Despite being the first British punks to sign an album deal, for this eponymous 1977 debut, The Boys disappeared from the movement’s mythology, perhaps unsurprisingly.
Sick On You sounds so silly it could be a contemporaneous punk parody and maybe fundamentalists baulked at the band’s boogie woogie piano and boozy lecherousness.
But First Time is a memorable slice of punchy power pop that transcends its times, and Tenement Kids makes an impassioned case for rock’s currently reduced role in encouraging social mobility.
A second disc of rarities sweetens the package.
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