungle).......2006-11-05
This is maybe the third Johnny Thunders CD I've ever heard.Certainly can see WHY there have been so numerous titles of his put out.The late New York Dolls guitarist can certainly give the fans what they want.Total of fourteen good old school All American tracks here to wet appetite with.Most impressive cuts are "Baby Talk","It's Not Enough",the very NY Dolls-ish "Pirate Love",the rocking "Let Go" and the Berry Gordy cover "Do You Love Me".Line-up:Johnny Thunders-guitar&vocals,Billy Rath-bass,Walter Lure-guitar&vocals and fellow Dolls alumni Jerry Nolan-drums.Do check it out.
Second Review.......2006-05-16
After giving this album a second run, I change my opinion. This is a pretty good album, and the newer mix brings it all together. And while I still believe that "So Alone" and the Dolls first album are superior, I've come to appreciate this album on its own terms. Better than most other punk. High level of musicianship on Johnny's part (no pun intended.)
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- this eats you for breakfast
- Heroin Punk from NYC's finest
- Like A M.F.
- One of punk's finest
- After all these years......still a great album
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ASIN: B00004YTZE
Release Date: 2000-10-10 |
Tracks:
- Born To Lose
- Baby Talk
- All By Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get Off The Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Goin' Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes On You
- Do You Love Me
Album Description
Reissue of the classic punk album originally released in 1977. Now an enhanced CD featuring the PC & Mac compatible video for 'Chinese Rocks'. Packaged in the original artwork, includes 12-page booklet. 1994 release. Standard jewel case.
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this eats you for breakfast.......2005-08-29
theres no question that this is the best punk album. this eats the pistols for breakfast, and the clash look like a bunch of women. if you think you like the dolls, you'll actually like this better. this is actually getting a bit of publicity, since "pirate love," which happens to be the best song in the universe, is played during a skateboard video by FLIP skateboards for Ali Boulala's part. Walter Lure's songs are kickass too, its not just thunders. It all rocks. buy it you fool, it'll make you happy
Heroin Punk from NYC's finest.......2005-03-23
After the break up of the New York Dolls in 1975 drummer Jerry Nolan and guitarist Johnny Thunders formed the Heartbreakers. Along with the brilliant Walter Lure on guitar, the band went to the UK in 1976 to open shows for The Sex Pistols' Anarchy Tour.
While most gigs were cancelled Johnny and Jerry were able to introduce the young British punks to heroin.
Every young punk rocker idolized Johnny Thunders and wanted to be like him so they all jumped in head-first into his lifestyle.
1977 The Heartbreakers cut thier only album, L.A.M.F. (Like A Motherfu....). The origional mix was murky but in 1994 Thunders' friends and fans found the origional tapes and remixed them into this top notch hard rocking disc (the final two cuts are bonus tracks not on the origional album).
While all his followers died from drug overdoses (Sid Vicious, a few guys from The Pretenders, etc.) Johnny carried on putting out a new album every few years while focusing all his attention on staying loaded until he finally ODed in 1991. Jerry Nolan followed him a few months later.
Sad story of the man Richard Hell called, "The Dean Martin of heroin" but he is a legend and this album is a classic.
Like A M.F. .......2004-12-13
After eagerly anticipating my boldness to bite the bullet and purchase the relatively expensive import C.D., I finally picked it up last night. And after listening to it over and over already, it is safe to say this is certainly one of the best punk albums of all-time. Anyone initiated with Johnny Thunders knows that he is the epitime of a wrecking-ball rock 'n' roller. The tunes on this album, sloppy, loud, fast, and yet still hopeless romatic, play like Rolling Stones demos if they had rocked a little harder and lived a little bit wilder. The fourteen tracks on this album are each fantastic, especially "Born To Lose", the Dee Dee Ramone-written drug song "Chinese Rock" (originally the Ramones thought it too blatant to put on one of their albums, so Dee Dee let Thunders do it, and it later appeared on their Spector-produced "End Of The Century"), "I Wanna Be Loved" (Not the Elvis Costello tune), "Get Off The Phone", and the all-out rocking cover of "Do You Love Me." The production is perfectly raw. They play their instruments and sing as though they've been doing it for five days straight, and they don't wanna slow down. To put it simply, this album is very necassary to anybody who likes punk-rock, or simply rock 'n' roll with an edge.
One of punk's finest.......2004-11-21
Good punk album elevated to great due to the new remixes. Personally, I feel this is right up there with "Rocket to Russia", "Blank Generation", and "Talking Heads '77" as a classic American punk album. There is a certain joy to the rock 'n' roll sounds that are captured on this album, and it is certainly the best post-Dolls Thunders release. I had heard a few of the original mixes, and quite frankly they were below par. The guitars and lyrics sound blurry. Thankfully, someone decided to show us all how it was truly a great album despite it's sound imperfections by remixing it. As the story of the band goes, the album failed to make a good amount of money, and they broke up. I guess the song "Born to Lose" is a little prophetic.
After all these years......still a great album.......2003-02-03
I had this album on vinyl as a kid, and played the [...] out of it. I saw it was now on cd and just had to buy it. Its still great, and has influenced so many musicians over the years such as: The Jones, The Humpers, 8 Foot Tender, etc. If you own a New York Doll album, buy this one too. Also check out Johnny's So Alone album.
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L.A.M.F.: The Lost '77 Mixes
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Jungle Freud
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ASIN: B00007LL3L
Release Date: 1995-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Born to Lose
- Baby Talk
- All by Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get off the Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Going Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes on You
- Do You Love Me
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L.A.M.F: The Lost '77 Mixes
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Track
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ASIN: B000J45V2Y |
Product Description
UK issue, Tracks: 1. Born to Lose
2. Baby Talk
3. All by Myself
4. I Wanna Be Loved
5. It's Not Enough
6. Chinese Rocks
7. Get off the Phone
8. Pirate Love
9. One Track Mind
10. I Love You
11. Going Steady
12. Let Go
13. Can't Keep My Eyes on You
14. Do You Love Me
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Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Jungle Freud
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ASIN: B000024NS2
Release Date: 1995-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Born to Lose
- Baby Talk
- All by Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get off the Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Going Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes on You
- Do You Love Me
Album Description
Full title, 'L. A. M. F. - The Lost '77 Mixes'. UK enhanced CD reissue of 1994 compilation of long-lost recordings from the 'L.A.M.F.' sessions. Repackaged in the original artwork, plus 12-page booklet with comprehensive sleeve-notes by Thunders' biograph
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Perfection.......2002-01-06
There are many great records. You may own several of them. But for rock and roll's greatest you must purchase this.Johnny Thunders herein distilled rock and roll to its essense: joyous and furtive; a celebration of love, yet a snarl of independence; tight and directed but more sheets-to-the-wind than a Kansas clothesline.This is the place to start if you have been raised on popular music and want to know if there is life beyond the farina fed to you.I recommend this beyond question---and cannot understand if you do not order it.
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Manufacturer: Cleopatra
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ASIN: B00005IAOF
Release Date: 2002-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Born to Lose
- Baby Talk
- All by Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get off the Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Going Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes on You
- Do You Love Me
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The DEFINITIVE L.A.M.F!.......2006-01-10
Quick history lesson. I hope you can keep up:
1977: L.A.M.F. comes out with a horrible, muddy mix. It was so bad that Jerry Nolan, the drummer, quit the band.
1984: L.A.M.F. is remixed by Johnny Thunders and sounds surprisingly fresh and clean. Retitled, L.A.M.F. Revisited, it sounds very good. Some say it's a little too "glossy" to represent how The Heartbreakers actually laid it down.
1997: Hundreds of different mixes were sorted through and the hardest, punchiest versions were remixed and put out under the title: "L.A.M.F: The Lost '77 Mixes."
This is the version you want! The druums hit HARD like a punch to the gut and each track manages to rock harder and with more power than on "Revisited." JT may have been pushing for a more "mainstream-friendly" mix when he worked on "Revisited," but I feel that some of The Heartbreakers' power was drained from that version. You WANT The Lost '77 Mixes. This is how the original release could have/should have sounded. Incredible.
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Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Manufacturer: Freud-Jungle Full
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ASIN: B00008OTU9
Release Date: 2003-02-26 |
Tracks:
- Born to Lose
- Baby Talk
- All by Myself
- I Wanna Be Loved
- It's Not Enough
- Chinese Rocks
- Get off the Phone
- Pirate Love
- One Track Mind
- I Love You
- Going Steady
- Let Go
- Can't Keep My Eyes on You
- Do You Love Me
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L.A.M.F Lost 77 Mixes
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000A2PL9I
Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
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