BIG BOYS Lullabies Help The Brain Grow (LP) (Ed. of 100 on180 gram gold vinyl)
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Big Boys
Lullabies Help The Brain Grow
Format: LP
Record Label: Modern Classics Recordings/Light In The Attic
Condition: New (sealed)
* High quality reissue from 2014 of their great album from 1983 - this is the "shop edition" of 100 hand numbered copies on 180 gram gold wax - this copy is #29. It's packaged in a heavy gatefold jacket and includes a Big Boys sticker.
* Originally released on the Wasted Talent label and reissued last year by Modern Classics Recordings, 1981’s debut album Where’s My Towel was inspired by the group’s growing dissatisfaction with their part in the release of Live At Raul’s. Returning with Lullabies Help The Brain Grow two years later, they were still striking out at situations around them. The opening track, “We Got Your Money” is a sort of rally cry to the misunderstandings of their scene , and to the fraternity boys and girls that came to gawk or cause trouble: “And to all you frat boys/We got your money in our hands!” they shouted, gleefully. Song titles include “We’re Not In It To Lose”, “Fight Back” and “Assault” proved that the gloves were off. They’ve long done things differently in Austin, Texas, and the take on hardcore pioneered by one of the city’s sons, the Big Boys for five years in the early 1980s was no exception. Where peers Scratch Acid, The Dicks and MDC pursued hardcore or art-punk angularity, Big Boys were mixing furious hardcore with loose-limbed funk and tight pop, all the while penning lyrics that struck a blend between punk ideology, angsty alienation and goofy humor. It was delivered via 7”s, EPs a split LP, compilations, three studio albums, and the live DIY shows that were audience participation-fueled free-for-alls. The idea was for fans to leave feeling like they were part of the band. They’ve long done things differently in Austin, Texas, and the take on hardcore pioneered by one of the city’s sons, the Big Boys for five years in the early 1980s was no exception. The idea was for fans to leave feeling like they were part of the band. Produced by Spot, legendary in-house producer at SST Records, Lullabies is an album that caught the band in ever-turbulent mode, switching drummers through the recording from Fred Schultz to Rey Washam – the fourth person to occupy the stool for vocalist Randy “Biscuit” Turner, guitarist Tim Kerr and bassist Chris Gates. The album found the band testing the boundaries of their wide-ranging sound, with double-quick thrashers like “Lesson” and double-funky jams like “Funk Off” (helped along by the brass of the Fun Fun Fun 12" horn section). Kerr took lead vocals on two tracks, and on “Sound On Sound” they combine his languid delivery and pendulum bass in a way that must have pricked the ears of a young Steven Malkmus. With features in the earliest issues of Thrasher Magazine and coveted spots on their influential Skate Rock tape comps, Big Boys were the first band to be labeled “skate rock”, the nascent version of the world-conquering skate punk of the late 1980s and 1990s. Now, Light In The Attic’s Modern Classics Recordings imprint is bringing their pioneering music to a new audience. Following the 2013 re-release of Where’s My Towel / Industry Standard, 2014 sees reissues of both Lullabies Help The Brain Grow and the following year’s, No Matter How Long The Line Is At The Cafeteria, There’s Always A Seat, which brought the band’s story to a close.
* Track Listing: We Got Your Money / Lesson / Funk Off / I'm Sorry / We're Not In It To Lose / Sound On Sound / Fight Back / Brickwall / Jump The Fence / Assault / Manipulation / Same Old Blues / Gator F***** / White N***** / Baby Let's Play God
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