It's all curious, right? BOYS CRY WOLF are quintessential '80s pop - maybe a little off center like BOOK OF LOVE covering Zappa's "Valley Girl" or some shit. The heavy keys and soaring guitars seem like Top Gun soundtrack outtakes, then "Talking To Myself" sounds like a rom-com wedding party band trying to cover B-52's and it's clear that this recording was an effort to reach for something 'bigger' - whatever 'bigger' meant to BOYS CRY WOLF. No cover, scrounged from a box of dusty crap in a storage unit in Fresno full of shit from some dude who had a bunch of collectible Atari gear and ephemera from the early years of video games. There was another dude who wanted all of the Atari shit, I shelled out $50 for all of the tapes and a grip of ELVIS records, a battered player copy of MOUNTAIN's Nantucket Sleighride and the way under the radar Jesus Loves You Concert LP. I feel like it was a win. Do you need this? Definitely not, but it's all curious. And that's why we dig.
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