Label: Numero
Reissued 11/22/2024
Sleep off the rest of your summer with this comprehensive 36-song, four LP overview of Kansas City's midwest emo pioneers. From 1993-1997 Boys Life defined this anxious strain of heartworn power pop punk, issuing a pair of standard-bearing albums between endless circling of the U.S. DIY circuit. Collected here are their Departures and Landfalls and self-titled albums, singles, split 7"s and 10", live tracks, and rare demo tape, all annotated and illustrated inside a 24-page book.
Track listing:
LP 1 Boys Life LP
- Golf Hill Drive
- Tucked In
- A Quarters Worth
- Without Doubt
- Lister
- Breaker Breaker
- Cloudy And 47
- Temporary
- Clay Hill
LP 2 - Departures And Landfalls
- Fire Engine Red
- All Of The Negatives
- Twenty Four Of Twenty Five
- Radio Towers
- Sleeping Off Summer
- Calendar Year
- Friends For That
- Painted Smiles
LP 3 - Boys Life Demo
- Temporary
- Strike
- Cloudy+4
- Hiawatha
- Boxes
- Lister (Synergy Records)
- Without Doubt (Synergy Records)
- Signing Off (Kansas City Comp)
- Breaker Breaker (Secular Theme Split)
- Temporary (Vitreous Humor Split)
- Worn Thin (Giants Chair Split)
LP 4 - Christie Front Drive Split
- Sight Unseen
- Homecoming
- Two-Wheeled Train
- Sight Unseen Live (Crank Comp)
- Firm Handshake (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
- Fire Engine Red (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
- Sleeping Off Summer (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
- Radio Towers (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)