Blank generation
 

I have been listening to this for a week now.


Holy fuck why did no one tell me it was so GODDAMN BORING?

I mean fuck, has there ever been a bigger disconnect between what a band looks like on the cover and the music found inside? shit.

I ha dno idea it was fucking 50's doo wop rock n roll bullshit, with dipshit Dick Hell warbling nonsense. Jesus what a FUCKING BORE.

I want my money back.

luckily I also purchased The HUSKER DU E.P. - Metal Circus

which is fucking amazing and awesome and a million times better than this fucking sha na na fuck and his voidoids.

people, I am warning you for no one warned me. stay away from this shithole of a borefest.

Sounds pretty interesting! I'm gonna purchase this!

A lot of people will call you a philistine now and I do, too.

gotta disagree, that's a great rocknroll record

"Oh, Rob!"

"Now, Laura, take it easy, honey."

"But, Rob. Oh, Rob, it's a great record. It's one of the finest of the new-wave period, edgy and yet melodic, tuneful and literate. Why, Rob, I'm surprised, frankly."

that dipshit Dick Hell warbling nonsense is one of biggest key figures of punk and you are asking people to stay away from him?

they should talk about this record at school.

it's a good record. love comes in spurts is a great song.

I think it is a fucking great record. Messy but still catchy.

i agree, that record is as boring as hell (see what i did there)

I half-agree. It's a really uneven record, parts are sheer brilliance, but a good half of the record is some of the most forgettable music to come out of the CBGB's crowd.

i love that album. robert quin had such an amazing style. kind of like ribot but with the power of skronk.
amazing songs whether they be pure punk, or perfect pop.
i could live with you in another world








but not this one

I think it's brilliant.

BORING BORING. I do not hear any "new wave" in it, nor any "punk" in it whatsoever. I hear a fucking sloppy ass garage rock wanna be band. BORING!

Get the fuck out of here with richard hell seminal punk figure NONSENSE

The album fucking sucks. half of it is pure boring 50's rock wanna be bullshit, BORING as all sweet fuck. There are 4 decent songs and 2 great songs. that ratio means SUCK_ASS ALBUM

album full of fucking filler.

anyone want to buy it off of me? 180 gram re-issue, played only 5 times.

I fucking HATE IT so much. what a fucking waste of my goddamn money and virgin vinyl.


for real, PM me and I will send it to you for $10 + s/h

Oh, come on. Keep it. Seriously. Do not give this shit away or sell it. Do not give away your vinyl.

Do you have the clear red vinyl edition? Like I do?

This is a good record, Rob. Keep it. Even if you hate it now. Later you might not. Then you'll have to buy it all over again.

On the other hand, I think Metal Circus is boring. Much more boring than Blank Generation.

I think "Love Comes in Spurts" is an all time classic, and the title track is certainly an essential punk rock statement. Some of the rest is a tad dull. Punk rock was often a singles music, and some groups probably shouldn't have done full albums.

The album I think you should buy next time, Rob, is Cyborgs Revisited by Simply Saucer. It's on vinyl on the Get Back label.

No one seems to want to buy it from me. I will hold onto it.
I bought ti because the title track is pretty good, but damn, nothing else on it lives up to that. sad

I fucking LOVE Metal Circus!

and the only reason Ricghard Hell is considered a "seminal" punk is because everyone thought he was so cute and wanted to dress like him. fuck him, and fuck his boring ass record.

Answer the man's question!

No no. I have the solid black, 180 gram re-issue

it is nearly worse than a U2 album! ha ha, just kidding. it is much much worse

Mine is like cherry red vinyl.

I would have boughten it from you if it was the red vinyl.

jsdfihsdfoh

metal circus is so much better than blank generation. while the later is a good record, metal circus is fucking amazing.

I just listened to it again. fuck. it gets worse and worse.

metal circus is my second favorite husker recording behind, well you know.

Metal Circus is great. Anyone like Land Speed Record? I enjoy listening to that from time to time. I can't stand Richard Hell more than once every two years .

I don't like Metal Circus as much as everyone else does. It has a fuckload of great energy, but most of the lyrics are embarrasingly awful and bring the album down slightly for me, especially Grant's songs.

Hey little girl, wanna go for a ride?
There's room in my wagon, it's parked right outside
We can cruise down Robert Street all night long
But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead

Diane, Diane, Diane
Diane, Diane, Diane

I hear there's a party at Lake Cove
It'd be so much easier if I drove
We could check it out, we could go and see
Come on, take a ride with me

Diane, Diane, Diane
Diane, Diane, Diane

Lay down together for a while
I'll put all your clothes in a nice, neat little pile
You're the cutest girl I've ever seen in my life
But it's over now and with my knife

Diane, Diane, Diane
Diane, Diane, Diane
Diane, Diane, Diane
Diane, Diane, Diane

It's a good transitional EP, but Zen Arcade is such a monstorous improvement. They still sounded pretty young and a bit uncertain on this.

blank generationm is an amazing song, but i can't say i've listened to that album in the past 5 years more than once.

still, i have mad respect for robert quine and i find richard hell fascinating, his whole nihilistic philosophy (so to speak) is something i don't agree at all but definitely interesting.

hüsker dü are one of those bands that sound fucking amazing on the first 10 listens and then become incredibly stale. i like metal circus but i haven't listened to it in almost five years also.

i constantly re-read hell's interview with lester in "psychotic reactions...", he says some perplexing, but interesting, statements in that article. and quine is an amazing guitarist indeed. but fuck, who cares about blank generation, hell was in televison and they made marquee moon, so give the guy some fuckin respect.

fuck it man, your signature, did haino play with sunn o)))?

haino and oren in the same room, unstoppable!

I haven't got Blank Generation, I've been trying to buy it for about a year or two. From what I've heard so far (onthe Richard Hell best of) it's an alright album. Some amazing stuff and some average stuff.

Of course you know he had departed Television before a note of Marquee Moon was recorded, right? Not that what he did with them probably wasn't great, there's just little document to show it.

There are videos on Youtube of Tom Verlaine trying to teach Richard Hell his bass parts for Television songs, but Richard isn't very good.

I almost always skip the 2 Grant songs when I listen to Metal Circus. ( CD rule )

Somehow I've managed never buying or listening to this record, to my knowledge. One of those eternal ''I will at one point, I doubt it, I can't be bothered with it''.

It's pretty seminal for me... R. Hell + The Voidoids was the first "Punk" band that I ever saw.

But then again I'm too old to know any better.:rolleyes:

Oh, fuck. There's that word again.

who said this was a masterpiece anyway? richard hell himself admits it was recorded when he was starting to lose it.
remember that a couple of years ago recording wasn't as easy as it is today.
the significance of richard hell is beyond this record, anyway. hell is a mark of punk culture and who says the contrary dont know much about punk.

just look at the picture on the back cover of that record and you will see the outfits that malcom maclaren stole for sex pistols, listen to blank generation and to the pistols's pretty vacant and see where it comes from.

Besides the (at least quasi-) anthemic connotations of the scene-song "Blank Generation" (a take on "My Generation" to some degree, no doubt), perhaps another key reason why he's highly associated with the Bowery and No Wave Punk scene is that Hell co-starred in the slice-of-(street)life indie feature Smithereens in 1982. He sort of plays himself, and the movie uses some of his songs; it's pretty good, was filmed on location in early-'80s Manhattan, and is generally well-reviewed.