Wednesday, February 23, 2011
ask me no questions
i've been pretty obsessed with johnny thunders' album, 'so alone' for a while now. thunders totally surpassed the punk stereotype by actually being an amazing guitarist, and by writing songs with some pretty sensitive lyrics. for a strung out punk, he was very in touch with his emotions. from the beginning of the record, he makes his skills apparent by opening with a cover of the surf rock song by the chantays, 'pipline.' thunders was one of the original members of the new york dolls, and later formed the heartbreakers with the dolls' drummer, and richard hell on bass. 'so alone' was recorded in 1978, and features vocals by chrissie hyde of the pretenders and instrumentals by awesome musicians like the sex pistols' steve jones and paul cook. in the same way the ramones covered the ronnettes' single, 'baby i love you,' thunders does a great cover of 'great big kiss' by the shangri-las on this album. i really can't get over how beautiful the songs 'ask me no questions,' 'you can't out your arms around a memory,' are, and '(she's so) untouchable' is that song you wish a guy had written about you.
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