{"id":22456,"date":"2023-06-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22456"},"modified":"2023-06-16T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T07:02:35","slug":"helen-love-yeah-yeah-were-helen-love-damaged-goods-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22456","title":{"rendered":"Helen Love – \u2018Yeah, Yeah, We\u2019re Helen Love\u2019 (Damaged Goods Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To celebrate the band\u2019s 30th<\/sup> anniversary, the folks at Damaged Goods Records are releasing a double CD\/vinyl compilation of dayglo, D.I.Y bubblegum punks, Helen Love. 30 years? I can\u2019t remember where I first heard them, possibly Mark and Lard on the late shift. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve always been here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u2018Yeah, Yeah, We\u2019re Helen Love\u2019 onwards, it\u2019s a reassuring trawl through their back catalogue. No one wants a drum n bass\/free jazz Helen Love album. It was no wonder that Joey Ramone invited them to New York, they share similar DNA; instantly memorable tunes for sunny days, or when you need to pretend that the sun is shining. Most of them fly past in under three minutes, always guaranteed to raise a smile. Whether it\u2019s \u2018Beat Him Up\u2019 or \u2018King Of Kung Fu\u2019, they put their Casio keyboard and Woolworths guitar to good use. Their hand made, primary colour record sleeves were designed by necessity, but perfectly suited the tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So In Love With You\u2019 would sit nicely in John Shuttleworth\u2019s set, a real compliment in my book! Oof!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They even had the nerve to nick the title \u2018Leader Of The Pack\u2019 for one of their songs. \u2018So Hot\u2019 should be the theme to your summer holiday. This is ear worms a-go-go. There\u2019s \u2018Joey Ramoney\u2019, of course, the perfect fan response song. I can even forgive their cut-up of \u2018Wig Wam Bam\u2019, and Joey himself appears on \u2018Punk Boy\u2019, a joyous duet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it\u2019s looking like we\u2019ll have a \u2018Golden Summer\u2019, this is the place to acquaint yourself with Helen Love. Over 30 songs. Tune into their own \u2018Summer Pop Radio\u2019, break out the ice pops and stop being so serious. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the band\u2019s 30th anniversary, the folks at Damaged Goods Records are releasing a double CD\/vinyl compilation of dayglo, D.I.Y bubblegum punks, Helen Love. 30 years? I can\u2019t remember where I first heard them, possibly Mark and Lard on the late shift. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve always been here. From \u2018Yeah, Yeah, We\u2019re Helen Love\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2043,6009,1787,1800,1710,1681,2052],"class_list":["post-22456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-damaged-goods-records","tag-helen-love","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-martin-chamarette","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22458,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions\/22458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}