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  Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Classic US Punk
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Classic US Punk
You don't get a more punk history than Richard Hell.
And while never perhaps delivering the killer punch always promised Hell's importance to punk and its aftermath should never be understated.
www.punk77.co.uk /groups/richardhell.htm   (118 words)

  
  In Music We Trust - Richard Hell: Time
Heartbreakers and Voidoids front man Richard Hell has left an irreplaceable, unforgettable stamp on the face of punk music.
The Voidoids' "Time" finds Richard Hell taking jangly pop and running it through a fierce rock grinder, as he beefs up the timid pop and gives it a face lift.
It is The Voidoids live in 1983 at the 688 Club in Atlanta, Georgia where Hell gets quirky and crazy on the wild "I Can Only Give You Everything", a solid, tight, punchy rocker that finds Hell's rock slur at the top of its game.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/47p14.html   (418 words)

  
 The Voidoids
The Voidoids was a New York punk band of the late 1970s, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of Television.
The group is best known for Hell's nihilistic and decadent worldview, reflected in songs like, "Who Says It's Good To Be Alive".
Their song "Blank Generation" served as an anthem for the new wave movement in New York.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Voidoids.html   (59 words)

  
 Richard Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Hell (born October 2, 1949) is the stage name of Richard Meyers, an American singer, songwriter and writer, probably best-known as frontman for the early punk band The Voidoids.
Hell was an originator of the punk fashion look, the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids' best known songs were "Blank Generation" (the title track of their original album), "Love Comes in Spurts," "The Kid With the Replaceable Head," and "Time" (title of a 2002 Hell collection, from Matador, of outtakes, unreleased, and live material).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Hell   (886 words)

  
 Matador Records | Richard Hell
For more info on Richard’s publicity juggernaut and news on upcoming readings, etc, including his upcoming March 2002 book tour of the UK and France, be sure to check out his personal website.
Hell, a founding member of the Neon Boys and the Heartbreakers, before forming the Voidoids in 1976, is a crucial voice in American music and literature.
The first Voidoids album, ‘Blank Generation’; (Sire, 1977) has been cited more times than we can count as one of the most influential of its time.
www.matadorrecords.com /richard_hell   (655 words)

  
 Robert Quine at the I-94 Bar
He was the principal guitarist in Richard Hell and the Voidoids, a unique quartet spitting out some of the New Wave's most disturbing music.
As the singer and bass player, Hell's quavering yelp, intense presence and wired stage antics were in sharp contrast to Quine, the epitome of cool in shades and sports coat, a seemingly ever-present cigarette dangling from his mouth.
They were lucrative times for some but not the Voidoids who dissolved in a sea of industry indifference and disinterest on the part of their singer, by then a captive of other distractions.
www.i94bar.com /ints/quine.html   (3115 words)

  
 Punknews.org | Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation (1977)
The other said he wanted to watch it burn (he later changed his name to [Richard] Hell)." The Voidoids came out of the New York scene, and were more roots rock than most of their contemporaries.
Blank Generation is the debut album from Richard Hell & The Voidoids, and I personally think it is bit better than Television's Marquee Moon.
The Voidoids, though generally less technical, were able to unleash more raw energy and edge than Television.
www.punknews.org /printrev/1094   (1045 words)

  
 Satanosphere || Deface the Music: Robert Quine, 1942-2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Robert Quine, the original lead guitarist for Richard Hell and The Voidoids, was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in his apartment Saturday.
The Voidoids' "Blank Generation" introduced Quine's fretwork, which combined artfulness, randomness, knife-sharp distortion and plain old skronk, possibly the best example ever of "fractured" guitar playing.
When Hell disbanded the Voidoids after two albums, Quine was in demand as a session guitarist.
www.satanosphere.com /story/2004/6/7/21159/24077   (642 words)

  
 Obituary: Robert Quine Independent, The (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A founding member of the seminal New York punk group Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Quine also recorded with the British singer- songwriter Lloyd Cole and the power pop vocalist Matthew Sweet.
Issued in September 1977, Richard Hell and the Voidoids' debut album, also entitled Blank Generation, remains one of the defining records of the punk era.
In 1979, the Voidoids split up after touring with Elvis Costello and issuing the single "The Kid with the Replaceable Head".
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040616/ai_n12791615   (939 words)

  
 Richard Hell & the Voidoids - AOL Music
First Voidoids photo session 1976; linked to Hell bio with samples of music, writing, song lyrics, art, and photos from across the years, plus merchandise...
Richard Hell and the Voidoids' best known songs were "Blank Generation" (the title track of their original album), "Love Comes in Spurts," "The Kid With the...
Download, listen and watch Richard Hell & the Voidoids music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/richard-hell-and-the-voidoids/198042/main   (151 words)

  
 Richard Hell, Spurts: The Richard Hell Story
Hell’s next stop was in the Heartbeakers, with refugee New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan, and their 1975 “Chinese Rocks” (which Hell wrote with Dee Dee Ramone) could have been Top 40 if we’d all lived in another world.
The happy-nihilist heart of Spurts may be the 11 cuts from Richard Hell and the Voidoids, that bracing aggregation of jagged chords and found fronk forever anchored by Hell’s vocals and bass, and by twin-genius guitarists Ivan Julian and Robert Quine.
In view of Robert Quine’s suicide last year, the Voidoids as such can never reunite, but Hell’s 2004 effort “She’ll Be Coming (for Dennis Cooper),” with Ivan Julian aboard, shows he can still deliver the goods, albeit now in an Iraqabilly mode.
www.harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3491   (404 words)

  
 Blank Generation (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is by Ulli Lommel who did The Boogeyman, Devonsville Horror, Brainwaves, Tenderness of the Wolves, etc. Lommel himself has a part in the movie, and there's even a cameo by Andy Warhol and some freak with flashing goggles and a violin that is Warhol's assistant.
There's a few live performances by the Voidoids, some wandering the streets and meeting odd people, and a few odd enough characters to make this watchable.
As I said this is no work of cinematic genius but it's definitely watchable and a decent little slice of NYC back in "the day".
us.imdb.com /title/tt0078873   (364 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
That settled (and not as easy as it sounds) Richard Hell & the Voidoids were born, and their biggest contribution to Rock'n'Roll (in the punk sense) Blank Generation was created !
You see as imperfect as Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation comes off as for it's time and place in history...
It's really a Rock'n'Roll record you can not live without, so make a little more room for imperfections in your collection- such is listening gold- so meet my a** down at the Rock'n'Roll club tonight- we'll make some minor imperfections turn to instant memories.
www.epinions.com /content_113571761796   (1273 words)

  
 Rober Quine, R.I.P. | MetaFilter
He was sixty years old and had played with Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet, Lloyd Cole, Materia, Brian Eno and others, he also cut an LP with Jody Harris (Escape), and one with Fred Maher (Basic).
Personally, I'll always remember him from the jagged guitar parts from Richard Hell and Voidoids' "Blank Generation", which were the only guitar parts that I ever bothered to learn and faithfully reproduce note for note in the many times my band covered the song.
The "Blank Generation" was a song written by Richard Hell and the Voidoids that appeared on their album of the same name in 1977.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/33529   (1152 words)

  
 Richard Hell - Spurts: The Richard Hell Story - at Rhino
Their first band, The Neon Boys, underwent its own re-christening, becoming Television, the twin-guitar experimental powerhouse whose legendary CBGB shows helped shape New York punk.
Hell moved on to form several other groundbreaking and influential outfits: The Heartbreakers, The Voidoids, and most recently, Dim Stars.
One of the most literate and musically intelligent auteurs of the genre he defined, Hell sounds as fresh and complex today as he did three decades ago.
www.rhino.com /store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=74723   (658 words)

  
 trakMARX - The Velvets To The Voidoids
From The Velvets To The Voidoids is about that promise, in the brief period when everything seemed possible and the only limit was ambition.” – Clinton Heylin
Their influence is overstated - as I state unequivocally in the new chapter I've added to Velvets to Voidoids.
The sheer 'off-beatness' of the best of this stuff was a powerful antidote to the course of Punk elsewhere Stateside; and was certainly the true antecedent of so much so-called 'post-punk' (awful term).
www.trakmarx.com /2005_03/08_velvet.htm   (1809 words)

  
 RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Richard Hell - Spurts: The Richard Hell Story
‘Blank Generation’;, Hell’s 1977 album with his band the Voidoids, is one of the defining documents of punk, and that album is represented by four stellar tracks here.
The handful of cuts from the Voidoids’ excellent, often-overlooked sophomore album ‘Destiny Street’ fleshes out the main chapter of Hell’s work.
Walking On The Water - (with Richard Hell & The Voidoids)
www.regnyouth.com /?p=2152   (473 words)

  
 Along for the Ride
SCAN the (maga)zine Punk Planet's Web site links to bands, activism, labels, forums, personal and music zines and more things "punk".
We’ll never know for sure how it started because lots of people were messing with the sound that would become known as punk rock - British pub rockers, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, MC5, The New York Dolls and Television to name a few.
The only thing punk rockers, critics and fans do agree on is that the Ramones first album was the true launch.
www.npr.org /programs/theride/jlangford/003.html   (628 words)

  
 Amazon.com: From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World: Books: Clinton Heylin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock by Clinton Heylin
Heylin's loosely chronological study is organized around stories of the rise and often precipitous fall of bands as varied as the Velvet Underground (the godfathers of the punk movement), the Ramones, Blondie, Television, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
This engaging and informative work explores the origins of the American punk and art rock scene, covering artists like Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell & The Voidoids and The Ramones, all of whom contributed to the innovations or the were the originators of many stylistic and musical traits evident in later bands.
amazon.com /Velvets-Voidoids-Pre-Punk-History-Post-Punk/dp/0140179704   (1900 words)

  
 The Ramones
The next two albums, Leave Home and Rocket To Russia, were chock full of great melodies with buzzsaw accompaniment, and the latter spawned the charting single, "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker." Drummer Tommy left in 1978 to produce.
Marc Bell, veteran of the hard rock band Dust and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, was christened Marky Ramone and fit in perfectly.
Before the Ramones he was in Dust, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and Wayne County's band, and after the Ramones he will still be drumming.
www.penduluminc.com /MM/articles/ramones.html   (2884 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Richard Hell & the Voidoids
The full-length, no-overlap Dim Stars is clearly a vehicle for the long-inactive Hell, and he takes the wheel with the aplomb of a NASCAR veteran, slipping lithely into the cut-up lyrical style he worked in the '70s with the Voidoids (whose Robert Quine guests on five tracks).
Even though long stretches of the album degenerate into skronky improvisation, "All My Witches Come True" and "The Night Is Coming On" jerk and skitter with the strung-out energy of Hell's heyday.
Partly due to the fact that Hell was never a prolific songwriter, there are renditions of "Blank Generation" by Television and the Voidoids, and two "Love Comes in Spurts," one by the Neon Boys the other by the Voidoids.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=richard_hell_and_the_voidoids   (1125 words)

  
 Plan 9 - Richard Hell : Spurts: The Richard Hell Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
BLANK GENERATION, Hell's 1977 album with his band the Voidoids, is one of the defining documents of punk, and that album is represented by four stellar tracks here.
SPURTS surveys Hell's trajectory as an artist, from his pre-Voidoids bands the Neon Boys (an early version of guitar genius Tom Verlaine's Television) and the Heartbreakers (with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan from the New York Dolls), to his post-Voidoids project Dim Stars (featuring Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore).
Uncut (p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "As an instant of alternative history, with Verlaine and Richard Lloyd's sharp, glassy riffs serving Hell's astonishing tale of an identity crisis in the womb, the band clearly his, it's fascinating."
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=08122747232   (499 words)

  
 The Marky Ramone Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
After recording two hard rock albums with the band Dust (along with guitarist Richie Wise - who would soon go on to produce the first two Kiss albums) when he was 16, Marky got into the punk scene in the early 70's.
After the band called it quits (due to the fact we were still in high school,) I recorded an album with Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones' first producer) on Columbia records, than was asked to audition for the New York Dolls.
From there, joined Jayne County's band, than was asked to join Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and recorded the punk anthem and album The Blank Generation.
heyho53.tripod.com   (1068 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Richard Hell Tells Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Within a year, however, frustrated with Verlaine's creative leadership, Hell set out on his own, joining up with ex-New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan to form the Heartbreakers.
But with the attention on Thunders, bassist Hell left in months, eventually forming Richard Hell and the Voidoids with the late Robert Quine on guitar.
The band, who went on to tour with the Clash, had fallen quiet by the late Seventies, and in spite of 1982's solid Destiny Street release, the Voidoids flamed out.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/7405523/richard_hell_tells_story   (433 words)

  
 Slovenly Recordings : Bands : The Subsonics
Slovenly Recordings is super-proud to have on the label this Atlanta garage trio, long among our very favorite bands.
Citing influences such as the Voidoids, Bo Diddley, Ike and Tina Turner, Velvet Underground, and Phil Spector, and with ten years and five albums now under their belt, the SUBSONICS is one of the most important rock and roll bands of the last decade.
Citing influences such as the Voidoids, Bo Diddley, Wilson Pickett, Ike & Tina, Little Richard, Phil Spector, and the Velvet Underground, the SUBSONICS deliver yet another record that shines both musically and lyrically.
www.702records.com /subsonics   (241 words)

  
 Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Song Listings
Blank Generation - Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Song Listings
Richard Hell was one of the first men on the scene when punk rock first began to emerge in New York City as an early member of both Television and the Heartbreakers (he left both groups before they could record), but his own version of punk wasn't much like anyone else's, and while Hell's debut...
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Song Listings
www.mp3.com /albums/7470/summary.html   (435 words)

  
 Richard Hell and the Voidoids >> Aversion.com
Richard Hell pioneered early New York punk, with a sound featuring raw, raunchy guitars and bass playing fairly simply arranged songs scorning the polish of mainstream rock, indulging in its rough sound.
While not emphasizing speed or aggression, the Voidoids' sound nonetheless helped to define the unhinged characteristics essential to punk rock.
Hell, whom Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren attempted to talk into immigrating to the U.K. to front a band of McLaren's creation, also pioneered the look of British punks, with short-cropped hair and ripped clothing.
www.aversion.com /bands/voidoids   (136 words)

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