Insound Staff Pick - 2008! This double CD contains rare and previously unreleased material ranging from the Heartbreakers in 1975 (when Hell co-founded the band with former New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan) through the Voidoids in various configurations from 1977 to 1983, featuring many performances by original band members Ivan Julian and Robert Quine and some by Marc Bell (which band members variously went on to play with Matthew Sweet, Lloyd Cole, Lou Reed, and the Ramones), as well as recordings with local musicians in New Orleans in 1984.

Disc One consists of material previously only available on the ROIR cassette R.I.P. (1984) plus three newly added tracks, while Disc Two contains a live show at London's The Music Machine from 1977 (with a certain vacant young pretty taking the stage to demand an encore) and a short set from CBGBs a few months later that includes Elvis Costello joining the band to sing Hell's ?You Gotta Lose.? The Music Machine date is a crude recording - via cassette tape of a mediocre sound system - but the frenzied performance more than compensates. The CBGB's date comes directly from the board for live radio broadcast so the audio is brilliant. This is no mere historical artifact - on the brink of 2002 it's still completely up to date.