Young Dumb And Snotty - Mad Sin

Advantages: Fantastic insight into early Punk ala Stooges and New York Dolls
Disadvantages: A few weak tracks

...Dead Boys were a punk/pre punk band that formed in 1975 in Cleveland Ohio, developing out of the band 'Rocket From The Tombs'. They are made up of; Stiv Bator (Vocals) who was once told by Iggy Pop that he was the second best singer in rock & roll (after Jim Morrison), Johnny Blitz (Drums), Cheetah Chrome (Guitar), Jeff Magnum (Bass), Jimmy Zero (Guitar). In 1976 they moved to New York, and quickly gained s notorious reputation for their outrageous live performances, with profanity being the norm, and on more then one occasion, lead singer Stiv Bators slashed his stomach with his mic stand. They regularly played at the legendary rock club CBGB's and in 1977 they released their debut album, 'Young, Loud and Snotty'. Their song "Sonic Reducer" is frequently regarded as one of the classics of the punk genre; often hailed as one of its... Read review

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Advantages: raw, fast and catchy
Disadvantages: a couple of songs that go missing

...Young, Loud and Snotty is definitely a recommended purchase, a classic punk or pre-punk rock album that defines the CBGB period. The Dead Boys from Cleveland, Ohio evolved from The Rocket from The Tombs and were originally called Frankenstein, after re-locating to New York they set out on their road to the rock n roll hall of fame. This album is fast, raw, loud, sloppy and wild. I think it has aged less than any other older punk album and still sounds quite up to date. The lively Stiv Bators leads the band like very few other lead singers and his fearlessness and crazy antics lead to himself hanging himself on stage and being pronounced clinically dead for several minutes several years later with The Lords of the New Church. He did however survive this incident. Great hits of the album for me are the world reknown "Sonic Reducer... Read review

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Advantages: stirring lyrics, wonderful music, operatic rock anthem
Disadvantages: too many ballads, sounds more like a compilation

...Back in the late seventies, a young stayleyvegas was out with his friends during the long, hot, school holidays. One day, one of his friends turned up with his new birthday present. This was the must have item of the times and stayleyvegas and the unfortunate others were green with envy as the present was shown off to the group by a beaming mate. It was a ghetto blaster! We had only heard about these and it was huge!! It was full of switches and knobs and huge speakers and "Wow, it's got a graphic equalizer on" even though to this day I am not sure any of us know what the graphic equalizer actually did. But boy did it look good. "Listen to this" my friend said. "You are not going to believe the sound". Little did I know he meant the cassette he had in it and not the quality of the unit. So we all crowded closer and the fortunate... Read review

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