| Too Much Junkie Business (aka The New Too Much Junkie Business) | |
| Type: | Compilation |
| Artist: | Johnny Thunders |
| Cover: | The New Too Much Junkie Business.jpg |
| Released: | March 7, 1983 |
| Recorded: | Late 1982 |
| Genre: | Punk rock |
| Length: | 43:25 |
| Label: | ROIR |
| Producer: | Jimmy Miller, Johnny Thunders |
| Prev Title: | D.T.K. - Live At The Speakeasy (Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers) |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Hurt Me |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
Too Much Junkie Business is a compilation of studio demos and live recordings, recorded in late 1982 by protopunk guitarist and singer Johnny Thunders. It is one of the original releases by Neil Cooper's then cassette-only label ROIR. It was reissued in 1999 on compact disc as The New Too Much Junkie Business.
The album is notable for being one of the few places to find studio versions of Thunders' live staples "In Cold Blood" and "Just Another Girl", but the album is dominated by live recordings of a typically sloppy and chaotic Thunders performance at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City. Thunders also interjects some studio-recorded interjections throughout the album, including one where he claims that the title track, another live staple, was co-written by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley along with its actual author, longtime Thunders co-conspirator Walter Lure.
Another Thunders composition, "Who Needs Girls?", is credited wholly to Booker T. & The MG's because of its resemblance to the veteran Memphis soul act's instrumental "Green Onions".
All tracks written by Johnny Thunders, except where noted.