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Post by jettford on May 19, 2008 10:52:17 GMT -5
I sure don't mean to be rude, i'm just not in the mood for a debate. If you don't see what I mean by Cherie Currie (and The Runaways) being ahead of her time, there are really no words that I can come up with to explain that to you; What I mean is, it's so apparent to me that anyway I'd word it would be condescending, and I don't want to come accross as so.
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Post by heaventonight on May 19, 2008 10:56:05 GMT -5
As a group I agree they were ahead of their time. Cherie dressing like a Lolita, I don't see that as ground breaking or ahead of her time.
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Post by Hawkeye on May 19, 2008 22:45:30 GMT -5
So I should get mine any day then. Hey Wasted, pls check the liners and get back to me via PM K?
Oh: No more snarky stuff or I'm deleting the topic and reposting it fresh.
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Post by wasted on May 20, 2008 5:54:04 GMT -5
I've got both new CD's now. The And Now... reissue is laid out similar to the Japanese Singles Collection with a 14 page liner note booklet, [new] picture disc and photo liner tray. I'm still in the process of going over everything and haven't has a chance to listen to it yet. The liner notes are very extensive with insights from insider Toby Mamis and Mara Fox.
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Post by gusdanger on May 20, 2008 9:28:40 GMT -5
As a group I agree they were ahead of their time. Cherie dressing like a Lolita, I don't see that as ground breaking or ahead of her time. I thought Cherie's Cherry Bomb stage apparel was apropos!
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Post by jettford on May 20, 2008 13:40:49 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that my copy (not the new re-release) of "...And Now", which I bought about 12 years ago in Canada, had this odd glitch at the end of "Takeover". I'm pretty sure the song just cut off at the end, instead of fading out. I wonder if the problem is fixed on this new release-- I can't check my old copy (to be sure that "Takeover" is the song that cut out) because God knows where it is... The liner notes on the re-issue sound extensive. I'm looking forward to seeing them.
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Post by wasted on May 20, 2008 17:31:53 GMT -5
Sorry, I told you I only read them thru once. They do say Danna.
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Post by joejett on May 20, 2008 18:39:15 GMT -5
What is the sound quality like for AND NOW...THE RUNAWAYS. I'm hoping it's similar to the other reissues.
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Post by Hawkeye on May 20, 2008 22:09:21 GMT -5
Cool, Thanks Wasted-I lean on you for stuff! LOL
Still waiting on mine...............
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Post by gusdanger on May 20, 2008 23:20:38 GMT -5
I, too, am wondering about the sound quality! Was it remastered? GD
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Post by wasted on May 21, 2008 13:07:53 GMT -5
I finally got a chance to listen to And Now... The Runaways. I don't think it was remastered. As far as I can tell, the 2008 reissue sounds the same as the 1993 picture disc reissue I have. "Takeover" still ends abruptly and goes right into "My Buddy And Me."
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Post by heaventonight on May 21, 2008 14:13:29 GMT -5
waste of money again.
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Post by Hawkeye on May 22, 2008 14:32:56 GMT -5
Official-from Cherry Red. No Re Mastering in the CD. Straight repress
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Post by heaventonight on May 27, 2008 16:04:41 GMT -5
Got mine today, the booklet is nice, just wish they could have spent some time and money remastering it. They also refer to Meryl Laguna as Kenny's "then-wife" so I guess they are divorced. Wondered that for quite awhile since she is no longer mentioned much.
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Post by wasted on Jun 30, 2008 7:05:04 GMT -5
Cherry Red put their May/June 08 newsletter online recently. Here's their writeup about the reissue and the new collection. Runaways
Japanese Singles Collection CDMRED 358
And Now . . . CDMGRAM 63
The Runaways – such a fabled band, and one about whom much inaccuracy and myth persists. We shall try our hardest not to compound that, while attempting to describe the journey of a rat pack of teenage girls from obscurity to legendary status as progenitors of fem-rock, shepop or quality unisex glam rock – as you prefer. Of course, you’re always going to get a fair bit of myth when Californian svengali Kim Fowley is involved. The entire notion of having five teenage girls dressed in leather and lingerie while cranking out mean rock ‘n ‘ roll music - a concept he would christen “jailbait on the run” - was his alone. It would later transpire that the individual components of the Runaways were a deal more serious about their music than Fowley anticipated – they had ideas and brains in addition to what some rather unchivalrous souls would refer to as T&A. In fact, it’s a full-blown misconception – and no small source of grievance - that the Runaways were a manufactured band, their strings pulled by Fowley.
The Japanese Singles Collection brings together all the singles released by the band in that territory – many of them highly collectable - for the first time on CD. The package includes sleevenotes, lyrics, discography and reproductions of the distinctive picture sleeves. Released in September 1978, meanwhile, And Now . . . failed to reach the charts in Europe or America. But while reviews were middling, it proved a strong seller for the still infant Cherry Red. In opening track ‘Saturday Nite Special’, their cover of Slade’s ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now’ and ‘Black Leather’ (written by the Sex Pistols’ Jones/Cook axis, and later covered by a post-Lydon Pistols) it contained several of the Runaways’ finest moments. There was also a rare Sandy West vocal on ‘Right Now’, an even rarer one by Lita Ford on ‘I’m A Million’, and a couple of standout Joan Jett leads on Ford’s composition ‘Little Lost Girls’ and ‘’My Buddy And Me’.
www.cherryred.co.uk/crzone/newsletters/0805.pdf
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