You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory [Original recording remastered]

Johnny Thunders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sbme Castle Us
• ASIN: B00006HCV6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Since some of the "reviews" of this have been misleading..., September 23, 2002

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Thomas Brian Burns (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Audio CD)

just be aware it's NOT a JT career retrospective.

Disc 1 is yet another remix of "LAMF".

Disc 3 is "DTK- Live at the Speakeasy"; I know, at one point, you could get BOTH these titles on one CD

Disc 2 is the Lyceum concert with some bonus tracks.

So, it's a good basic "Heartbreakers" collection, but the Dolls and solo stuff isn't really represented.

Great stuff, of course... but not what"Entertainment Weekly", for one, thought it was.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dive in, February 14, 2005

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Christopher Bushman (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Audio CD)

There are lots of Johnny Thunders / Heartbreakers live releases and this is a pretty good place to dive in if you are interested. Lots of very rocking good stuff here, the sound is great throughout and the performances are energetic.

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the purchase., July 21, 2006

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captainpotato (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Audio CD)

As far as a collection of discs go, for any budding Johnny Thunders fan, this is a great start. Beginning with the Heartbreakers' "LAMF Revisited", it may have been rehashed many times, but this mix is decent. As for the other disc go, two differing live show discs present two different sides to what Johnny Thunders was. The first, a more upbeat affair, brings the wilder, drug-driven side of Thunders to the fore, whereas the latter, a much more introspective look, still brings a tear to my eye with his cover of the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By", and perhaps captures Johnny's spirit more than anything else he recorded - even more than "You Can't Put Your Arm Around A Memory".