A great slice of power pop from 1977. I first heard about Eddie and the Hot Rods from a poster I saw at Bruce Milne's place the first time I went round there. We had met at a traffic light in Hawthorn, I told him we were in a band called Subway.. a punk band..he advertised in the Swinburne paper to find us and now here I was listening to a rundown of the Melbourne scene. I had missed the first big event which was held at Swinburne. Punk gunk I think it was called. Just from the way he spoke about them The Boys Next Door were the really special band in town.
Anyway then we got onto the world scene. Being 1977 the records we talked about were a mix of old and new. He had the poster for Eddie and Hot rods "Teenage Depression" but he wasn't particularly impressed by them. No one I knew cared much about. Most thought of them as a old pub rock band. I think they're very underated. Just bad timing I guess. Their first singles before the whole punk thing happened were fast furious slabs of r & b. Later they changed direction a bit and went more power pop. And this is one of the new pop singles. And it's just great. The kind of song I wanted to write.
I'm gonna break out of the city
Leave the people here behind
Searching for adventure
It's the kind of life to find
Tired of doing day jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I know I must be someone
Now I'm gonna find out who
Why don't you ask them what they expect from you ?
Why don't you tell them what you're gonna do
You get so lonely, maybe it's better that way
It ain't you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do
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