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RS: 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All-Time
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Originally Released in 1977, this was Richard Hell's First Album. This reissue contains two bonus tracks, plus an alternate take of "Down at the Rock and roll Club" in place of the album version.
If the title track didn't sum up an entire generation, it certainly captured the frazzled swagger of early punk rock. Launched from New York City's famous C.B.G.B. nightclub, the Voidoids released this debut in 1977, around the same time as Television's Marquee Moon. A rewrite of an old cornball Beat song, "Blank Generation" echoes the Sex Pistols's cries of "no future." "Love Comes in
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Manufacturer: Sire / Warner
Release date: 18 May 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992613729 UPC: 075992613729
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Release date: 18 May 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992613729 UPC: 075992613729
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RS: 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All-Time (40 music items)"Television co-founder Richard Hell pretty much invented what he called the "patchy raggedness" of punk fashion and hair care. When he went solo on Blank Generation, he enlisted Robert Quine, a Velvet Underground fanatic whose appropriately jagged guitar style was ideal for anti-love songs "Betrayal Takes Two" and "Love Comes in Spurts." And with the title track, Hell gave us what might be punk's ultimate anthem of liberation ripped from the void."