Cowboys, The - 1980 - Teenage Life 7'' (US)
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The liners to Killed By Death #5 say "The obscurist 45 on Volume 5 is the Cowboys. All we can tell you is it's from 1980 and mentions Ohio on the sleeve." It's now pretty well known that vocalist Billy Lee Buckeye was actually Mark Eitzel, who reverted to using his real name for his second record a year later with the Naked Skinnies (an excellent single, but not punk rock) and went on to later fame with American Music Club and a solo career. It seems he's disowned this first record, as a reliable source told me Eitzel tossed all his copies of it in a dumpster a few years after its release. Perhaps that lack of stock copies is what makes it so "obscurist". "Teenage Life", the only punk song Eitzel ever recorded, is the KBD-comped track, and is the B-side to Supermarket, a slow-burn ska song which works mostly thanks to just enough snottiness in the vocals.
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by Justin Frohwirth at Terminal-Boredom (link)
2 comments:
Thank you Felipe. These are the best kinds of posts - the ones that you hear on a comp but rarely get to find the B-side. The SLUGS (Problem Child) is another example.
definitely... and great ideia for a future post in a while hehe thanks for the suggestion
cheers!
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