Comments on: The Modern Lovers :: Reissued (U.S.)

By: alejandro

alejandro — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:56:10 +0000

Finally reissued! It was available through I-Tunes, though if you didn’t want to pay the import price…

By: Robin Hall

Robin Hall — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:22:55 +0000

I saw what may have been their last gig as a band in New York in early 1974. Jonathan Richman played a Fender Strat which he never plugged in. They still sounded great.

By: will

will — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:23:36 +0000

File under required listening.

By: ib

ib — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:29:55 +0000

From what i can gather, there exists THREE versions of “roadrunner” ; “roadrunner (thrice)” appearing as the flipside to “the morning of our lives” 45 issued on beserkley in 1977, and allegedly unavailable anywhere else according to the sleevenotes.

While the single “roadrunner (once)”, i take it, was the same version lifted from the original 1976 album, it appeared with two different flipsides on release – “pablo picasso” and another version of “roadrunner” attributed solely (i think) to jr.

Any idea whether this version from the castle/sanctuary release is no. 2 or 3 ?

By: j. neas

j. neas — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:20:24 +0000

You have no idea how close I was to playing this album as one of my final, summertime Wholesale albums on my radio show. *puts fingers together* This close! And I was randomly humming songs from it this morning in the shower. Get out of my head!

Second, anyone who’s heard the new M.I.A. album knows that album opener “Bamboo Banga” starts off with lyrics lifted straight from “Roadrunner.” Great stuff.