Walking out on Love: The Lost Sessions

WALKING OUT ON LOVE: THE LOST SESSIONS

In 2009, tapes resurfaced of their early sessions that the Breakaways hadn't even remembered that they had made, and Alive Records put together a CD for this group called Walking out on Love: The Lost Sessions. Together with the Nerves CD – One Way Ticket – this album is being offered in a specially priced package with a brand new Alive CD of the Plimsouls at the top of their game playing live at the Whisky a Go Go in October 1981, called Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal. Highly recommended. Check it out at the Bomp! mailorder site: http://www.bompstore.com/breakaways-nerves-related-powerpop-walking-out-on-love-the-lost-sessions-cd/

(April 2010)

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Basically dropping everything and pushing a band to the top of the heap on the UARA/UARB stack has happened only one other time among these posts, and it was quite awhile ago: the UARB for April 2010, the Breakaways. I had ordered a power-pop package from Bomp!: a retrospective album of the Nerves , a brand-new CD of a killer live show by the Plimsouls, and then a CD by the Breakaways. After Jack Lee left the Nerves, the other two members of the band, Paul Collins and Peter Case started playing with a variety of other musicians. They used the name the Breakaways, but it arguably never was really a band: These guys just wanted to keep making music together. Other than "Walking out on Love", just about everything they did was rehearsals and live shows, and no one ever thought that any of that material had survived.

Then someone found a tape of a lot of their rehearsals that they had forgotten had even been made, and this was turned into a CD called Walking out on Love: The Lost Sessions.

(December 2012)

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This is the album, that I was writing about by the Breakaways, Walking out on Love: The Lost Sessions; it was mostly compiled from tapes that had literally been stashed away and forgotten in a garage:

(April 2013)