Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz

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Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
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Studio album by
Pretty Boy Floyd
ReleasedOctober 5, 1989
StudioKajem/Victory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre Glam metal [1] [2]
Label MCA
Producer Howard Benson
Pretty Boy Floyd chronology
Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
(1989)		 A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n' Roll
(1998)
Singles from Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
  1. "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire)"
    Released: 1989
  2. "I Wanna Be with You"
    Released: 1989
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Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz is the debut album by the American band Pretty Boy Floyd. [4] [5] It reached No. 130 on the United States Billboard chart in 1989. It was released on MCA Records and was produced by Howard Benson.

Contents

The band produced videos for the songs "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire)" and "I Wanna Be with You”.

Track listing

  1. Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz - 4:48
  2. Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire) - 3:13
  3. Wild Angels - 5:08
  4. 48 Hours - 2:59
  5. Toast of the Town* - 3:18
  6. Rock and Roll Outlaws - 2:33
  7. Only the Young - 3:51
  8. The Last Kiss - 2:39
  9. Your Mama Won't Know - 3:42
  10. I Wanna Be with You - 3:57

Original guitarist Aeriel Stiles wrote 8 of the 10 songs on Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz, with the exception of "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire)" (Majors/Summers) and the Mötley Crüe cover "Toast of the Town".

Bonus

The 2003 bonus re-issue featured some extra tracks, a couple of which had been recorded as part of Kristy Majors solo project.

  1. Slam Dunk
  2. She's My Baby
  3. Two Hearts
  4. Over the Edge
  5. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do ( Ramones cover)

Limited Edition

A very limited-release 2011 re-issue featured a cover of Department of Youth, by Alice Cooper, originally released on Welcome to my Nightmare in 1975.

Personnel

Pretty Boy Floyd

Additional musicians

Production

References

  1. ↑ "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules . Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  2. ↑ Beaujour, Tom; Bienstock, Richard; Eddy, Chuck; Fischer, Reed; Grow, Kory; Johnston, Maura; Weingarten, Christopher R. (August 31, 2019). "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  3. ↑ AllMusic review
  4. ↑ Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Voyageur Press. p. 178.
  5. ↑ Klosterman, Chuck (September 2002). "Paradise City". Spin. Vol. 18, no. 9. p. 78.
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