Welcome to the 3rd Annual "BOINGO-TOBER"
For the next 17 days it's a virtual time machine
as we boingo around the years, glad to have you
aboard, hope you dig it...The Horror!!
If you look in the center of his chest just to the left,
you'll see the cat from the EP's cover.
I decided to start with 1981 cause this was the year when
my love of the band really sky-rocketed. It's also the year
I saw them the most times at The Whisky and the year
I was 19, need I say more?
1981 is also the year us Boingo fans that had already been around a couple years got our first official album on A&M. At the time it came out a lot of Boingo fans had mixed reactions to the album especially the song selection. There were a few staple songs like Cinderella Undercover and Teenaged Monster that we really expected to see on there but were replaced by the very new tunes like Perfect System and Capitalism. My biggest and only complaint ever about this album was the production. It was cutting-edge at the time but way too polished and artificial sounding. IRS Records would land up doing the same thing and even worse to the first FEAR album which also hit around that time.
Nonetheless, Only A Lad deserves to be considered the new-wave classic it now is and a must-have starting point for fans new and old.
ONLY A LAD (DEMOS & OUTTAKES)
several versions of this bootleg float around out there, this is the 11-song version, list below Megalink
1981 is also the year the band was featured in an obscure film called Long Shot playing an even more obscure tune "I Have To Be Entertained" - The same year I saw them perform this song for the first time at the Whisky and was SO hoping it would be on Only A Lad. The scene from the movie is below and here is a 7daylink of the demo version, slightly different and tinny but the only recording out there.
And then in the world of bootlegs, there's the "DREADED ROXY SHOW" as I like to call it full of frustration for the avid fan with tinny unbalanced soundboard cassette, hissy AND with several songs cut. The most frustrating part being you know this was a kill show. Anyways if you care to navigate the murky waters of Roxy 1981. here's a 7daylink for ya and the set list.
And rounding off the first post is a "first-day" mix of 10 Tommy
favorites thru the years, dig it.
Samples above - link to mix - link to 21 Boingo albums on Amazon. Blackjack.
The Sheer Horror!!
