Dead BoysDead BoysDate: 1977
Label: Sire (Dist. by GRT)
Number: 8147-6038
Programs
1. Sonic Reducer/Not Anymore
2. All This and More/What Love Is/Ain't Nothing To Do
3. Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth/Hey Little Girl/Down in Flames
4. I Need Lunch/High Tension Wire
Notes and scan of cart by Ed Stone CarbonaNG@aol.com
The Dead Boys moved to New York City in 1977 from Cleveland, Ohio shortly after the punk rock explosion started in New York. Shorty thereafter the Dead Boys signed a record contract with Sire Records promising 2 studio albums and 1 live album. Largely influenced by groups such as Iggy Pop and the Stooges and Detroit's' MC5 the Dead Boys released their debut "Young Loud and Snotty" in May, 1977. A very raw, powerful, and obnoxious debut.
After the release of their second album -- "We Have Come For Your Children" -- Sire Records dropped the Dead Boys and both of their albums immediately went out of print. In 1977-1978 sales from both of their albums combined barely sold a thousand copies, since Sire did little to promote the band. So finding the original release of this album on vinyl is hard enough. But a small number of 8-Tracks of the first album were made and are very rare and a good find.
Stiv Bators died in 1990 in Paris, France after being run over by an automobile.
None of the surviving members of the Dead Boys have ever received any royalties from their record sales from their Sire albums.
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