Hurt Me (album) explained

Hurt Me
Type:	Album
Artist:	Johnny Thunders
Cover:	Hurt_Me_Johnny_Thunders.jpg
Released:	1984
Recorded:	October–November 1983
Studio:	Studios WW, Paris, France
Genre:	Rock & roll
Label:	New Rose Records
Producer:	Johnny Thunders, Christopher Giercke
Prev Title:	In Cold Blood
Prev Year:	1983
Next Title:	Que Sera Sera
Next Year:	1985

Hurt Me is an album by the American musician Johnny Thunders, released in 1984.^{[1] [2]} It was recorded in Paris, with just an acoustic guitar.^[3] Richard Hell wrote the lyrics to the title track.^[4]

Critical reception

The Omaha World-Herald wrote: "Instead of rocking out, he sounds haunting and barely hopeful. Perhaps he intended to make such an intensely personal album. Or maybe he just didn't want to pay a band."^[5]

Track listing

Side A

All tracks composed by Johnny Thunders; except where indicated

1. "Sad Vacation"
2. "Eve of Destruction" (P.F. Sloan)
3. "Too Much Too Soon" (Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain)
4. "Joey Joey" (Bob Dylan)
5. "I'm a Boy I'm a Girl"
6. "Go Back to Go" (Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain)
7. "I Like to Play Games"
8. "Hurt Me" (Thunders, Richard Hell)
9. "Illegitimate Son of Segovia"
10. "It Ain't Me Babe" (Bob Dylan)

Side B

1. "Diary of a Lover"
2. "I'd Rather Be With the Boys (Than Girls Like You)" (Keith Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham)
3. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory"
4. "She's So Untouchable"
5. "Ask Me No Questions"
6. "She's So Strange"
7. "Lonely Planet Boy" (David Johansen)
8. "M.I.A."
9. "Cosa Nostra"

Personnel

• Johnny Thunders - guitar, vocals
• Charlotte - backing vocals on "I'd Rather Be With the Boys"

Technical

• Patrick Woindrich - engineer
• Kathy Findlay - cover photography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Johnny Thunders Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine . AllMusic . 20 June 2023.
2. Web site: Johnny Thunders . Trouser Press . 20 June 2023.
3. Web site: Johnny Thunders Hurt Me . Ox-Fanzine . 20 June 2023.
4. Hell . Richard . Sweet Excess . Spin . Dec 1986 . 2 . 9 . 22.
5. News: Catlin . Roger . Johnny Thunders hasn't exactly been prolific... . Omaha World-Herald . February 7, 1984.