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The Db's - Ride The Wild TomTom

Track listing:
  1. We Should Be In Bed 3:00
  2. Everytime Anytime 3:19
  3. Let's Live For Today 3:35
  4. Little Hands 3:25
  5. You Got It Wrong 3:01
  6. Tell Me Two Times 2:11
  7. Nothing Is Wrong 4:06
  8. Purple Hose 2:46
  9. Ash 2:55
  10. I Read New York Rocker 0:47
  11. Walking The Ceiling (It's Good To Be Alive) 4:19
  12. Baby Talk 1:45
  13. Dynamite (Original Demo) 2:40
  14. Soul Kiss (Part One) 2:19
  15. Bad Reputation 3:21
  16. Modern Boys & Girls 2:47
  17. What About That Cat 2:59
  18. What's The Matter With Me? 2:50
  19. The Fight 3:11
  20. She's Green I'm Blue 1:49
  21. If And When 2:44
  22. Soul Kiss (Part Two) 1:13
  23. The Death Of Rock 3:00
  24. Purple Hose (Slight Return) 0:49
  25. Hardcore Judy 1:26
  26. A Spy In The House Of Love 2:33

Notes

Rhino R2 71299

1978-1982

In his liner essay for Ride the Wild TomTom, former dB's member Peter Holsapple jokingly describes this collection as "the equivalent of our Basement Tapes," and that statement actually describes the contents fairly well, especially when one remembers that Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes were mostly recorded as a goof. A collection of rehearsal tapes, demos, early single sides, and inside jokes, Ride the Wild Tom-Tom is hardly a definitive portrait of The dB's, but anyone looking for a ragged-but-right look at the band's formative days during Chris Stamey's tenure with the band will eat it up. Along with early versions of "Soul Kiss," "Modern Boys and Girls," and "A Spy in the House of Love," Ride the Wild Tom-Tom features a highly individual cover of The Grassroots' "Let's Live for Today," a commercial jingle for the East Coast music magazine New York Rocker (the band was using their offices as a rehearsal space), and the mock-punk onslaught "Hardcore Judy." Committed dB's fans will find this to be hoot, and while it's hardly the best introduction to the band's music, the quality of Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple's songwriting shines through on even the jokiest numbers.