The Waldos - Rent Party

Jungle

£8.51

Genre: Punk
Format: CD
Catalogue No.: FREUDCD114
B/C: 5013145211427
Release Date: 30th July 2021

WALTER LURE of THE HEARTBREAKERS’ 1994 studio album CD reissue.
Plus four bonus tracks, from sought-after 7” vinyl. Follows RSD Drop 2 vinyl LP.
Includes Heartbreakers favourites and Walter Lure originals.

Walter Lure was the co-frontman and songwriter for the HEARTBREAKERS, responsible for ‘L.A.M.F.’ songs such as ‘One Track Mind’, ‘Get Off The Phone’ and ‘All By Myself’. He formed The Waldos in the late 80’s, and issued ‘Rent Party’, produced by The Dictators’ Andy Shernoff, in 1994. Sadly, Walter died in August 2020, the last of the ‘L.A.M.F.’ Heartbreakers. His memoir "To Hell And Back" will be published by Backbeat in paperback edition on June 1, 2021.

‘Rent Party’ features three songs known from The Heartbreakers era – the live favourite Seven Day Weekend, Jerry Nolan’s Countdown Love and the early Heartbreakers Walter Lure composition, Flight. In all there’s six Lure compositions along with a couple from the late Tony Coiro, together with sixties covers of Claudine Clark’s Party Lights and Ray Charles’ Busted. The band is Joey Pinter, guitar, Tony Coiro on bass and Jeff West on drums. Extras on this CD and digital reissue are an early Waldos 7” from 1991, and a rare 1978 single by NY punk teens The Blessed whom Walter joined in between Heartbreakers tours.

Tracks: Cry Baby, Love That Kills, Sorry, Seven Day Weekend, Never Get Away, Golden Days, Flight, Countdown Love, Busted, Crazy Little Baby, Crazy Bout Your Love, Party Lights. Bonus tracks: Crazy Little Baby (7” vinyl version), Cry Baby (7” vinyl version), THE BLESSED: Deep Frenzy, American Bandstand.