Here's a little rundown of the three Avengers CDs available from us.
All tracks recorded in 1977-1979 (except as noted)
The "pink album" is what I call the self-titled LP/CD that came out on CD Presents Records (1983), has the same 3 versions of "Car Crash" "I Believe in Me" and "We are the One" from the Dangerhouse EP (1977) and, I believe the same versions of "white nigger" and "Corpus Christi" as the White Noise (1979) EP, but different versions of "American In Me" and "Uh-Oh".
It also has studio recordings of 8 more songs: open your eyes, no martyr, desperation, thin white line, paint it black, second to none, cheap tragedies, and money. The one live song on the record is "Fuck You"
The "died for your sins" (1999) CD on Lookout has 7 studio recordings: Teenage Rebel, Friends Of Mine and The Good The Bad And The Kowalskis were from the Iguana rehearsal studio recordings. The early version of White Nigger was demoed at Wally Heider Studios and is quite different from the one Steve Jones produced on the Avengers EP from 1979. And "Crazy Homicide", "I Want In" and "The End Of The World" were re-recorded for this album in 1999. Plus 9 live recordings and a list of all Avengers shows.
The latest CD "The American in Me" (2004) has 4 studio tracks, and 8 live tracks recorded at the Old Waldorf in 1979 and recently released on the Italian vinyl import LP Zero Hour. The CD has a 16 page booklet with photos, show lists, flyers and new liner notes written by Greil Marcus, as well as Penelope's liner notes about the Waldorf show. The first 4 tracks are studio recordings, but different versions than any previously released: we are the one, the american in me, white nigger, uh-oh, cheap tragedies, zero hour, corpus christi, release me, uh-oh, misery (finger on the trigger), time to die, the american in me.
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