DEAD BOYS We Have Come For Your Children LP SIRE 1978 GERre ROCKET FROM THE TOMB
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DEAD BOYS
The Dead Boys were one of the first punk bands to escalate the level of violence, nihilism, and pure ugliness of punk rock to extreme new levels. Although considered part of New York's mid-'70s CBGB's scene, all of its bandmembers originally hailed from Cleveland, OH. The group's roots lay in the early-'70s Cleveland cult band Rocket from the Tombs, which included future Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome on guitar, and Johnny Blitz on drums, along with future Pere Ubu members David Thomas and Peter Laughner. The group's sound was a bit too comparable to art rock for Chrome and Blitz's tastes (whose influences included the Stooges, Alice Cooper, and the New York Dolls), and by 1975, Rocket from the Tombs had split up. Chrome and Blitz decided to enlist local singer Stiv Bators, second guitarist Jimmy Zero, and bassist Jeff Magnum, and formed a new group more akin to their musical tastes and dubbed Frankenstein. But the group only managed a handful of local shows before fading away. Noticing that there was an underground punk scene flourishing in New York City's Bowery, the group befriended one of the leading bands from that scene, the Ramones, who had come to Cleveland on a tour stop. At the insistence of Bators, Ramones frontman Joey Ramone helped arrange a tryout for the group at CBGB's, as the whole former Frankenstein band (sans Magnum), made the trek to New York. Not only did the group land a spot at CBGB's, they enlisted the club's owner (Hilly Kristal) as their manager, and signed a recording contract with Sire shortly thereafter. Changing their name to the Dead Boys (from a line in their song "Down in Flames"), the band caused an immediate splash in their newly adopted hometown, due to Bators' Iggy Pop-esque, audience-bating antics, and the group's vicious three-chord punk rock
"WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR CHILDREN"
<reissue, originally published in 1978>
Produced by Felix Pappalardi
LP SIRE RECORDS 926 054-1
MADE IN GERMANY EARLY/MID-80s REPRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: (scanned) 075992605410 (text) 0 75992 60541
LABEL: SIRE - YELLOW LABEL w/BLUE LOGO - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: LC3228
Other (French Distribution Code): France: WE 381
Other (Price code): ?
Catalog on cover: (spine) 926 054-1 (rear) 926 054-1?
Catalog on labels: 926 054-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): ? C-926054-1A CS-B-III DMM A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): ? C-926054-1B CS-B-III DMM A
On labels: 2-lines rim text reads "Alle........Prohibited"
GEMA/BIEM (boxed)
Produced by Felix Pappalardi
? 1978 Sire Records Company for the U.S. & WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S.
LC3228 (circled)
On Back Cover: Recorded and mixed at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida
Backing vocals on "Catholic Boy" by the Ramone Catholic Choir (Joey & Dee Dee)
? 1978 Sire Records Company for the U.S. & WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Manufactured in Germany • Pressé en Allemagne. TELDEC Record Service GmbH A Warner Communications Company
W (embossed, near bottom right corner)
LC3228 (circled, bottom right corner)
tracklisting
Side A: 3RD GENERATION NATION - I WON'T LOOK BACK
(I DON'T WANNA BE NO) CATHOLIC BOY - FLAME THROWER LOVE - SON OF SAM
Side B: TELL ME - BIG CITY - CALLING ON YOU - DEAD AND ALIVE - AIN'T IT FUN
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Coming off one of punk rock's early classic albums, 1977's raw and rough Young Loud & Snotty, you'd think the Dead Boys would have followed the same winning formula on their sophomore release. But as We Have Come for Your Children proves, the album didn't come close to matching the fury of their debut. The reasons for this fumble can be attributed to a few things, but chiefly, it was a poor producer choice (ex-Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi, who really had no business producing a punk band, and obviously wanted to tame the group). That said, Children isn't a complete atrocity, however -- much of the material is strong, and it would have benefited greatly from a grittier production (there was talk of having ex-Stooges guitarist James Williamson produce the album at the time, which would have probably improved the end result). Still, this is the Dead Boys album that contains one of their greatest all-time tracks, "Ain't It Fun," a "live fast, die young" tale that is quite eerie coming from now-deceased singer Stiv Bators (and was later covered by Guns N' Roses). Elsewhere, you can't help but wonder how much better such promising tracks as "(I Don't Wanna Be No) Catholic Boy" and "Flame Thrower Love" would have turned out in the hands of another producer. Since the Dead Boys' discography is short, fans should definitely try to hunt down a copy of We Have Come for Your Children...(AllMusic)
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