Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1 

1. One Track Mind (Remix) (02:39)
2. I Wanna Be Loved (Remix) (02:47)
3. Pirate Love (Remix) (03:57)
4. Let Go (Remix) (02:25)
5. Do You Love Me? (Remix) (02:08)
6. Can't Keep My Eyes On You (Remix) (03:48)
7. Get Off The Phone (Remix) (02:02)
8. All By Myself (Remix) (02:52)
9. Chinese Rocks (Remix) (02:55)
10. Baby Talk (Remix; Live) (02:24)
11. Going Steady (Remix) (02:44)
12. It's Not Enough (Remix) (03:49)
13. I Love You (Remix) (02:24)
14. Born to Lose (Remix) (03:01)

Disc 2 

1. Introduction (Spoken Word;Live at The Lyceum) (00:17)
2. Pipeline (Live at The Lyceum) (02:29)
3. Personality Crisis (Live at The Lyceum) (02:56)
4. One Track Mind (Live at The Lyceum) (03:35)
5. Too Much Junkie Business (Live at The Lyceum) (02:52)
6. Do You Love Me? (Live at The Lyceum) (02:06)
7. Just Because I'm White (Live at The Lyceum) (03:47)
8. Copy Cat (Live at The Lyceum) (01:34)
9. Baby Talk (Live at The Lyceum) (01:42)
10. Born to Lose (Live at The Lyceum) (02:38)
11. All By Myself (Live at The Lyceum) (02:35)
12. In Cold Blood (Live at The Lyceum) (02:16)
13. Seven Day Weekend (Live at The Lyceum) (02:17)
14. So Alone (Live at The Lyceum) (07:57)

Disc 3 

1. Chinese Rocks (Live at The Speakeasy) (03:55)
2. All By Myself (Live at The Speakeasy) (03:03)
3. Let Go (Live at The Speakeasy) (02:50)
4. Can't Keep My Eyes On You (Live at The Speakeasy) (03:49)
5. I Wanna Be Loved (Live at The Speakeasy) (03:30)
6. Do You Love Me? (Live at The Speakeasy) (02:38)
7. Get Off The Phone (Live at The Speakeasy) (02:22)
8. Going Steady (Live at The Speakeasy) (02:57)
9. I Love You (Live at The Speakeasy) (02:28)
10. Born to Lose (Live at The Speakeasy) (03:26)
11. Joey Joey (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (04:35)
12. As Tears Go By (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (03:50)
13. Disappointed In You (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (05:34)
14. Sad Vacation (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (03:49)
15. Lydia (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (04:23)
16. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990)
(06:49)
17. Bring It On Home (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (03:50)
18. Eve Of Destruction (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (06:01)
19. You Can Walk My Dog (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (04:08)
20. It's Not Enough (Live & Wasted, Unplugged 1990) (04:08)


 moreUnder the name Johnny Volume, Genzale began performing in high school
with local combos Johnny & the Jaywalkers and the Reign (an unreleased Reign
tune recorded in 1967 was released as a single after Thunders' death); after
those bands ran their course, he joined Actress, which featured future Dolls
Arthur Kane and Billy Murcia. Actress became the New York Dolls in 1971, with
the addition of vocalist David Johansen, and Genzale renamed himself Johnny
Thunders. After recording two acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums,
the Dolls broke up. In 1975, Thunders and the group's drummer Jerry Nolan formed
the Heartbreakers with former Television bassist Richard Hell and guitarist
Walter Lure. Hell left the group shortly afterward to form the Voidoids and was
replaced by Billy Rath. With Thunders leading the band, the Heartbreakers toured
America and Britain, releasing one official album, L.A.M.F., in 1977. The group
relocated to the U.K., where their popularity was significantly greater than it
was in the U.S., particularly on the burgeoning punk scene. Thunders earned a
reputation for powerful but inconsistent performances -- solid and rollicking
one night, incoherent, sloppy, and drunken the next, sometimes veering between
the two extremes in a single evening. After several months, the group returned
to America, where they played a series of farewell gigs in New York.

Thunders went solo in 1978, recording So Alone with various rock and punk
celebrities, including the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones and Paul Cook, Steve
Marriott (Small Faces, Humble Pie), Peter Perrett (Only Ones), Paul Gray (Eddie
and the Hot Rods, the Damned), and Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott. After its release,
Thunders and Peter Perrett played in the short-lived band Living Dead, while in
1980 Thunders teamed up with MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in the band Gang Wars,
another project that soon fizzled out. During the early '80s, Thunders re-formed
the Heartbreakers for various tours and periodic "farewell" shows in New York
City, with their stage work documented on a series of live albums, often of
dubious legality.

For most of the '80s, the only Johnny Thunders product available consisted of
haphazard compilations of live tracks and demos. In 1984, Thunders rebounded
with a surprisingly strong acoustic album, Hurt Me, followed in 1985 by Que
Sera, Sera, a collection of new songs that showed he could still perform
convincingly. Three years later, the guitarist recorded an album of rock and R&B
covers with vocalist Patti Palladin, Copy Cats. And in 1991, German punk band
Die Toten Hosen paid homage to Thunders by inviting him to play guitar on a
cover of the Heartbreakers' "Born to Lose" on their album Learning English:
Lesson One.

After recording with Die Toten Hosen, Thunders settled in New Orleans, where he
planned to cut an album with local jazz and R&B musicians. However, only a few
days later, Thunders was found dead in his room at the St. Peter House on April
23, 1991. Thunders' passing was shrouded in rumor and uncertainty; while it was
widely believed he overdosed on drugs, friends insisted the guitarist was
weaning himself off heroin with methadone, while others believed he was the
victim of sadistic burglars who ransacked his room after feeding him LSD, and
still others reported Thunders was struggling with an untreated case of
leukemia. Though Thunders' passing was strange and chaotic, it was curiously
appropriate -- no other rock & roller ever lived as hard and traveled as
individual a path as Johnny Thunders. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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