Love Comes In Spurts

[udohood]

the way they decided to have the chorus be sung is unexpected...like when you sing along it takes a bit of work...this band received NO press...they were together about a years time.......from thie first moment they hit the stage in 1975 they were the model; Blondie adopted there stage drag....the Lyrics could not be heard.....when they came around so did all the little cuties from the NY Dolls ......their  finesse turn the atmosphere like an opium den

[jonjuliecat]

love richard hell

[MrDorianstone]

i love this version...its new to me !!

[haupper]

I was fourteen and a half and it wasn't no laugh. (but that line is.)

[rknepel]

i always thought they were saying "lovebombs in space." the title argues otherwise.. i'm a little disappointed.

[elementz1986]

@rknepel

Holy Shit! I thought the same EXACT thing the first time I heard it!

[pandaeyes42]

@rknepel

I love misheard lyrics! I always thought it was 'love gods in space'!

First heard this on the soundtrack for the timeless and awesome movie "Pump Up The Volume".

[Beatnikzombie]

I like the Voidoids version better.

[tatunkha]

This is more melodic to the Voidoids record thanks for the upload.

[jfpOne23]

omg...I love this version...and I'm one of the original buy ins

[clementles]

I've got a one track mind...

[scobiedog1]

prefer the more melodious vocals in the voidoids version.

[scobiedog1]

had this track but by richard hell & the voidoids on a free flexidisc with nme. anyone remember them!

[luvumo2day]

today I made some money,it's like this,see,it also like every thing is linked to pain,and it comes in spurts

[trancentralovertone]

it murders your heart

they didn´t tell you that part

[tjackson76]

pump up the volume

[Alphabex8]

after this i just can't accept the Ramones always being credited as the first punks...nope. isn't this originally Neon Boys btw?

[casACTTT]

one track mind hahaha

[a99999z]

Thanks for posting, I listened to this constantly when I was 17.

[darthsarth]

yeah... old school punk is the shit! Too bad mainstream is crap these days... We're these guys mainstream back when they were around, I'm pretty sure MTV wasnt around, but were they well known during their time??

This shit is rockin' though!!!!!

[dweebieMC]

this is easily the best love song of all time - no joke.

[dweebieMC]

punk rock is the best rock

[kidcalabria]

The comparisons between this and The Heartbreakers' One Track Mind are laughable crap for 10-year-olds. # 1) This is only a demo 2) The Walter Lure song is derived from this 3) Music is not a sport with winners and losers 4) Hell's lyrics go much deeper, dealing with the prevailing idea we generally have of romantic love 5) "Who needs Hell when you have JT"? This is not a competition. Richard Hell was a true original, an artist, the Blank Generation album is a classic

Thanx for the post

[L74L]

@kidcalabria

couldn't have said it better myself.

[cosmicthunderboy]

johnny y richard (L)

[motthead69]

absolutely awesome man!...JT was the best, man!...

[andymccoy78]

I totally agree guys, but when Hell hitted the spot, like in Love Comes in Spurts, it gets really hard to state who's better than who...

[tatethompson1234]

I rather have Walter Lure's One Track Mind,lyrics are better and goes with the riff better.

[SEANDI777]

Yep.

[dweebieMC]

@tatethompson1234 are you crazy? these lyrics are some of the cleverest, most truthful, and most honest ever to grace the microphone on a love song. this is punk rock love at it's finest - a bleeding heart rebuttal to the cheap love of bullshit hippie delusion. the voidoids were only an OK band, but you can't fuck with rich hell when it comes to lyrics. you just can't touch him...

[tatethompson1234]

@dweebieMC Some of the best ever? No way dude. It's good but not that great. Thank god Walter wrote the lyrics to One Track Mind. Even Walter,Jerry,Johnny have said Hell was a poet not a rock front man. For love songs, id say Light My Fire by The Doors is the best one.

[dweebieMC]

@tatethompson1234 dude I'm just talking about the lyrics. you yourself admitted hell was pretty much a poet (hint: he had a brilliant way with words). so I actually think we agree here - I think one track mind is a better rock 'n roll song, but when it comes to lyrics alone I think these are great. fair enough?

[tatethompson1234]

@dweebieMC Yes, Hell was a good lyric writer, just One Track Mind's lyrics go better with the song. I do like The Voidoids,but fair enough we agree,just midunderstood each other haha.

[ZLUGGO]

Hate comes with sports.

[DeeDeeVerlaine]

Haha. Yeah, I know.

[tatethompson1234]

im so glad the heartbreakers kicked richard hell,his voice and lyrics dident fit with the heartbreakers,walter lure lyrics fit much better and also johnny was a frontman than richard hell

[tatethompson1234]

i dont know why i got 2 thumbs down,you listen to them doing chinese rocks? with hell it was well hell haha,richard moved on and did his band witch gave us good music,hell leaving the heartbreakers was a good thing

[penthouse10]

@tatethompson1234 absolutely agree man...who

needs Richard Hell when you got JT (now you only got 1 thumbs down)

[tatethompson1234]

Exactly,then Hell went onto form a band witch gave us good music too,so it was all for the best

[ZLUGGO]

@tatethompson1234

Richard had stage fright, right?

[JabberOff]

I'm with you on this brother. Richard Hell wanted to do art, which contradicted the aesthetic of the Heartbreakers. He ragged on Johnny Thunders for wanting to write and perform rock n' roll tunes "Going Steady", which makes sense considering the weirder atmosphere found on "Blank Generation" (like the song we're listening to here).

And let's be real here: Johnny Thunders is the closest thing punk ever had to a Chuck Berry, and I for one am eternally thankful that him and Lure recorded LAMF.

[ZLUGGO]

Great choice. It was also recorded by the Void-Oids.

[Sluggard]

This is strange to me ... It is the voice of Richard Hell, it's the lyrics of "Love Comes In Spurts", but it's the tune of "One Track Mind" ...

[jdowd22]

yeah i know what the hell, must be early heartbreakers when they were screwing around with the song maybe?

[ZLUGGO]

@Sluggard

I don't think that is a coincidence.

[Helke23]

Funny how, after Hell left the group, Thunders and his fellow Heartbreakers retooled the song into "One Track Mind" (off "L.A.M.F."). Exact same tune, albeit different lyrics...

[JabberOff]

I prefer "One Track Mind".

[DeeDeeVerlaine]

The lyrics are are very very true...

[jhonwanegasey]

at the start looks alot like a dk photo iv seen

[DeeDeeVerlaine]

It is a neon boys song

[gymrachel]

says it all, over n out

[brownstoned74]

this was a television song before reforming, as the heartbreakers. it may even be a neon boys song. one of the originals richard hell and tom verlaine made...

[artguiness]

Brill - thanks for the lyrics as well

[waltzingpeter]

jeez this sounds much faster than the ones i got.

[steurun]

karlsquell karlsquell AAAAAAAHHH !!!

[greattsutom]

かっこいいーーーー

[motthead69]

kakko ii!!....it means COOL!....

[AlcuinHimself]

The Richard Hell and the Void Oids version is on a compilation album called "New Wave" that came out in late 1976 - it also has the Talking Heads' "Love Goes to Building on Fire", Patti Smith's "Piss Factory", the Skyhooks "Horror Movie", a coupla Ramones tracks, the New York Dolls' "Personality Crisis", the Damned's "New Rose". In fact, I think it's one of my all time favourite albums.

[motthead69]

I'd like to hear the Voidoids version of "Personality Crisis"..

[SecretAgentSlothman]

Walter Lure's best song! I wish the whole '75 demo session would get issued on CD, it's fantastic, and serious historical value.

[8754richard]

This isn't a Walter Lure song, but a Richard Hell song who also sings it. One Track Mind is a Walter Lure song and the music of that song is very similar to this one.

[8754richard]

This song is on a Richard Hell album, but it is also on a Heartbreakersbootleg called the Yonkersdemos with demos from 1975.

[SecretAgentSlothman]

Hey, thanks a LOT! I've had those demos on a cassette for years, but not in the quality of the Yonkers Demos! Awesome!

But I swear, compared to here, and my old tape, it seems a little slow; yet both versions of Love Comes In Spurts read 2:45 just like this one! maybe it's the wonderful swishing sound this one has, like my old R.I.P. tape!

Cheers!

[8754richard]

Hi, that's okay. If you want to hear some more great Heartbreakersdemos, you should get the Down to Kill boxset, which is a official release. On disc one there are demos from 1975 and 1976 and those are other demos then the Yonkerdemos and has some great demos such as Born to Lose(sounds much different then the one on LAMF)and more. On disc 2 there is the legendary speakeasyshow,only here are more songs(15)because both sets that were played that evening are on this disc.

[8754richard]

And there is also a bonusdvd that is 50 minutes long and that has some footage of the Lyceumconcert which isn't on the Dead or Alivedvd(and here the songs aren't overdubbed). And also some songs from the Marquee 1984 and a some acoustic studiostuff with Thunders solo. Well maybe you already have it, but if you don't have it and you like the Heartbreakers you should get it.

[SecretAgentSlothman]

Oh thanks, I got the DTK set and the LAMF Lost Mixes and all that, but thanks for recommending! yeah, The Heartbreakers ruled!

[SecretAgentSlothman]

Well Walter Lure wrote the music; that's why he retained it for One Track Mind. I don't personally like Hell's version of this as much, from his debut LP.

Yonkers Demos? Thanks! I gotta look for that.

[MarqueeMoon95]

I'm fourteen and a half and he's right. Richard Hell is a genius and one day I will persuade my parents to let me get my hair cut like him. Even though I'm a girl.

[DikkSteini]

BE YOURSELF.

[karikolada]

i like this.

[lanalgadelanalga]

Desde Agentinaaa!! Muy buena cancion y muy buen grupo, mucho mejor que lo que vino despues, tanto richard hell solista, como johny thunders y los heartbreakers sin Hell, de todos modos me justan todas las versioness..A belong to the Blank Generation...I can take it or leave it each time!!!!!!

[Robilar]

Holy MUTHA-BUGGERIN' APE HUMPIN' SNOT!

Thanks!!! for this, man!

[chifour66]

I never got to see them, but listened to this til I wore it out. My first BF gave it to me. LOL. I feel old, too.

[crass911]

I gotta one track spurt

[dadswizz]

i was listening to all this from over there waiting for the pistols and clash to break. .great stuff. .for music junkies. .thanks for the up-load. .cheers. .

[theebadnun]

i remember this song in the movie pump up the volume

[jhonwanegasey]

dead kennedys riped off this photo

[misterhuman]

link? things from similar scenes around the world have a way of resembling each other without being deliberate ripoffs. like who started the 'big elbows w/hand gestures" thing in hip hop? or the "3/4 profile while hugging myself" thing? those are poses that about a million hip hop musicians have struck for photos. were they all ripoffs but that first guy? (cont'd)

[misterhuman]

dang, forgot about youtube discussions not being threaded. well that was in reply to jhonwanegasey below. and here's the rest: it was the same way with the "I'm so bored I'm going to lean on my bandmate" pose. it was part of the era. the idea that the Dead Kennedys were specifically trying to look like a Voidoids pic is silly. both bands were trying to look punk as it had been defined by everyone there at the time.

[strangeparty]

The Dead Kennedy's ripped off everything they ever did. I hate second and third generation CA punk bands. They all just blindly imitated the London and NY scenes, instead of creating something of their own.

[pbrskater26]

wow cool song, so this was realy old school punk right

[bobgure]

I saw them at CB's when they were still a trio. The next gig Walter was there. They were the most depraved looking bunch ever. the Club still had the pool table and "lou reeds'" dog.

I'm an old fuck but I saw it all. Bully for me.

[nrjan]

I'm also an ol'fuck who seen a lot. Seen richie in '82 somewhere in europe. He smoked too much green grass, so he liked it. We were less impressed, but he was o.k. Next national feast (Queensday) we'll play a cover, problably "lowest common dominator'. Search for ROTTE VIS '77 for some more European small town tributes !!!

[ZLUGGO]

Fabulous tune.

[ClashCityRockers0]

Damn right

[coldironhands1]

thanks soo much for uploading this i havn't heard it in a while, is it on a heart breakers demo or on the album where they're called The Junkies

[ClashCityRockers0]

It's on "Time" by Richard Hell ... but I'm not saying that's the only record it's on heh ...

[ClashCityRockers0]

It's also on the "Yonkers Demos"

[ClashCityRockers0]

This is a brill version - I just got it on Hell's "Time" I think - however I prefer Voidoids' version on "Blank Generation." Clearly though Richard rocked w/e band he was in :D

[elToggelito]

The Heartbreakers later used the same music for One track min

[thelenouns]

holy shit, this is ON!!!!

i still the the insanity/sporadic-ness of the Voidoids one a bit better, but this is SUPER SUPER good as well. i had no clue this existed! wow!

[timokkk]

Thank you for posting this.

Good Shit.

[Scabrinastep]

johnny johnny johnny!

[KilledBySchool]

It's so rad to hear Johnny sing "Love comes in spurts!"

[ringringbananarchy]

God this is the best version...Richard Hell singing and Johnny playing. I like the music for this one much better than the Voidoids version.

[PeckerwoodCracker]

@ringringbananarchy

I like the urgency in his voice better in the Voidoids' version, but this is still fucking mint.

[angrysamoan666]

@ringringbananarchy Nah this is music hall bullshit. The otgher is fucking the one mate LOL

[glitchesandglitter]

@ringringbananarchy you should give the neon boy's version a listen. it's the project that tom verlaine from television and richard hell did before television was a band. it's my fav version.

[MmeLEnfer]

@glitchesandglitter It's a different song though - same title and similar chorus, but completely different composition and lyrics. I love all three versions... I love the drums intro to this, but I prefer both the Voidoids version of this song and the other Neon Boys song to this.

[MONSTERMADHOUSE]

I AGREE

[DangerousBastard]

This is cool, thanks!

[666conqueror666]

Haha. I have this track on one of my 1974 Punk/New Wave compilation vinyls.

[actionstarskyandhutc]

Johnny would be dissapointed.

[ifeelallright]

1974? didnt the heartbreakers form in 1975?

[allsfullofluv]

yeah,thanks for putting this on

[cpglynn]

Thank you.

[doctorluv]

Enjoy.

[cpglynn]

Is this off Blank Generation or LAMF?

[doctorluv]

You can find this track on Richard Hell's "Time" album as well as Chinese Rocks, Can't Keep My Eyes On You and Hurt Me.

[godofslumber]

@doctorluv  Hurt me is incredible!

[Unseenthreat38]

@cpglynn Its on Blank Generation

[SEANDI777]

L.A.M.F

D.T.K forever. "I got a.....one track mind."

Meyers, go play with Quine.

[luciano1977]

Great! This was then turned into 'One Track Mind' and recorded as a single and also appeared on the L.A.M.F. album. Cool pictures by the way.

[ringringbananarchy]

The MUSIC tracks were turned into One Track Mind, Richard Hell put out the song with other music on the Voidoids first album, Blank Generation. So this became TWO great songs.

[luciano1977]

Yeah man, i obviously meant just the music.

[505rg]

Thank you for this!!!