I know Mr. Erdman wrote about the impending reissue of this Big Boys LP a couple weeks ago, but the record, Where's My Towel/Industry Standard, is officially re-released today. FUCK YEAH, Light In The Attic!! GREAT JOB!!! Christ, I can't remember the last time I saw a copy of this for sale.

1981 was a great year for the American underground. The hardcore formula had just been distilled and punk was still an outlaw with no rules; everything was on the table and the Big Boys were there, angry and knowing, considered and clever. Their songs were smart, not just short fast and loud. As I remember it, this record played part of the lexicon of what came after; where it landed it counted. Now I ain't sayin' it was "ahead" of anything; I hate when records are described as somehow ahead of their time, 'cause all records are made in a SPECIFIC time under the then contemporary circumstances. DUH! Also, it sucks how history is simplified, so now the Big Boys are remembered as "skate rock." I dunno who invented the term, but I've ALWAYS hated it. I know it was a "thing," I was there, but I always thought that term was silly. No one needed goddamn Thrasher to tell them what to listen to!! C'mon, a track like "Complete Control" from Where's My Towel/Industry Standard, did NOT fit into "skate" cliché. The kids then would'a called it "college rock."

Anyway, so this is a fucking great reissue. The LP comes as a gatefold with a stack of inserts and is pressed on one of four different colors. FANCY! It's on cassette too, if you dare. And LITA backed the hard copy with cool internet action like a Tim Kerr interview via the Light In The Attic blog AND a fantastic LITA-produced Big Boys documentary (also included in Mr. Erdman's earlier post, BTW). HELL FUCKING YES, y'all!