The Runaways - "The Mercury Albums Anthology" Revealed

The Runaways – “The Mercury Albums Anthology” Revealed

February 10, 2010 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

After announcing it a few weeks ago (and teasing all about it on Twitter today) Hip-O Select has started pre-orders for The Mercury Albums Anthology, a two-disc compilation of nearly all of the albums released by the proto-riot-grrl group that launched the careers of Joan Jett, Lita Ford and other female rock luminaries.

The set itself looks pretty straightforward. The band’s first four albums – The Runaways (1976), Queens of Noise (1977), Live in Japan (1977) and Waitin’ for the Night (1977) – are presented on the two discs with no bonus tracks. (Note that the group’s final album, And Now…The Runaways (1979), was eventually released in 1981 by Rhino Records as the resequenced Little Lost Girls.)

It is odd, though, that no liner notes are mentioned – Hip-O Select usually delivers the goods in their packaging and do a good job of saying so when it’s time to attract buyers. Hopefully time will prove us wrong. View the tracks after the jump.

Disc 1

Cherry Bomb
You Drive Me Wild
Is It Day or Night?
Thunder
Rock & Roll
Lovers
American Nights
Blackmail
Secrets
Dead End Justice
Queens of Noise (Live)
California Paradise (Live)
All Right You Guys (Live)
Wild Thing (Live)
Getting Hot (Live)
Rock & Roll (Live)
You Drive Me Wild (Live)
Neon Angels on the Road to Ruin (Live)
I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are (Live)
Cherry Bomb (Live)
American Nights (Live)
C’mon (Live)

Tracks 1-10 released as The Runaways (Mercury SRM-1-1090, 1977)
Tracks 11-22 released as Live in Japan (Mercury SRM-1-3740, 1977)

Disc 2

Queens of Noise
Take It or Leave It
Midnight Music
Born to Be Bad
Neon Angels on the Road to Ruin
I Love Playin’ with Fire
California Paradise
Hollywood
Heartbeat
Johnny Guitar
Little Sister
Wasted
Gotta Get Out Tonight
Wait for Me
Fantasies
School Days
Trash Can Murders
Don’t Go Away
Waitin’ for the Night
You’re Too Possessive

Tracks 1-10 released as Queens of Noise (Mercury SRM-1- 1126, 1977)
Tracks 11-20 released as Waitin’ for the Night (Mercury SRM-1-3705, 1977)

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.