Life on the Line [Import]

Eddie & The Hot Rods | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Captain Oi!
• ASIN: B00004SDMJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,375 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #64 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave

Track Listings

1. Do Anything You Wanna Do

2. Quit This Town

3. Telephone Girl

4. What's Really Going On

5. Ignore Them (Still Life)

6. Life on the Line

7. (And) Don't Believe Your Eyes

8. We Sing...The Cross

9. Beginning of the End

10. I Might Be Lying [*]

11. Ignore Them (Always Crashing the Same Bar)

12. Schoolgirl Love [*]

13. Till the Night Is Gone (Let's Rock) [*]

14. Flipside Rock [*]

15. Do Anything You Wanna Do [Live][*]

16. What's Really Going On [Live][*]

17. Why Can't It Be? [Live][*]

18. Distortion May Be Expected [*]

Editorial Reviews

Repressing. First time on CD for this brilliant album that reached #27 in the UK when first released in 1977. The hit singles "I Might Be Lying", "Quit This Town" and the legendary "Do Anything You Wanna Do" are featured as are eight bonus tracks including the Rods collaboration with former MC5 mainman Rob Tyner. Powerful Rock that influenced the leaders of the Punk scene - "Do Anything You Wanna Do" has got to be one of the greatest Punk tracks of all time. Captain Oi.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second album crowns career of hard-rocking late-70s pub band, June 15, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life on the Line (Audio CD)

As British pub-rock fed into punk-rock, bands like Eddie & The Hot Rods were caught deliciously in the middle. They were more accomplished instrumentally (and compositionally) than the punks, but they caught the fire of the latter's energy and teenage abandon. This LP represents the 'Rods second and best effort, adding a bit more of a melodic edge through the addition of guitarist Graeme Douglas. Many bright moments to be heard, including the superb UK chart hit, "Do Anything You Wanna Do." This import reissue is listed elsewhere as containing nine bonus tracks.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot Rods Rock!, August 9, 2002

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Joey DiDonna (Chicago Il USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life on the Line (Audio CD)

Not a dull moment on Eddie and the Hot Rods second LP. A masterful job from each member of the band from start to finish as they race thru the title track and other songs like "Telephone Girl" and "Ignore Them". If you like high energy rock, then you will love "Life On The Line".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Captain Oi! should have listened to the album first..., August 13, 2007

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Joseph Babic - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life on the Line (Audio CD)

I love love love this album--a perfect blend of raw rock'n'roll unafraid of great catchy hooks so conspicuously absent with so much so-called "pub rock". My gripe here has to do with not the album itself but a few things I noticed upon listening to it. #1-- Near the end of "Quit This Town" is an audible skip(!), I noticed it when I ripped ths disc onto my desktop, I could hear a sound similar to a record player skipping. Inexcusable, really ruins the song for me. #2--"Flipside Rock" is clearly recorded straight from a copy of the 7" single, noise and all--and a pretty crummy copy too. Awful. You can tell that the label was a little careless in putting this package together here, judging from the typos in the liner notes as well. I'm getting the Japanese re-release on Universal, I expect that'll be a little more of a worthy release.