No Matter How Long The Line At The Cafeteria, There's Always A Seat

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Active for five years in the early 1980s, the Big Boys mixed furious hardcore with loose-limbed funk and tight pop structures, all the while penning lyrics that struck a blend between punk ideology, angsty alienation and clever humor. They were, in the memory of Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye, “Enormous men, decorated jump suits, a horn section, 200 friends onstage singing and dancing.” They were Big Boys by name and by nature – and they had a big effect on US punk culture. When the prevailin