| Category: Punk |  BadTown
BoysAnother Fine Day NRA80CD $12 List Price UCP 7-20308-0080-2-6
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| Background | The Badtown is Los
Angeles not Stuttgart!!! That surprises some who might think this veteran band is from
Germany. That’s certainly where they are best know. Previously signed to the German
label Gift Of Life they are not strangers to New Red Archives as we were the USA
distributors for that label. Formed in the late 1980’s after a couple of collectable
singles, Badtown Boys released a string of solid albums starting with the self titled
debut in 1990. The album was produced by Brett Gurewitz of Bad religion - did that guy
ever sleep back then? Their sound was very like the Ramones, but faster, or like the
Dickies without the goof. Led by singer Greg Keith and guitarist Tommy Komisar BB also
featured Greg’s brother Chris Keith on Bass. Gift Of Life took them over to Germany
for the first in many tours. The follow-up to “Badtown Boys” was “Date With
Death” (1991) followed by “Penniless In Paradise” EP (1993) which was the
first CD to feature Drummer (and Singer from Dead Lazlo’s Place) Gizz Navarro - As
the Homeless guy asleep on the cover. After “Penniless”, The released
“Epidemic” (1995) again on Gift Of Life, but this time marketed by Cargo in the
USA. It seemed that would be the summit of their career, but now with the re-vitalized
line up featuring Stephan X on vocals and Gizz Navarro on drums, they release
“Another Fine Day” The key to the continued power of the Badtown Boys is Tommy
Komiser is still writing the riffs.
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| About This Release | This has 130% of the
energy of the old albums but still topped with a pop melody. Some of the tracks are the
smoothest pop songs the band have ever come up with, but the backing is a hardcore
onslaught. Stephan X's vocals are not dissimilar to the former singer Greg Keith's
although Greg had a very distinctive tone, but Stephen's voice is richer and now the band
backing vocals are more lush and full.
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| Key Selling Points |
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| Tracks | 01. Faces of
Desperation 02. Please Stay with Me 03. Take Me Back 04. Always Fighting 05. Jenna 06. Get Ahead 07. D.D.F. 08. Punx 09. Insubordinate 10. I Will Succeed 11. Don't Give Up On Me 12. BadTown U.S.A. 13. I Can't Change the World
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