Released March 7, 1983 Length 43:25 Label ROIR | Recorded Late 1982 Too Much Junkie Business(1983) Hurt Me(1983) Release date 7 March 1983 Genre Punk rock | |
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Too Much Junkie Business is a compilation of studio demos and live recordings, recorded in late 1982 by protopunk guitarist and singer Johnny Thunders. It is one of the original releases by Neil Cooper's then cassette-only label ROIR. It was reissued in 1999 on compact disc as The New Too Much Junkie Business.
Contents
- Johnny thunders too much junkie business live 1982
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Additional musicians
- Songs
- References
The album is notable for being one of the few places to find studio versions of Thunders' live staples "In Cold Blood" and "Just Another Girl", but the album is dominated by live recordings of a typically sloppy and chaotic Thunders performance at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City. Thunders also interjects some studio-recorded interjections throughout the album, including one where he claims that the title track, another live staple, was co-written by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley along with its actual author, longtime Thunders co-conspirator Walter Lure.
Another Thunders composition, "Who Needs Girls?", is credited wholly to Booker T. & The MG's because of its resemblance to the veteran Memphis soul act's instrumental "Green Onions".
Johnny thunders too much junkie business live 1982
Track listing
All tracks written by Johnny Thunders, except where noted.
- "Who Do Voodoo"
- "In Cold Blood"
- "Just Another Girl"
- "Sad Vacation"
- "Diary Of A Lover"
- "Get Off The Phone" (Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan)
- "Who Needs Girls?" (Booker T. Jones, Booker T. & the MG's)
- "Too Much Junkie Business" (Walter Lure)
- "King Of The Gypsies"
- "So Alone"
- "I Love You"
- "Great Big Kiss" (Shadow Morton)
- "Let Go" (Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan)
- "Jet Boy" (Johnny Thunders, David Johansen)
Personnel
Additional musicians
Songs
1Who Do Voodoo2:48
2In Cold Blood2:32
3Just Another Girl4:23