The Runaways - The Mercury Albums Anthology (2010)

CD 1
01. Cherry Bomb 
02. You Drive Me Wild 
03. Is It Day or Night? 
04. Thunder 
05. Rock & Roll 
06. Lovers 
07. American Nights 
08. Blackmail 
09. Secrets 
10. Dead End Justice 
11. Queens of Noise [Live] 
12. California Paradise [Live] 
13. All Right You Guys [Live] 
14. Wild Thing [Live] 
15. Gettin’ Hot [Live] 
16. Rock N Roll [Live] 
17. You Drive Me Wild [Live] [Live] 
18. Neon Angels On the Road To Ruin [Live] 
19. I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are [Live] 
20. Cherry Bomb [Live] 
21. American Nights [Live] 
22. C’Mon [Live]

CD 2
01. Queens of Noise 
02. Take It or Leave It 
03. Midnight Music 
04. Born To Be Bad 
05. Neon Angels On the Road To Ruin 
06. I Love Playin’ With Fire 
07. California Paradise 
08. Hollywood 
09. Heartbeat 
10. Johnny Guitar 
11. Little Sister 
12. Wasted 
13. Gotta Get Out Tonight 
14. Wait For Me 
15. Fantasies 
16. School Days 
17. Trash Can Murders 
18. Don’t Go Away 
19. Waitin’ For the Night 
20. You’re Too Possessive

Vickie Blue - Bass, Vocals
Cherie Currie - Piano, Vocals
Lita Ford - Guitar
Jackie Fox - Bass, Vocals
Joan Jett - Guitar, Vocals
Sandy West - Drums, Vocals

Released in conjunction with the silver screen dramatization of the Runaways’ saga, Hip-O Select’s The Mercury Albums Anthology rounds up the group’s four albums - 1976’s The Runaways, plus Live in Japan, Queens of Noise, and Waitin’ for the Night, all released in 1977-- in a slick two-disc set. Anybody won over to the Runaways via the charms or Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning will find this to be much too much -- really, they’ll be satiated by a quick download of “Cherry Bomb” -- as this is intended for connoisseurs of sleaze and those under the impression that the female foursome were pioneers not at all under the skeevy thumb of Kim Fowley. Both groups may find what’s contained on Mercury Albums Anthology somewhat underwhelming: the Runaways plodded as much as the plundered, hammering out three-chord riffs that had more to do with frizzy-haired metal than any kind of proto-punk. Live, they had a modicum of energy, as evidenced by Live in Japan, but they wound up being highly polished and packaged in the studio, with Fowley steering them ever so slightly toward sticky, disposable bubblegum. Joan Jett eventually wound up digging in her heels, asserting control on Waitin’ for the Night, but by then, the band was straining under Fowley’s direction, and the end was near. All this is, of course, apparent on this de facto complete recordings -- they knocked out another record after leaving Mercury -- but the lasting impression of this double-disc set is that the Runaways’ myth is always better than their music. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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