To Hell with the Boys
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November 27, 1979 |
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| Label (s) | Safari Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
39 min 30 s |
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Bjorn Nessjoe |
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To Hell with the Boys is the third studio album by British punk band The Boys . It was released on November 27, 1979 on Safari Records.
History of origin
As early as the summer of 1978, The Boys recorded 15 songs for their third album, which at the time was still to be called Junk . NEMS, their record company at the time, refused to cover the studio costs and so the master tapes remained in the possession of the Rockfield recording studio. The monitor mixes of this somewhat harder version were retained by Matt Dangerfield and later published on Odds & Sods (1990) and Punk Rock Rarities (1999), as well as various bootlegs .
The band tried to separate from NEMS, but the separation turned out to be more difficult than expected. At the insistence of the band members, The Boys were released from their contract in 1979. In the meantime the band members devoted themselves to various other projects. Dangerfield and Casino Steel recorded an album called Christina X with a Scandinavian porn actress . Honest John Plain also joined The Lurkers for a short time .
Safari Records finally signed the band and had them record the album in Hell, a small village near Trondheim , Norway . It was published on November 27, 1979; the first 5,000 copies came with a 16-page booklet . Kamikaze ( B-side : Bad Days ) was released as a single a week before the album was released. The single reached # 9 on the independent charts in Great Britain. The album itself reached # 4 on the charts. On January 8, 1980, the band on the show came The Old Gray Whistle Test the BBC on to promote the album. They then accompanied the Ramones on their England tour.
Terminal Love (B-side: I Love Me ) was released as the second single on February 7th. A month appeared another single, which was not included on the album: the Rolling Stones - cover You Better Move On with the B-side School Days . Then keyboardist Casino Steel left, who moved back to Norway and had success there with Gary Holton (ex- Heavy Metal Kids ). A tour of France and an appearance in the music store without steel followed.
Reception and style of music
The power pop of the Boys was further melodic and pushed the punk elements that are still on the previous alternative chart busters stood out clearly. The album was highly praised by the British magazine Sounds :
" That return is promising. A marriage of the Ramones, the Heartbreakers and Racey is the most accurant description of the new Boy-Sound .... "Hell" is a non-serious good good time LP about girls and drugs and motorbikes, and all the things that tradition expected bands do write about. "
Track list
- Saber Dance - 2:01
- Rue Morgue - 3:40
- Terminal Love - 3:31
- See Ya Later - 3:14
- You Can't Hurt a Memory - 7:32
- Kamikaze - 3:55
- Lonely Cowboy - 3:32
- Waiting for the Lady - 3:31
- Bad Day - 2:46
- Independent Girl - 5:35
Versions
There are numerous bootleg releases with the original mix of the album. Captain Oi! Records released a version with 5 bonus tracks in 1999.
- I Love Me - 3:37
- You Better Move On - 3:34
- Schoolgirls - 2:27
- Rub a Dum Dum (The Yobs) - 3:03
- Another Christmas (The Yobs) - 2:03
Song info
The album's opener, Saber Dance, is a quick recording of a dance piece from the Ballet Gayane by Aram Khachaturian .
Rue Morgue is about the protagonist's attempts to approach a French woman. However, since the protagonist had taken technical drawing instead of French , he doesn't understand what she means. The text contains some French idioms and puns. So the girl is asked what her name is and she answers with “allez-vous-en”, whereupon the protagonist addresses her with “Alli”. The title of the song is a reference to The Double Murder on Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe .
In Terminal Love was the chorus of Bob Dylan's Knockin 'on Heaven's Door incorporated.
You Can't Hurt a Memory's vocals have been critically compared to John Lennon's voice.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Brennan: Liner Notes of the To Hell with the Boys publication on Captain Oi! Records , 1999
- ↑ quoted from the insert from the German original press on EMI Electrola
- ↑ The album in the All Music Guide