Wreck Collection [Original recording remastered]

Big Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Gern Blandsten
• ASIN: B00006JCHG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,344 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Live Intro

2. Mutant Rock

3. Pil Beach

4. Shut Up

5. Manipulation

6. Rules

7. Funk Off

8. Damage 43

9. Distance

10. Horn Intro

11. We Got Soul

12. Frat Cars

13. History

14. Influence

15. Authority

16. GM

17. Red/Green

18. Sound On Sound

19. Baby Let's Play God

20. 'We're The Band...'

See all 34 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Skinny And Fat Elvis Get Wrecked On This Collection, May 17, 2011

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Tony (London, U.K.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wreck Collection (Audio CD)

This is a collection of The Big Boys music on 1 disc, the band hailed from Austin, Texas alongside MDC and The Dicks. Music wise they mixed fat funky bass chords with punk, a less jazzier take on The Minutemen. A massive influence on some band who supported them at their gigs called The Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

While the latter became international superstars on the back of this funk punk brew The Big Boys (without much commercial success) nearly became a forgotten entity until much later they gained a massive interest from old and later fans alike way after they disbanded in 1984.

This 34 track CD consists of remastered demos, live bits and outtakes on some of their songs, overall the sound is coherent and the vocals go from normal to punk but not aggressive or snotty.

If you are after everything they recorded get the 2 CD's Skinny Elvis (earlier work) or Fat Elvis (later work) or if your like me and you want a comprehensive compilation on 1 CD then I recommend this.

On a last note there is a hidden track a minute and a bit after "Start A Band", "Horn Intro" and "We Got Soul" are the only 2 tracks to feature a horn section, the latter is a very early style of Kool And The Gang

Get this to have a Funky Punky Party

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars where's those zorlac band decks when you need them?, November 6, 2005

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Erik Martinec "pinche Cien" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wreck Collection (Audio CD)

It's one of my great regrets that I grew up about 5 years too late to see the Big Boys live; at least I got to see Tim Kerr do the same show night after night year after year with Bad Mutha Goose (don't get me wrong; they still kicked ass every time).
It's spare, it's tight, it's severely chronotope....
The Frat Cars change; they've exchanged izods for white caps and LeBarons for Rav4s, but the Big Boys still rip on them from beyond the grave. And Biscuit still does the best "Hollywood Swingin'" since, well, uh,...Newport and the Guys?