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Destiny Street Repaired

Richard Hell and the Voidoids

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2009, Insound

INSOUND EXCLUSIVE! The CD version of Destiny Street Repaired comes in a digipak with an 8-page booklet featuring new, original text by Richard Hell. For the deluxe, limited vinyl version of this album (which comes with a CD, poster and bonus tracks), click here.

Since 1977, Richard Hell has made only three studio albums, Blank Generation (1977), Destiny Street (1982), and Dim Stars (1992). Destiny Street contains some of his best and most popular songs - such as "The Kid with the Replaceable Head" and "Time" - but Richard always felt dissatisfied with the sound of the album. He was in the worst depths of his drug dependency at the time it was made, and couldn't muster enough commitment to bother showing up for over a week of the recording sessions. He'd call in and order more guitar tracks. Then in 2004 Hell was able to recover rights to the album. He deliberately let it go out of print, pending a hypothetical improved version to re-release. Two years later he discovered a two-track mix of the original 1982 rhythm tracks of bass, drums, and two rhythm guitars, without any vocals or solos or further guitar. Hell realized this created an opportunity to re-make the record on the foundation of the original band. Destiny Street Repaired is the result. It's a freshly recorded, edited, and mixed version of Destiny Street, using players of the highest caliber to replace the undifferentiated multi-overdubbed, extended guitar solos of the original, and presenting all new vocals, and some new edits and arrangements, by Hell. Relevant too is that the new guitar players - Bill Frisell, Ivan Julian, and Marc Ribot - were all greatly admired by, and share musical values with, Robert Quine, the deceased main soloist in Richard's original band, the Voidoids. In an unprecedented move, Hell has grabbed the best part of a twenty-seven year old recording, and mixed in fresh guitar genius, and brilliant new vocals and production, to fulfill the original music's tremendous potential: Destiny Street Repaired.

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Tracklisting

Disc 1

1	Kid with the Replaceable Head
2	I Gotta Move
3	Going Going Gone
4	Lowest Common Dominator
5	Downtown at Dawn
6	Time
7	I Can Only Give You Everything
8	Ignore That Door
9	Staring in Her Eyes
10	Destiny Street

Marty Thau

Perhaps Destiny Street Repaired will improve upon the original version but in defense of Alan Betrock's original production, Robert Palmer, the New York Times music critic wrote in 1982 that Destiny Street was the third best record of the year. Lester Bangs chimed in with &#34;the music on this album is some of the strongest, truest rock &#38; roll I've heard in ages. Like most great rock &#38; roll, it stands alone; there are influences, not all of them musical and many of them literary; in fact this is some of the most honest music I have heard in some time. The toughness of the music is just defensive armor, courtesy of the searchlight-destructive tag-team of Robert Quine and Ivan Julian on guitars, who have slashed out some of the most fitfully dangerous rock &#38; roll I've heard this decade.''

Roy Suggs

That quotation from Lester was written about the Blank Generation album and was published in 1977, five years before the release of Destiny Street. The whole article/review is printed in the booklet to Hell's retrospective CD, Spurts. It's weird, but maybe revealing, that the &#34;reviewer&#34; who publishes that bogus quote, if he is Marty Thau, had a long complicated role in the record's history and usually lists it conspicuously in his self-description, BUT does not recognize that that quote could not have been about Destiny Street, because the quote credits Ivan Julian with guitar and Ivan Julian did not play on the original Destiny Street.

Quine did say in an interview (at http://www.furious.com/perfect/quine/quinederogatis.html
) that he'd played a copy of Destiny Street for Bangs the day before Bangs died, which happened the same week mixing was completed on the album, and that Bangs liked it. But Bangs died that very same day! There is no other evidence regarding Bangs's opinion of the record than Quine's anecdote.

I, on the other hand, believe that the new version, all things considered, is superior to the original version. But I might be prejudiced too, as I am the webmaster of www.richardhell.com

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