The Strange Boys and Girls Club

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The Strange Boys and Girls Club
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 3, 2009 (2009-03-03) United States
March 2, 2009 (2009-03-02) UK
Recorded2007–2009
Genre Garage Rock, R&B
Length37:38
Label In the Red
The Strange Boys chronology
The Strange Boys and Girls Club
(2009)
Be Brave
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic (76/100) [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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NME (8/10) [3]
Pitchfork Media (7.1/10) [4]
Pop Matters (7/10) [5]
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The Strange Boys and Girls Club is the first album by the band The Strange Boys. It was released by In the Red Records on 2 March 2009 in the UK and a day later in the USA.

Contents

The album was initially recorded with labelmate Jay Reatard. However, the band was unhappy with the takes recorded in the sessions with Reatard and subsequently rerecorded the album with Orville Neeley. [7] [8] Ryan Sambol has said that this was because the recording sessions with Reatard took place at a time when the songs were still "new", and that he "hadn't really finished them". [8] Dusted magazine reported that the recordings with Neeley were made in a disused liquor store. [7] However, this was later denied by Sambol in an interview with Paste magazine. He clarified that this had been the case with an earlier release, recorded with Greg Ashley, not The Strange Boys and Girls Club, the recording of which took place in Neeley's garage. [8] [9]

The album was released to generally favourable reviews, attaining a score of 76% from the reviews collated by Metacritic.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ryan Sambol, except where noted.

  1. "Woe Is You and Me" - 2:13
  2. "They're Building the Death Camps" - 2:51
  3. "Should Have Shot Paul" 1 - 1:55
  4. "MLKs" 2 - 1:49
  5. "This Girl Taught Me a Dance" - 3:06
  6. "For Lack of a Better Face" - 3:15
  7. "Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up" - 2:09
  8. "No Way for a Slave to Behave" - 3:11 (Ryan Sambol, Shane Renfro)
  9. "Poem Party" - 1:53
  10. "To Turn a Tune or Two" - 2:25
  11. "Most Things" - 1:36
  12. "A Man You've Never Known" - 2:00
  13. "Then" - 2:11
  14. "Who Needs Who More" - 2:18
  15. "Probation Blues" - 2:14
  16. "Death and All the Rest" - 2:39 (Ryan Sambol, Shane Renfro)

Footnotes to track listing

Personnel

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References

  1. Critic Reviews for The Strange Boys and Girls Club. Metacritic. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. Mark Deming, "The Strange Boys And Girls Club", Allmusic, no date
  3. Lisa Wright, "Album Review: The Strange Boys", NME, 4 April 2009
  4. Stuart Berman, "The Strange Boys: The Strange Boys and Girls Club", Pitchfork Media, 31 July 2009
  5. Ron Hart, "The Strange Boys: The Strange Boys and Girls Club", Pop Matters, 26 August 2009
  6. www.tinymixtapes.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090406004310/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/The-Strange-Boys. Archived from the original on April 6, 2009.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 1 2 Nate Knaebel, "Destined: The Strange Boys", Dusted, undated
  8. 1 2 3 Austin Powell, "The Young and the Restless", Austin Chronicle, 1 August 2008
  9. 1 2 Austin L. Ray, "Getting to Know... The Strange Boys", Paste, 13 May 2009