Track Listing

1. Get Across To You
2. Why Can't It Be
3. Show Me
4. All I Need Is Money
5. Double Checkin' Woman
6. Kid's Are Alright
7. Teenage Depression
8. Horseplay
9. Been So Long
10. Shake
11. On The Run
12. Writing On The Wall
13. Crusin' (In The Lincoln)
14. Wooly Bully
15. Horseplay
16. 96 Tears
17. Get Out Of Denver
18. Gloria/Satisfaction
19. On The Run
20. Hard Drivin' Man
21. Horseplay
22. Double Checkin' Woman
23. All I Need Is Money

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87705 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Over the course of the long, hot summer of 1976 it seemed that Southend's Eddie And The Hot Rods were embarking on a one-way trip to superstardom. Considered to be a younger and more exuberant version of gritty, R&B pub rockers Dr Feelgood, they were serially smashing attendance records during a prolonged Marquee Club residency while effortlessly making the longhaired status quo an anachronism. Yet, to echo their debut single, there was already a good deal of "Writing On The Wall" for the Rods, as their Marquee support band, the Sex Pistols, were about to consign them to the cultural dumper. This debut collection however, catches the quartet on the crest of an upwardly-mobile wave where everything still seemed possible, and their edgy, blazing energy is both tangible and infectious. From "Get Across To You" to "On The Run", Teenage Depression remains a hot and sweaty, rough and ready, pub rock classic. --Ian Fortnam

Customer Reviews

Fast fun that brings back memories...
Boy did this album bring back memories! Eddie and the Hot Rods appeared right in the middle of the punk boom, but they really weren't punk. Just good old fashioned high energy rock and roll delivered with a lot of passion, and raw energy. The band were well known at the time for the quality of their live concerts, and this is fairly well captured in the live tracks - though it could never fully recapture seeing them live in the old Marquee club, when they delivered what I consider to be the most exciting live concert experience I ever had. The live tracks are not just padding, but an essential part of the music.The band really enjoy themselves, and it comes through.

Perhaps that is why their music has lasted so much better than the majority of dreary punks whining about being on the dole...

The birth of punk rock.
So Malcolm McLaren might have invented the term, but this album, which appeared before the Sex Pistols hit the scene, tuned straight into a young, music-loving public who were fed up with the self-obsessed and pretentious rock sound of the mid seventies. I was a Feelgood fan, but then I heard this album: how could the beat be so fast, the lyrics so anarchic? The title track says 'I'm spending all my money and its going up my nose' in an unashamed reference to the glue-sniffing that was epidemic at the time 'My probation man says 'you know you oughta quit', I say don't you hang me up now with none of that sh**t!'. Its commonplace now, I know, but at the time it was mind-blowing. I bought this album on vinyl and played it until it was too scratched to play, even with all those old pennies on the record arm. The energy of the playing wasn't bettered through the whole of the punk revolution and I always thought of the Sex Pistols as just jumping on the already-rolling bandwagon. When I taped my copy, I added the tracks from the 'Live at the marquee' E.P., which made the perfect addition to an album which could only be faulted in being too short!

"Live at the Marquee" E.P tracks Included!
Tracks 16, 17 & 18 are the original tracks from the classic "Live at the Marquee" E.P from 1976 - this is worth the price of the CD alone!