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Review title: essential 70s punk rock
Product review: Richard Hell and the Voidoids produced a sound which was uniquely punk and yet unlike anything else around at the time. In a sense, they sounded like they looked; the album cover photos show them as having been pioneers of a punk visual style - a kind of torn apart look. Hell's vocals consisted of a nasely sneer; his singing range is limited, yet it is somehow appropriate to his skronky yet poppish, detachedly nihilistic tunes. The sound of the Voidoid was the sound of simple Ramones-like rhythms (though slower), Hell's yelping vocals, and dual lead guitars producing a wide variety of sometimes tuneful, sometimes atonal, noises. The overall result is somehow catchier than it ought to be. Blank Generation's title song, something of a punk anthem, is one of the standout tracks. Love Comes in Spurts, Who Says (it's Good to be Alive), Down at the Club, and New Pleasure are also among the great tunes on an important and still cool sounding record.
