Young Loud and Snotty

by Dead Boys

Overview

Fellow Cleveland types Pere Ubu may have won the artistic kudos for their adventurous, surprising work, but if the goal was just to rock and rock again, the Dead Boys had them totally trumped. As both title phrase and capsule description, Young, Loud & Snotty accurately defines the predominating aesthetic so well that one could just leave it at that, but there's a lot more going on here than on the face of it. With perhaps surprising great production from demi-famous '70s rocket Genya Ravan, the five-some found something sonically smack in-between the US garage/punk heritage of the past and the more modern thrashings from overseas. Bators sneers, gobs, gasps, and whines with the best of them, but he knows his rock history, as does his bandmates. Zero and Chrome aren't guitar virtuosos, but they do know what makes a song great and aren't afraid to concentrate on that, while the Magnum/Blitz rhythm section keeps things moving as it does. In some ways songs like "All This and More" and "I Need Lunch" simply emerge from an alternate '50s, with admittedly much more feedback and stereo sound. Stone cold rock classic "Sonic Reducer" starts things off -- amusingly -- with all sorts of phased drums and other fripperies that later generations wouldn't consider punk at all. That said, it's still blunt, brilliantly sung by Bators and kicks out the jams with messy energy. Other all-time greats include the perfect bored-and-needing-kicks anthem "Ain't Nothin' to Do" and the thoroughly wrong "Caught With the Meat In Your Mouth." There's even a rock oldie -- a cover of "Hey Little Girl" live onstage at spiritual home CBGB's. And why not? With great punk rock and great rock, Young, Loud and Snotty still packs a punch. ~ Ned Raggett

Product Details

Release Date:	03/31/2023
Label:	Jackpot Records
UPC:	0843563142363
Rank:	28094

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dead Boys   Primary Artist
Bob Clearmountain   Bass
Johnny Blitz   Drums
Stiv Bators   Vocals
Cheetah Chrome   Guitar
Jimmy Zero   Guitar,Guitar (Rhythm)
Jeff Magnum   Bass
Michael "Happy the Man" Sticca   Handclapping

Technical Credits

Robert Gonzales   Composer
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Genya Ravan   Producer
Don Baskin   Composer
David Thomas   Composer
Johnny Blitz   Composer
Dave Wittman   Engineer
Stiv Bators   Composer
Cheetah Chrome   Composer
Jimmy Zero   Composer
Jeff Magnum   Composer
Harvey Goldberg   Mixing
Jim Galante   Assistant Engineer
John Gillespie   Design,Art Direction
Glenn Brown   Photography