Eddie And The Hot Rods

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Fish 'N' Chips Used - LP - SW-17037 1980 Original In Shrink And Inner Sleeve. Cut Out Hole. more
	Teenage Depression Used - LP - ILPS 9457 1977 US Original. Tiny Corner Rubs & Small Crease Line At Right Of Jacket Cover. Without Original Inner. "History Records Eddie & The Hot Rods As The Missing Link Between Pub Rock And Punk, And Their Debut Album, Released At The Tail End Of 1976, Proves That Every Word Is True. Young, Loud, Snotty And Incredibly Fast, The Riffs And Rhythms Are Fuel-injected R&b, But The Lyrics Are Teenaged Disaffection With A Forest On Its Shoulders. Even The Album's Covers, The Who's "The Kids Are Alright," Joe Tex's "Show Me," And Sam Cooke's "Shake," Were Selected For Their Swagger, While The Title Track Is A Proto-punk Cry Of Anguish That Makes The Later New-wavers Sound Like A Room Full Of Spoiled Children. The Six-minute Finale, "On The Run," Is Even Stronger, A Dead-end Kid-style Anthem About The Ultimate Outsider -- "The Boy Should Be Pitied, But They're Getting Me Committed." The Fx That Drench The Song's Closing Minutes, Meanwhile, Capture All The Rage And Confusion Of The Lyric, And Give A Hint Of The Sheer Brutal Power That Was The Hot Rods When They Really Let Loose -- A Treat Normally Reserved For The Live Show. Isolated Tastes Of That Particular Beast Do Surface Elsewhere On The Album -- Both "The Kids Are Alright" And "Been So Long" Were Recorded Live At The Marquee On A Baking-hot Night In July 1976; The Dozen Bonus Tracks Appended To The Cd Reissue Include Four More From That Memorable Night, In The Form Of The Legendary Live At The Marquee Ep. Mach 10 Versions Of Van Morrison's "Gloria," Bob Seger's "Get Out Of Denver," ? Mark's "96 Tears," And The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" Further Amplify The Linkage Between '60s Garage And '70s Punk, But, Far More Importantly, They Give At Least A Hint Of Why Witnesses Still Describe That Particular Show Among The Greatest Gigs They Ever Attended. Five Further Tracks Date From A Rainbow Show Nine Months Later, Previously Immortalized On The Aptly Named Live At The Speed Of Sound Ep; The Cd Is Completed By The Band's First Two Singles, Including A Crunchy Cover Of "Wooly Bully," Produced By Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. They, However, Are Simply The Icing On The Cake. In Late 1976, With Punk Still A Flood Of Records Waiting To Happen, Teenage Depression Was One Of The Only Things That Made It Worthwhile To Get Up In The Morning. And The Hot Rods Live Was The Only Thing That Stopped You From Getting Straight Back Into Bed." AMG - Dave Thompson. more
	Teenage Depression Used - LP - ILPS 9457 1977 Original. Tiny Corner Rubs & Some Light Creasing. more
	Thriller Used Import - ILPS 9563 1979 UK Original Still In Shrink With Custom Printed Inner & Poster Inserts. JEM Import Sticker Affixed To Front Cover Under The Shrink. "Forget Everything You've Ever Read About Thriller. Eddie & The Hot Rods' Third Album Arrived In 1979, At A Time When The Band's Own Brand Of High-Octane Punk-Pop Was Wallowing In The Depths Of Unfashionable Retrogression. Live, The Group Was Still The Hottest Thing On Ten Legs, And The First Single From The Album, The Anthemic "The Power And The Glory," Certainly Suggested That The Magic Dispensed By Their Last Set, Life On The Line, Was Still Firmly In Place. But The Album As A Whole Didn't Simply Disappoint, It All But Disappeared And, For 20 Years Thereafter, When Old-Time Fans Discussed The Rods, It Was The First Two Albums That Lay On The Altar. Truly, Nothing Else Mattered. Reissued For The First Time Since Those Dark Days, Thriller Hasn't Simply Improved With Age; It Actually Rivals Its Predecessors, A Fast-Paced, Dramatically Dynamic And, Above All, Deeply Melodic Album That Reiterates Both The Complexity And The Contrary Simplicity That Was The Rods At Their Best. Even Picking Favorites Among The Tracks Is No Longer Easy -- "The Power And The Glory" Still Thrills, But So Do "Media Messiahs," "Breathless," And "Living Dangerously," While The Bonus Tracks, Both Drawn From Period B-Sides, Continue Down The Same Road, To Demonstrate That Whatever Was Wrong With This Record In 1979, It Had Nothing To Do With The Band." AMG - Dave Thompson. more