This band rules. At least their 1st album does, anyway. http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c805/c80573j8x2o.jpg
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 October 2008 12:42 (seventeen years ago)
Yes, it was a good one. You missed out on the comment about their recent new one, Teenage Head with Marky Ramone, over on Rolling Hard Rock. So I'll give you the short version: It's a good "best of" remake focusing mainly on the debut.
Frantic City and Some Kinda Fun delivered diminishing returns. When they finally got their American break, the label made them change the name to Teenage Heads for one solitary EP. I remember being disappointed with it.
A subsequent live album redelivered some of the original oomph but not all of it. After that, the singer quit and was replaced by a chancer.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the new one.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
Holy crap, Frankie Venom died.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=106962
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 16 October 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)
― Pillbox, Thursday, 16 October 2008 01:59 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.beat-net-records.info/0_images/flamingroovies_teenagehead_cdwik-926_s320.jpg
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 16 October 2008 04:11 (seventeen years ago)
Moderation request. ^^^remove this. Hey heevahava, good job. Now, it has no place on this thread.
― Gorge, Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:12 (seventeen years ago)
^^ ban dis guy
― eman, Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:14 (seventeen years ago)
^^^ him too
― eman, Thursday, 16 October 2008 05:28 (seventeen years ago)
^^ truth bomber
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 16 October 2008 06:50 (seventeen years ago)
^^ ilx newbie
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 16 October 2008 06:51 (seventeen years ago)
Well shit. I post a thread about a band and their singer dies. RIP Frankie Venom.
Now, maybe if I start a thread about Scouting For Girls...
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)
Book coming out (don't blame the title on me--I'm just the messenger):
http://www.amazon.ca/Gods-Hammer-Teenage-Head-Story/dp/1552452840
I interviewed Frankie Venom when the band was going through their Spinal Tap phase in the mid-'80s, and a friend and I ran into him in a bar a few years after that when things seemed rather grim. The writer's a good local film critic.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 03:27 (eleven years ago)
Title kinda works via Zep made Godlike, expansive, awesome music. Whereas teenage head used mere mortal hammers to transcend reality.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:27 (eleven years ago)