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Track List: Kaboom

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Disc 1:

  1. A Girl Like You
  2. Safety In Numbers
  3. Come Here And Do It
  4. Sellin' Out
  5. I Go Insane
  6. I Wanna See You Cry
  7. Stuck In the Ball Turret
  8. Dancin' All Night
  9. Very First Time
  10. Lonely Street
  11. If I Touch Her
  12. I'm an Explosive
  13. I Won't Go Back To Work
  14. Fortress Europe
  15. Tommy & Toni
  16. Dog Star
  17. UFO
  18. Summertime Come
  19. Come Clean
  20. Headhunter
  21. New Shoes
  22. When Love Turns Her Back
  23. Night Ride
  24. In My Head
  25. Cola Brain

Disc 2:

  1. Headhunter
  2. Sellin' Out
  3. I Want To See You Cry
  4. Dancin' All Night
  5. If I Touch Her
  6. A Girl Like You
  7. Don't Say It's Too Late
  8. Don't Stop
  9. Veggies
  10. Stop That Girl
  11. Safety In Numbers
  12. Very First Time
  13. Come Clean
  14. Stuck In the Ball Turret
  15. Cola Brain
  16. Fortress Europe
  17. Summertime Come
  18. Promise Of Love
  19. Steppin' Out
  20. I'm an Explosive
  21. I Won't Go Back To Work
  22. Summertime Come
  23. Better Time
  24. Show Me Shona

Album Details: Kaboom

Release Date:
04/10/2007
Label:
Steadyboy Records
UPC:
678572950421

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From AMG Reviews

While Austin, Texas has long been one of America's great cities for live music, it took a while for the new wave/punk rock phenomena to take root there in the Seventies, but one band that toughed it out in the early days before Texas hardcore put the Lone Star scene on the map was the Explosives. While the band's roots lay in melodic power pop, after a few months on the club circuit the Explosives' sound toughened up considerably, and along with developing a loyal fan following for their own music they gained a reputation as one of Roky Erickson's best backing bands (they're still playing with Roky to this day). While the Explosives released a handful of records, most through their own Black Hole Records, their music was hard to find outside of Texas, but the twodisc set KaBoom makes a healthy sampling of their catalog readily available on CD at last. The set opens with "A Girl Like You", a glorious slice of Britishinfluenced power pop, but while there's plenty more sweet stuff on board (especially the Sixtiesaccented "Lonely Street"), the band's strongest suit was angular almostpunk tunes like "Dog Star", "Fortress Europe", "I'm An Explosive" and "UFO", with guitarist Cam King, bassist Sonny Collie and drummer Freddie Steady Krc sounding impressively tight and wildly energetic, and if their attempts at hardedged topical lyrics haven't always dated well, the music is still a solid blast. Disc two features an eighteensong set the Explosives played at Austin's Continental Club on the last day of 1980 along with a few other rarities, and the band sounds just as revved up on stage as they do in the studio. KaBoom isn't quite the document of a "great lost band," but it does confirm the Explosives deserved better than simply being local heroes there's some fine, wiry rock and roll on this set that anyone who came of age in the era of skinny ties will groove to.

- Mark Deming, All Music Guide


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