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Ending with Destiny Street Demos (1978-1980), filled with additional songs that didn’t make the final cut, every part of Destiny Street Complete functions as its own individual work. The songs were never a problem, and the original album worked as it was. But all these alternate universe versions are equally valid as well, whether listened to discretely or as a whole. The album is the focus of the conclusion of our chat. The occasion upon which we are having our first-ever conversation is a most interesting version of an album I love, but you apparently were not pleased with it.

Destiny Street must have seemed like a dead end to Richard Hell & The Voidoids in 1982. Unsatisfied with the art punk originators’ second and final album, perhaps troubled by its rather thin, muffled sound or its flailing chaos, Hell wanted desperately to remix the wild and woolly successor to 1977’s seminal Blank Generation debut. Unfortunately, the original 24-track masters went missing, preventing Hell from performing the necessary operation. As luck would have it, in the early 2000s, Hell stumbled upon a cassette from 1981 with all the LP’s rhythm tacks, which allowed him to instal...

Music Reviews: Prince's 'Sign O' the Times' (Super Deluxe Edition) Plus Richard Hell Sign In Jeff Burger, BLOGCRITICS.ORG FacebookTwitterEmail A new edition of Sign O' the Times, Prince's brilliant and remarkably eclectic 1987 double album, easily earns its "super deluxe" billing with a long list of bonus goodies. Delivered in an LP-sized slipcase, the set includes an excellent remaster of the original album on two discs, plus six additional CDs: one with remastered single mixes and edits, three with previously unreleased contemporaneous material from the vaults, and two with a terrific Jun...

Legendary punk rock band Blank Generation in 1977, but its follow-up LP, Destiny Street (recorded in 1981 and released in 1982), wasn’t up to snuff recording-wise, according to the renowned Richard Hell. Finally Destiny Street (the New York-based rockers’ second and final album) has been taken into the meticulous and informed care of Omnivore Recordings and restored, revamped, and expanded into the classic opus it was meant to be. On January 22nd Omnivore is releasing Destiny Street Complete, a four-record (two CDs; digital) odyssey with new liner notes by Richard Hell outlining the...

>> guest: i think the obama administration has made a shift from the bush administration and recognizing there is an important role for government. but the question is how do you -- what that role is. how big a role ought to be. they all agree they're ought to be able, even the financial sector agree they're ought to be the role bailing them out giving them a lot of money so everybody agrees the government should do something if we are going to give the bank's money. but some of us think it should have a broad role and we talked in this conversation a lot about the role in preventing...