(abbreviation of Like a Motherfucker) is the only studio album by the American punk rock band the Heartbreakers, which included Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure and Billy Rath.

In a 1977 interview in the UK monthly magazine ZigZag, Thunders said the album title originated from New York gang graffiti.

In the autumn of 1976, Malcolm McLaren, who had informally managed the New York Dolls in their waning days, invited the band to come to England and participate in the Sex Pistols' Anarchy tour, along with The Clash and The Damned, who were replaced by Buzzcocks shortly after the tour commenced.

The band accepted the offer, arriving in London on December 1, the same day that the Pistols swore at Bill Grundy on live, prime-time television, which precipitated the cancellation of most of the tour.

During a break in the recording, the Who's Pete Townshend invited the Heartbreakers to appear as extras in the movie version of Quadrophenia.

The band was later alleged to have used taxicabs to commute between London and Birmingham, billed to Track Records, to replenish their drug supply.

sessions, including thirty-five reels full of various mixes, from the Track Records offices, due in part to the contract provision the band signed early in 1977.

In 1982, the rights to The Heartbreakers' tapes were acquired from Childers, acting on behalf of the band partnership, by Jungle Records, an independent English label.

A rare cassette edition, released by Track at the same time, was said to "[sound] as if it had a shower, shave, coffee and a cigarette" (liner notes of 2002 reissue by Nina Antonia, p. 10).

Eight years later, a remastered edition, appended with an MPEG video of "Chinese Rocks", was released.

Disc One's track listing replicates the Lost '77 Mixes track listing, including "Can't Keep My Eyes Off You" and "Do You Love Me", however using the mixes from Danny Secunda's copy of the original master tape rather than the outtake remixes used on the 1994 CD.