Teenage Depression [IMPORT]

Eddie & The Hot Rods

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Original Release Date: December 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B000006NR3
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #574,062 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Over the course of the long, hot summer of 1976, it seemed that Eddie & the Hot Rods were embarking on a one-way trip to superstardom. Considered to be a younger and more exuberant version of gritty, R&B pub-rockers Dr. Feelgood, they were smashing attendance records during a prolonged residency at London's Marquee Club. Yet, to echo their debut single, there was already a good deal of "Writing on the Wall" for the Rods, as their Marquee support band, the Sex Pistols, were about to consign them to the cultural dumper. This debut collection, however, catches the quartet on the crest of an upwardly mobile wave where everything still seemed possible, and their edgy, blazing energy is both tangible and infectious. From "Get Across to You" to "On the Run," Teenage Depression remains a hot-and-sweaty, rough-and-ready pub-rock classic. --Ian Fortnam

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard To Categorize, May 23, 2001

By	Clark Paull "(Sleepin' with the TV on)" (Murder City) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Perhaps unfairly lumped in with the punks due to the speed at which they played, Eddie & The Hot Rods were basically a revved up pub rock/R&B outfit that bridged the gap between both genres. This is a slightly different version of the album that was released on vinyl stateside and consequently it loses one star for failing to include their take-no-prisoners version of Bob Seger's "Get Out Of Denver."

4.0 out of 5 stars At Last!, August 21, 1999

By	David V. Watts ([e-mail]) (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

Well at last - at least one of the early Rods albums have finally made it to CD. I think perhaps you had to have been there to fully enjoy this album. It isn't going to win any new converts to the Hot Rods. But then again, don't let my view color your perceptions too much.

Basically the Rods were a pub band who made it "big." This album was their first - though not necessarily their best. The title track actually charted. Other than that - well there isn't anything bad about this one - just nothing outstanding. If it were rleased as a new Cd today it would no-doubt bomb badly. But it's a little bit of England - a drop of late 60's R & B living through the 70's. There's a very good reason that a number by the Who is on this one.

Personally, I can't imagine NOT owning this one.