The first time you heard THE WiLDHEARTS?

[Damian]

"Caffeine Bomb" on "Top of the Pops"...

[nig1012]

pretty much like RADISH, i was a big dogs d'amour fan and was watching headbangers ball (with vanessa warwick**) and this band came on that featured bam out the dogs on drums, (also in the same show andy mccoys shooting gallery were featured with joe dog on guitar so i was a bit gutted that the dogs d'amour had all gone their seperate ways.)
anyway the song was 'nothing ever changes but the shoes' and the intro blew me away. i must have played it (i was recording the show for a mate) 20 times that night.then i went out and bought don't be happy just worry and the next 16 years or so have been a drunken blur.

**and no, venessa warwick wasn't watching it with me in my house but i wish she would have been

[Sarc]

I first heard them on either raw power or power hour same show different names, that one that had the bearded numpty Krusher and Anne something or other, first heard Caffeine Bomb when the video was played and thought it was terrible and avoided them like the plague for six months then turn on the tellybox halfway through the Suckerpunch video (the live Forum one) and loved it not knowing it was the same band from months before until the name flashed up at the end, a bit shocked was I so went back and listend to Caffeiene Bomb again and changed my mind, next day i was in London with a step parent and whined like a little baby until they let me go into tower records and track it down, didnt tell them it had naughty words in otherwise I wouldnt have been allowed to get it, 15 years later I'm still listening to the buggers regularly and trying to convert Mrs Sarcs seven year old into a fan by playing the non-sweary ones, its not working he told me the other day "They're SHITE!", I'm starting to think I dont have to worry about the sweary ones anymore.

[nig1012]

I first heard them on either raw power or power hour same show different names, that one that had the bearded numpty Krusher and Anne something or other, first heard Caffeine Bomb when the video was played and thought it was terrible and avoided them like the plague for six months then turn on the tellybox halfway through the Suckerpunch video (the live Forum one) and loved it not knowing it was the same band from months before until the name flashed up at the end, a bit shocked was I so went back and listend to Caffeiene Bomb again and changed my mind, next day i was in London with a step parent and whined like a little baby until they let me go into tower records and track it down, didnt tell them it had naughty words in otherwise I wouldnt have been allowed to get it, 15 years later I'm still listening to the buggers regularly and trying to convert Mrs Sarcs seven year old into a fan by playing the non-sweary ones, its not working he told me the other day "They're SHITE!", I'm starting to think I dont have to worry about the sweary ones anymore.

if he ever sez his mums a HEADFUCK then you'll know you're on the right track

[Mr. Joe]

First time for me was hearing Must Be Destroyed, wasn't too keen on it at first until a friend sent me a copy of Earth Vs and Black Leather Mojo. Since then I've had to buy nearly everything Ginger/Wildhearts related. Still amazes me now how I once thought they werent all that good.

[gimme]

when someone on the therapy? message boards recommended them, so II got hold of must be destroyed.

[InstantKarma]

I first heard them on either raw power or power hour same show different names, that one that had the bearded numpty Krusher and Anne something or other, first heard Caffeine Bomb when the video was played and thought it was terrible and avoided them like the plague for six months then turn on the tellybox halfway through the Suckerpunch video (the live Forum one) and loved it not knowing it was the same band from months before until the name flashed up at the end, a bit shocked was I so went back and listend to Caffeiene Bomb again and changed my mind, next day i was in London with a step parent and whined like a little baby until they let me go into tower records and track it down, didnt tell them it had naughty words in otherwise I wouldnt have been allowed to get it, 15 years later I'm still listening to the buggers regularly and trying to convert Mrs Sarcs seven year old into a fan by playing the non-sweary ones, its not working he told me the other day "They're SHITE!", I'm starting to think I dont have to worry about the sweary ones anymore.

My little sis was 9 when 'Earth Vs...' came out and my dad brought it home. She got round singing the sweary bits (so as not to offend my mother) but singing things like 'Greetings From Messville' and 'My Baby Is A Heifer'....worked a treat lol

[vickyp]

I think I first heard 'Greetings from Shitsville' on a free tape with a magazine (Vox perhaps?) and I thought that was easily the best song on there. Got some xmas money from the least favourite elderly relatives and I thought 'what can I spend this on that they'd really not approve of?'... so off to HMV I went.

I remember listening to Earth vs nice and loud while doing my homework, might even have been GCSE revision, (now that makes me feel old!) and my dad came in for a chat. This is during the refrain in 'my baby is a headfuck' where Ginger shouts 'Headfuck! Headfuck! Headfuck!' repeatedly. He didn't notice at first...

[Ean]

I think I first heard 'Greetings from Shitsville' on a free tape with a magazine (Vox perhaps?)

This one?



I, apparently, was watching the same episode of Raw Power as Sarc, but I did like Caffiene Bomb (as is the way we spell it now apparently ) the first time I heard it, and got hold of both it and Earth Vs on Cassette the first chance I had. It was quite handy then, that Mike LLoyd in Wolverhampton was pretty much next to the bus stop where I got the bus home.

After playing the album round and round for days to and from Uni and loving every second of it, I tracked down everything I could find (Not too much fortunately) and had all the singles on CD before I even owned a CD player. It's been terminally downhill from there.

[gavin]

Donnington 1994, i was 15, i listened to it live on the radio at work and remember them saying The Wildhearts wern't doing any interviews and then they didn't play them on air, i wasn't bothered, it was a band i didn't know.

Then I watched Headbangers Ball the next week and saw Suckerpunch!... and that was it, this was the best band i'd ever seen, I bought every CD, every copy of Kerrang, Raw, Metal Hammer, any magazine that had the Wildhearts in, i ordered back copies that had wildhearts related stuff.

20th of september was my 30th birthday, and i still today buy every CD, every magazine, anything wildhearts related. I have spent half of my life following this band.

[vickyp]

I think I first heard 'Greetings from Shitsville' on a free tape with a magazine (Vox perhaps?)

This one?

Yes! That's the one! I think I've got volume 1 somewhere in the attic too, but that one wasn't quite as life-changing.

[Andwah]

That's an eclectic mix, vox used to do quite good free stuff.

I first heard Wildhearts when my bro borrowed Earth V's off of his mate and i played it thinking it would never be anywhere near as good as Use Your Illusion II... Oh, how wrong could i have been, i remember my bro thought i was taking the piss when i said it was 'Mint'!

[skychaserhigh]

Had never heard anything until i saw the 5k review in Kerrang,

Promptly went to Spillers Records in Cardiff (oldest record shop in the world )
and purshased said album on cassette,Put it in my Walkman where it stayed on repeat for about six months, BLOWN AWAY does not do it justice up until then i was a dedicated Appitite for Destruction devotie and thought no other album would ever get close.

The mix of Melody and Heavyness was and still is perfection combined with Ginger's lyrics saw to it that these were going to be my band of choice little did i know for the next 15 years

[percy]

Like a few other people, I first heard them when they supported The Almighty in October '93.

I was into The Almighty in a huge way at the time, and had secured a spot in the front row at the Civic in Wolves. Kerbdog kind of passed me by really, but then there was this crazy mix of energy and riffs and I went mental to it. I was utterly fucked by the time The Almighty came on! lol

But yeah, I've been well and truly hooked ever since, and I don't see that changing any time soon!

Grrrrreeaaaaat Days!

Px

[Burnsyboy]

My dad one night said "you may like the end of this song" The song being I Wanna Go Where The People Go. A love affair was born!