The Boys (Deluxe Edition)

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1.	Sick On You 01:53	buy track
2.	I Call Your Name 02:12	buy track
3.	Tumble 01:57	buy track
4.	Tonight 01:28	buy track
5.	I Don't Care 02:12	buy track
6.	Soda Pressing 02:34	buy track
7.	No Money 01:49	buy track
8.	First Time 02:22	buy track
9.	Box Number 02:36	buy track
10.	Kiss Like A Nun 02:06	buy track
11.	Cop Cars 02:03	buy track
12.	Keep Running 01:47	buy track
13.	Tenement Kids 01:36	buy track
14.	Living In The City 02:19	buy track
15.	Tumble With Me (Early Demo) 02:56	buy track
16.	It Only Hurts When I Cry (Early Demo) 03:41	buy track
17.	I Don't Care (1st Single Version) 02:34	buy track
18.	Soda Pressing (1st Single B-Side Version) 02:48	buy track
19.	First Time (Long Version) 02:58	buy track
20.	Watcha Gonna Do (Bonus Track) 01:58	buy track
21.	Turning Grey (B-Side) 02:17	buy track
22.	Run Rudolph Run (The Yobs) 02:29	buy track
23.	Worm Song (The Yobs) 01:11	buy track

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released March 31, 2015

Arguably one of the best punk albums of the 70s, The Boys self-titled debut (produced by Dangerfield & Steel) is a cult UK classic. The album is filled with the pop punk gems, the kind of immediate salvos that would elevate Buzzcocks into the charts. In the intervening years, the history of punk rock has been written and re-written and a whole heap of bands have been sidelined. The Boys’ debut album, re-mastered here still sounds as fresh and immediate as it did back then and it also includes two classic punk rock singles in ‘I Don’t Care’ and ‘First Time’ (the latter, along with The Undertones "Teenage Kicks", the ultimate punk anthem of teenage romance and adolescent angst).

Along with the Sex Pistols, Clash and the Damned, The Boys were part of the first wave of the mid-1970’s UK punk explosion. Armed with an arsenal of killer Steel/Dangerfield songs The Boys became the first UK punk band to sign an album deal in January 1977 and subsequently released two albums, their self-titled debut and the follow-up “Alternative Chartbusters” in quick succession.

Highly regarded by the music press and their contemporaries, yet somehow criminally ignored by a wider punk audience, unable to grasp their heritage of vintage rock ‘n’ roll that went back to Chuck Berry courtesy of The Beatles. Their well-crafted songs, together with Steel and Dangerfield’s layered harmonies, even led to them being described as ‘The Beatles of Punk’.

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