...original Voidoids lineup of Hell with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, and Marc Bell, heard fewer than six months after they formed. There are three songs: "Blank Generation" (2:53) and "Another World" (5:59), which are the first studio recordings of songs that were re-recorded a few months later for the Sire/Warner Blank Generation album; and "You Gotta Lose" (3:29), which was also re-recorded for the Sire record, but wasn't used on the album. (That second studio version of "You Gotta Lose" only ever appeared on a Sire compilation LP called The Sire Machine Turns You On in 1978.) Clinton Heylin, in his book From the Velvets to the Voidoids (Penguin, 1993), says of the EP that "it may well be Hell's finest fifteen minutes." We'd take issue with that, but it's true that it has an innocent and crude power as well as a distinctness in its arrangements and mixes that are hard to beat.
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