Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Kid With The Replac.....

[bcom11]

my god. imagine Television continuing on with him on lead vocals and (Tom and Richard Lloyd still on guitars though).

[RossM3838]

I agree that the Voidoids were never really a punk band. Just too different and unusual and original.

[royalnaz1]

the first band in the smithereens movie plays a cool song at the nightclub.

who sings that song?

[athousandstories]

anyone else feel like this song is missing a count-in between 0:03 & 0:05? the only thing that would make this song even awesomer.

[LORDGOAT1976]

Just watched The Smithereens , great Movie, did Richard do any other Movie's?

[Troublemaker1991]

Shut up talking about the origins of punk and which country was better at it. Why should one care? Music is music, and it is a universal feeling. All the other details are unimportant.

[chashamrick]

@Troublemaker1991 music has nothing to really do with punk

[Troublemaker1991]

@chashamrick I'm supposing you're talking about the ideas, fashion and attitude that comes with punk, with that comes feeling, music is expression of feeling therefore music has a lot to do with it.

[chashamrick]

@Troublemaker1991 yeah if you write the music

[wisesatyr72]

thats a cool album cover..

[idontwantohurtnobody]

F THE CHUMPS FROM ENGLAND , WHY DO YOU THINK WE LEFT THE SHITHOLE.....

[TheTrelaney]

Who cares if it's punk or not. Don't listen to it if you don't like it.

[960random]

Who hears punk? Not me. Punk is not any one distiguishable sound or style as it is a rebellious attitude that this band lacks.

[juliabadoolia]

to all the people here commenting on who or where or what started punk just need to shut up. WHO GIVES A FUCK WHO STARTED IT, IT'S JUST MUSIC. it really doesn't matter.

[RossM3838]

@juliabadoolia great rock and roll is great rock and roll. Nothing else really matters.

[InvaderOfYourHeart]

this sounds different the version on "Spurts: The Richard Hell Story"

[RossM3838]

@InvaderOfYourHeart They did several takes on the song. It was originally the b side of a single in 1977. They rerecorded it for the album Destiny Street and then again for Destiny Street repaired. There were probably several other takes, mixes and demos and live recordings between them as well.

[SonyVor]

The best unknown lead guitarist ever in history. So sad that he is gone.

[DrRockdapuss]

cant find this torrent anywhere

[AristYdes]

this was recorded in 1982 but it sounds like he didnt notice it wasnt 1977 anymore. booo

[ringringbananarchy]

@AristYdes Well considering the fact it was written in late 1977 and was performed in concert by the Voidoids as early as 1978...(you can find a live version recorded at CBGBs in 1978 on Richard Hell's 'Time')

[RossM3838]

@ringringbananarchy it was originally a b side of a single from 1978 and then redone to fill up the album. Richard Hell has never had the greatest work ethic in rock and roll. But maybe that's a good thing as he is alive and well while many of his contemporaries are not. regardless its a great song I think.

[INSANEIOMMI8]

every teenager should listen to this stuff. this is the real deal!

[a99999z]

I listened to this constantly when I was 17 (1977). Then I was able to see him open for David Johannson (solo), 1978 at the Atlantic Club in Washington, DC. Later in the eighties I got to seem him play the same club. Last I saw him he was reading excerpts from his book in the mid-nineties, I got his autograph, yeah! This album is classic.

[JacobDeadman]

ive never seen this side of punk much. i had been looking at england so much i fogot about the american scene

[darthsarth]

people need to quite bitching about where ounk rock originated from. It doesnt matter!! it came, it left its influence and it left the main scene. IT ISNT DEAD. Punk rock lives on in the music of underground bands, thats where its all at.

[wegotito]

punk is evrywhere not just uk n us but evrywhere

[aluigilegustaelpunk]

buen punk...del bueno.

[KateIsMySlaveName]

Do you think you could possibly send this to me? I would really appreciate it. I can't find this version anywhere.

[MmeLEnfer]

I got it, you can have the album if you like

[RippingFadedSmiles]

@KateIsMySlaveName

Ok, i can do it

:)

[Baillie18]

whatever ... i saw the band in glasgow in the 80's, loved them more than any other band after 30yrs TOP BAND but clash , sp etc deserve respect too

[weenerwallet]

punk is all from the U.S. the UK took it's credit but in reality bands from our blank generation influenced a bunch of english bums...that's the only reason we have the sex piistols, the clash..and it goes on.

[aliofly]

yea the clash.....really a bunch of English bums weren't they

douche

[RippingFadedSmiles]

Punk rised in different countries, not just the UK and the US.

But if you want to specify the origin of punk music, travel your mind back to Austria with the onr real originator of punk rock....

J.S. Bach

[bradgenetta]

@RippingFadedSmiles Don't be stupid now, American rock music and American punk music ultimately come from slave music and the blues and jazz, not Bach.

[RippingFadedSmiles]

Beethoveen, and Bach.

They were considered the originators of the punk ideology in music, cause back in then what musicians did it was to please the ruler and the burgess class only. But this new period came, that now composerscreated music to express their emotions and feelings independently, disregarding what the high class demanded.

But they grew out real famous.

Still, i agree, most of nowadays music is derived from Blues, R&B, and so.

[DRuCiFer8000]

@RippingFadedSmiles

Bach is responsible for metal not punk. Neo-Classical is an actual genre of metal based on classical principles. Which is widely responsible for common metal.

[RippingFadedSmiles]

But in the Means of the meaning.

The 'why' of the action and the 'action' itself

If you're talking about complexity in music, it's not only in metal, also Avant Garde, many 60's experimental, psychedl. bands could play under this 'principles' what so ever.

What about Punk?

Well you know it's not complex 'Most' of it. But the influence it forwardly came by the means of making music, your own music, not to please them but to express your inside out.

[saladshootavvv]

@DRuCiFer8000 Bach is Baroque, not classical. And HOW is Bach responsible for metal?!?! Metal is a popular music derived from rock, which is derived from Blues, which was derived from Negro spirituals. Where's the connection? I still have yet to have anyone explain to me the "principles" that Neo-Classical metal is based on. Diminished chords? Deceptive Cadences and circle of 5hs? It's just masturbatory pap that superficially resembles functional harmony and ISN'T actually classical music. CONT.

[saladshootavvv]

@DRuCiFer8000 Metal fans just LOVE to say pretentious things like "metal is as complicated and sophisticated as Classical music, and it IS classical music." No. It's not. Why do you feel you have to justify your music this way? It makes you guys sound like retards. The best part is that I have yet to meet a metal head that ACTUALLY knows classical music (and not just top 40 Classical). I know they exist, like John Zorn, but he wouldn't say stupid shit like "metal came from Bach".

[DRuCiFer8000]

@saladshootavvv

Well you certainly seem full of yourself. I never said it IS classical music & I'm not trying to "justify my music". I've been listening to "punk" for at least 15 years & i dont choose a genre to be a fan of, if its good i like it. For the most part "metal" has turned into a bunch of bullshit & i have more disdain for most metal bands than most ppl. All i was saying is bach & any other "classical" music is not prevalent in any "punk" music i have heard.

[DRuCiFer8000]

@saladshootavvv

For the most part Bach pretty much was the Baroque period it started with him & practically disappeared shortly after his death. "Classical" music is a generalized term used to cover hundreds of years worth of music with multiple "periods" of "genres" or "styles". So if you want to talk semantics on the specifics of that you are wasting time. Now, neo-classical music is called neo-classical music because it used paganini inspired guitar playing with "classical" inspired (cont)

[DRuCiFer8000]

@saladshootavvv

chord changes so the guitar player could do a bunch of virtuoso guitar stuff. Commonly referred to as "shredding". Several bands from the "neo-classical genre" covered "classical" peices or worked them into parts of songs. So my question to you is: do you actually know what you are talking about? or are you just some dumbass high school kid with a personal issue with "metal" music &/or "metalheads"?

[Alphabex8]

@DRuCiFer8000 Oh Snap!! you go girl.

[bboma777]

@bradgenetta - too true& does anyone else see the connection between Rap & Hoedown?

[bboma777]

@RippingFadedSmiles The 1st punk band were The Stooges, 1967 . . . & before anyone mentions them, MC5 were not a Punk band.

[Alphabex8]

@bboma777 fine. don't call MC5 punk but, also, don't ignore the fact that they influenced what punk would be. in fact, The Stooges admit how strong their influence was on them.

[weenerwallet]

@RippingFadedSmiles you're right.punk does appear in different countries at different times. I'm just stateing a fact. the U.S. punk bands hav had head influence of this certain punk wave. I'm not talking about blues Rock..I mean the industrial era of underground punk music..which never airwaved but instead spead thru amazing night shows such as the Ramones, the cramps, Richard hell, the Voids andthe heartbreakers, the misfits, black flag,and it goes on..

[RippingFadedSmiles]

Well, the stooges, ramones and such had this PUNK etiquette right on, but this same acts were somewhere else, like i mean. The who, The Renegades (UK), also, Screaming Lord Sutch and so, even if they are not labeled as punk or protopunk, they were like the sound of an isle, also great acts, you know.

Not only US, Anywhere.

[weenerwallet]

@RippingFadedSmiles ya. the UK has got great stuff too. I never denied that :)

[FUBUXGEAR]

@RippingFadedSmiles never going to deny the uk def brought punk back into america after it kinda faded in the mid-late 70s, but at the same time the us boosted plenty of uk bands, like the clash and the pistols, its a musical symbiosis, and always has been between the us and uk, we come up with shit, forget about it pretty quick, the uk reworks it, pumps it back, and we remember it and run with it again and vice versa.

[MichealZero1]

@FUBUXGEAR what are you talking about your completely ignorant if you think punk ever faded at all you totally forget about hardcore punk if you say punk wasnt much in the U.S hardcore inspired alot band in the u.k and alot of bands changed their style in the u.k to be hardcore

[RippingFadedSmiles]

@MichealZero1 Well actually, if you mean the 80s Hardcore, US and UK differ a lot, the U.S hardcore punk came in more inspired by sloppier, rawer and faster playing, giving it that trademark corrosion; on the other hand, the uk hardcore surged out more from the rising-along heavy metal influence, from bands like motorhead, rather from US bands, plus it was a bit more politically edged.

-just to mention :)

[kidcalabria]

@MichealZero1 And for Hardcore please read "crap". They all look the same, they all sound the same, they all say the same things, which it's exactly the opposite of what Punk Rock in 1977 (Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash, The Damned, Richard Hell, Dead Boys, Patti Smith, The Stranglers, etc..) was about, i.e: great Rock'n'Roll, after years of Soft Rock (James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King) Prog Rock (EL&P, Genesis, Yes... bbbrrr..) & crappy Glam Rock (Elton John, Sweet, etc..)

[bboma777]

@weenerwallet The UK did with the Blues what the USA didn't: gave it the respect & airing it was due. Once it's social & artistic value was shown, the USA claimed it back . . . same with Hendrix. When it comes to Punk & white man Blues, the UK did them with more diversity & better. You'll also find a disproportional number of the worlds greatest guitarists from there too.

[weenerwallet]

@bboma777 neither country had any respectable airings for bluesrock or punk music. Both U.S and U.K were highly censoring and not that accepting of them.But those were the airwaves, whut really helped these band survive were the Record sales, ticket sales and the live performances which were really whut spread the muse and inspiration to other already ledgend bands such as the smiths, clash, and more..but believe you me that credit was given to our punk ledgens,just not in mainstream fashion.yuk

[FUBUXGEAR]

@bboma777 i think youll find that punk and blues show that a great guitarist dont mean shit if he aint backing some soul

[eklektro68]

@weenerwallet

Yup, Americans invented punk. But it took the Brits to spread it around the world.

[FUBUXGEAR]

@eklektro68 same for rock and roll

[oOJimmySueOo]

@weenerwallet I don't agree with this. Punk came from ska and reggae because there were heavy populations of Caribbean people around London, and the skin heads took some of their musical ideas, sped them up and made punk

[whitetrashoutlaw]

@oOJimmySueOo

What?

Skinheads didn't get into punk until 77 or 78.

[mohawk1020]

@oOJimmySueOo Punk started in Detroit with The Stooges and MC5

[TheDublJ]

@mohawk1020 finally someone who knows something about music. 

[FUBUXGEAR]

@oOJimmySueOo i dont even think the skinheads were around when punk started, punk started in america, iggy pop got called a punk in an interview and that was used to describe the music formulating around parts of ny and detroit, ny was the nexus, and the history of that style of songwriting goes back a long way, with roots in garage rock bands of the 50s and blues writers of the 30s, and the "fuck it" attitude of american musicians in the 60s, particularly jim morrison, iggy, and lou reed

[lolttyl143]

@weenerwallet yeah and? are you saying the clash are copycats? gtfo

[paulmk88]

@lolttyl143 I'm a copycat and this is my band "Copycats - criminal choice"

[FattyArbuckle1981]

Kinda reminds me of the clash, but more reckless. I like it.

[sneakercats]

Anyone who plays the guitar like he does is bound to have groupies.

[BooBooandDee]

And no one seems to notice the girl standing in the background on the album cover is Patty Smith of Scandal...

[paulbuss]

Patty Smyth? or Smith? see one is Awesome(Patti Smith) the other is mediocre(Patty Smythe)

[MmeLEnfer]

True, but Patty Smyth from Scandal was married to Richard Hell in the early 1980s

[cduffynyc]

Awesome - thanks for the post, and yes, new remastered CD is out now - cool.

[Mantanhattan]

Wow - would you listen to that GUITAR?

Guess who the true artist in this band was... come one ...guess.

Hint: the one on lead guitar>>>Robert Quine.

Poets are poets but Quine was absolutely amazing.

[radioamor]

Yeah, Quine seemed to upstage everyone he collaborated with...Lou Reed included.

[steurun]

richard is the king of punk ' n' roll

[beAloneonTheStreet]

fucking good as always

[clashica]

jebeno

[stainlesstig]

Reminds me of when I was a little punk bastard.....Thanks for posting this.........My dad was into this shit........I love Richard Hell

[RazzEMP]

Fuck, I love it.

[Warsource]

He really rocks, I feel pity that he isn't quite known in my country.

[iwasborninomaha]

Look out!

[luvumo2day]

bonzo76rockon!!!!!!!!! sire

[Barnface1]

aaaahh.. The kids don't Get it.. I will be trying to play this on my wooden geetar until I'm shit enuff to impress them with songs they don't understand yet. Thanks to you!

[MarqueeMoon95]

Hey, I'm fourteen and I love Richard Hell, Television etc. Not all kids don't get it...the ones who do are just rare.

[Barnface1]

Nice.. You've just given me back my faith in the human race!! To be honest I'm glad you switched on kids are rare. If everyone liked this stuff it'd be shit. (I used to pogo to Mr.R.Hell when I was pisshed.. empty floor except me and two other part-time punks. How we laughed.. ahhh good times.

[MarqueeMoon95]

Thanks! My best friend and I both love old music, thanks to both having parents who work in music. Part of me hates nobody my age knowing my music, but the elitist part of me likes being considered the weird alternative person. It's depressing that all the bands I like are gone now, though.

[Barnface1]

You know what to do then! Grab a guitar and some mates and play it yourself.. Yeah.. ROCK 'N' ROLL!! Imagine the fun you could have.

[ClashCityRockers0]

Agree 100%. In the same situation! ;)

[RippingFadedSmiles]

@MarqueeMoon95

Quite true, good music Rock n rolling around this dead generation, it is just rare...

But still i share your nostalgia:(

[AdlejandroP]

@RippingFadedSmiles This aint a dead generation...

[darthsarth]

@MarqueeMoon95 likewise, I am into old school rock. I cant stand most (if not all) the shit these days, too mechanical, but I get what you're saying about the elitist part, I'm the same way. But if more people would listen to this kinda music I wouldnt mind it in the least bit. Then there wouldnt be any fucking Ravers!!!!!!

[Ominous09]

@MarqueeMoon95 I know the feeling brother i know the feeling all to well

[viewtifulJAR]

@MarqueeMoon95 wow thats so true i only found one person who listen to this music....some people have no tase in music

[MarqueeMoon95]

@viewtifulJAR Oh well, at least we both have one person we can agree on music with!

[viewtifulJAR]

@MarqueeMoon95 yeah!

[vladvash]

wtf this is sick nasty

[Dusevic]

sounds like joey ramone

[jhonwanegasey]

it is richard hell

[ChloePuffz]

Yeah....Joey has a deeper voice...

[holycrappitsjo]

Hell.

Awesome.

=]

[ClashCityRockers0]

Always! ;)

[ClashCityRockers0]

Hey this song rocks too- I think my parents are sick of me singing along with Richard every day and playing bass hehe ... Aanother 5 from Mrs. Hell

[RippingFadedSmiles]

Haha.

The same thing i do. haha

Cheers Ari =)

[ClashCityRockers0]

Wow how long ago was my comment?

Btw Richard's putting out a remastered version of this song now, with new vocals. Check it out!