CLEVELAND ROCKS!!!: Proto-Punk and Art Rock In the Land of Drew Carey - Part VI
Dead Boys: Young, Loud, and Snotty
Alright, I've done Rocket from the Tombs. I've done Pere Ubu, a band that came from the ashes of RftT. So, I guess I'd better do the
other band that formed after RftT imploded...
Yawn. Now listening to Generic Punk Rock Album No. 2746. I dig punk as much as the next angry twenty something, but I do like my punk to actually sound good. The Dead Boys do not. They sound like everything that was boring about Rocket from the Tombs, just with a shi
ttier singer. If they wanted to do what they were doing without the artiness of Thomas and Laughner, then they could have at least upped then ante and not just stuck their thumbs up their asses and whistled a jaunty but boring tune. This album is masterful at taking second rate songs and doing absolutely nothing at all with them. I am almost done with it and not a single song has stuck out to me as worthy of note. Even their version of "Sonic Reducer" can't touch the Tombs version. Good job dropping the Dead (huhuhuh) weight Ubu.