THE MODERN LOVERS (SAME) 1976 HOME OF THE HITS EARLY REPRESS VG+/VG- RARE OOP

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ARTIST: THE MODERN LOVERS (JONATHAN RICHMAN) W/ FUTURE TALKING HEAD KEYBOARDIST JERRY HARRISON

TITLE- “THE MODERN LOVERS”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS & BELOW:

A1

Roadrunner

4:06

A2

Astral Plane

3:00

A3

Old World

4:00

A4

Pablo Picasso

4:21

B1

She Cracked

2:55

B2

Hospital

5:31

B3

Someone I Care About

3:39

B4

Girl Friend

3:55

B5

Modern World

3:44

Credits

• Bass, Backing Vocals – Ernie Brooks

• Compiled By, Remix – Matthew King Kaufman

• Coordinator [LP co-ordination] – Jim Blodgett

• Drums, Backing Vocals – David Robinson (3)

• Mastered By – G. Horn*

• Musical Assistance [LP assistance] – T. Lubin*

• Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals – Jerry Harrison

• Producer – John Cale (tracks: A1 to A4, B1, B3)

• Recorded By – Alan Mason (3) (tracks: B4, B5), Robert Appere* (tracks: B4, B5)

• Remix – Gary Phillips, Glen Kolotkin

• Written-By, Vocals, Guitar – Jonathan Richman

Notes

Printed in USA.

Notes on runout matrices:
There are two earlier catalog numbers present in the runouts of Variant 2 (and possibly Variant 1), both etched/crossed out:
Side A: "HH-1910-A-1B" and "HH 1901 A-1B"
Side B: "HH-1910-B-1A" and " HH 1901 B-1A"
The first set is the original pressing's catalog number, and the second seems to have been a mistake made while inscribing the original number (the one and zero being transposed).

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): BZ-0050-A

• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): BZ-0050-B

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched (Var.1)): BZ-0050-A-1B

• Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched (Var.1)): BZ-0050-B-1D

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched (Var.2)): BZ-0050-A-1B S1

• Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched (Var.2)): BZ-0050-B-1A S2

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1976

LABEL- “HOME OF THE HITS” (PRE-BESERKLEY) RECORDS

CAT.#: BZ-0050

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG+ , NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE SONGS SOUND GREAT. THIS PLAYS VERY CLEAN. THERE'S SOME VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES MAINLY ON SIDE 2, THERE'S SOME LIGHT VISIBLE WEAR,

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO SEAM SPLITS, NO WRITING, BENDS, MARKS, WRITING ON IT. THERE'S LIGHT VISIBLE RING WEAR ON BOTH SIDES OF THE JACKET. CUT CORNER DONE BY THE RECORD COMPANY (SEE PHOTO). SMALL CORNER “DING' LOWER RIGHT, THERE'S THE REMNANTS OF AN OLD PRICE STICKER UPPER RIGHT CORNER. LIGHT EDGE WEAR IN A COUPLE SPOTS, ALL IN ALL GOOD SHAPE FOR IT'S AGE.

MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. DISCOGS MENTIONS THIS IS A “STEREO REPRESS” AND THIS HAS THE SCRTACHED OUT NUMBERS ON BOTH OF THE MATRIXES THEN HAS THE CORRECT ETCHED NUMBERS. (SEE ABOVE FOR A BIT MORE INFO). JOHN CALE PRODUCED THE BULK OF THE TRAX.

ARTIST/ALBUM INFO:The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later. It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson (later of The Cars) and keyboardist Jerry Harrison (later of Talking Heads). The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of the Velvet Underground, and is now sometimes classified as "proto-punk". It pointed the way towards much of the punk rock, new wave, alternative and indie rock music of later decades. Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers, contained idiosyncratic songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, and love of life and the USA.

Later, between 1976 and 1988, Richman used the name Modern Lovers for a variety of backing bands, always billed as "Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers". These bands were quieter and featured more low-key, often near-childlike songs as Richman drew on folk-rock and other genres. Of Richman's original bandmates, only Robinson was part of any of the other Modern Lovers incarnations.

Break-up and release of first album

Following the failure to complete a debut album, Warner Brothers withdrew their support for The Modern Lovers, and Robinson left the band. They continued to perform live for a few months with new drummer Bob Turner, but Richman was increasingly unwilling to perform his old (although still unreleased) songs such as "Roadrunner", and after a final disagreement between him and Harrison over musical style the band split up in February 1974.

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed The Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded The Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A&M. While Richman never returned to the Velvets-inspired sound of the original Modern Lovers, the demo recordings made with that group eventually surfaced in various formats. The first of these releases came in 1976 when Beserkley compiled a posthumous LP from the first two demo sessions produced by Cale and Mason; issued on Beserkley's Home of the Hits subsidiary, the album was simply titled The Modern Lovers and included celebrated tracks such as "Roadrunner", "She Cracked", and "Pablo Picasso".

Richman did not recognize this compilation as his "first album," preferring to recognize his debut as 1976's Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, an album pursuing the lighter, softer direction he had in mind with a completely different band (the two collections were released within months of each other). However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as "one of the truly great art rock albums of all time", and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols (who covered "Roadrunner" on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle).

The Modern Lovers is the debut studio album by American rock band the Modern Lovers. It was released on Beserkley Records in 1976, although the original nine tracks had been recorded in 1972 (or 1971 in the case of "Hospital"). Six of the original tracks were produced by John Cale. In 2003, the album was ranked number 381 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[4] and 382 in 2012.

Release

In late 1974, Richman signed as a solo artist with Matthew "King" Kaufman's new label, "Home of the Hits", soon to be renamed Beserkley Records, and recorded four tracks with backing by the bands Earth Quake and The Rubinoos, including new versions of both "Roadrunner" and "Government Center". These tracks were first issued as singles, and then on an album Beserkley Chartbusters Vol.1 in 1975. In 1976, with a new line-up of the Modern Lovers, Richman began recording what he went on to regard as his debut album, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

However, in the meantime, Kaufman also put together the album The Modern Lovers from remixed versions of the tracks recorded four or more years earlier for Warner Brothers and A&M, and released it in August 1976. "Hospital" was credited as being 'donated by Jerry Harrison' because he possessed the original 1971 session tapes.

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