Boys

This was a Bside from the Bela Lugosi's Dead maxi-single thing, on wax with Dark Entries also. True Artist came through with it, and a bunch of other records, one rainy weekend in 1985. I didn't have any concept of goth back then, and I don't think the band did either. They were considered 'art', postpunk, or indie music to the people I knew, although the term Gothic (in reference to music and fashion)was already being used.

All I know is when you're 13, mostly into pop-rap, and whatever weirdness you've dug up on your own - a record like this has the ill effect. At the time I perceived it as some kind of white punk rap, which it is in a way. Later I found out they were most likely skewering the wobbly Punk scene of 1979, with references to everybody from Siouxsie Sioux to the Clash. Fangsta.

This was the Aside, and there is not enough to say. Recorded in one take, as the legend goes, a bugged out marriage of Lee Perry and the Stooges;the birth of a genre now mutated into new forms, and a top 10 Halloween tune, if ever such a list were made. Undead,undead,indeed.