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Sonic Reducerby Dead Boys
Sonic Reducer
Dead Boys
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- Oct 22, 2024
15:08 PMHappy Born Day Stiv Bators! --- Cheetah Chrome and David Thomas wrote this song and Stiv Bators rewrote the lyrics. Watch the Dead Boys perform live at CBGB's back in 1977. youtu.be -- Sampled by Beastie Boys for their song "An Open Letter to NYC."Larry Mizell, Jr. - Sep 5, 2024
14:28 PM"Sonic Reducer"..why, that's an excellent name for a radio show! -- Cheetah Chrome and David Thomas wrote this song and Stiv Bators rewrote the lyrics. Watch the Dead Boys perform live at CBGB's back in 1977. youtu.be -- Sampled by Beastie Boys for their song "An Open Letter to NYC." - Feb 16, 2024
17:13 PMThe song has been covered by many other rock bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Guns N' Roses and Die Toten Hosen, and sampled by The Beastie Boys and Yo La Tengo. It was even featured on Tony Hawks' skateboarding videogame, Tony Hawk's Undergroud 2. - genius.com - Mar 15, 2023
13:34 PMCheetah Chrome and David Thomas wrote this song and Stiv Bators rewrote the lyrics. -- In one celebrated incident, Bators hanged himself on stage and was pronounced dead for several minutes. Though he recovered from that incident, he was hit by a taxi in Paris and died from those injuries all too young in June 1990.: www.allmusic.com - Feb 12, 2022
21:00 PM - Feb 9, 2022
9:43 AMMorning gang- Please play Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys from their 1977 album Young Loud and Snotty. Many younger listeners will know it since Pearl Jam often plays it. Saw them at CBGBs which makes me-um-ancient… Wish I’d gotten up earlier. Blank generation one of my all time favorites. Tad - Sep 11, 2021
23:00 PMThe remaining members of the Dead Boys reunited in 2018 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Young, Loud, and Snotty by touring the U.S. with a stop at El Corazon in Seattle. www.facebook.com - Feb 6, 2021
22:23 PMThe remaining members of the Dead Boys reunited in 2018 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Young, Loud, and Snotty by touring the U.S. - Oct 22, 2019
2:02 AMStiv Bators (RIP) would have been celebrating his 70th birthday today. - Apr 19, 2019
1:35 AMJenn is on air with us celebrating 15 years of Sonic Reducer! - Apr 10, 2019
9:03 AMOn July 10th Dead Boys will be performing at the Funhouse at 8:30pm. - Oct 22, 2018
4:19 AMsinger Stiv Bators was born on this day in 1949 (died in 1990) - Oct 6, 2018
22:16 PMSong written by Cheetah Chrome and David Thomas during their tenure in Rocket from the Tombs - Jun 30, 2018
17:13 PMDead Boys are an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. The band was among the first wave of punk bands, and was known as one of the rowdiest and most violent punk groups of the era. - Feb 24, 2018
15:44 PMListen to Sonic Reducer on KEXP Saturdays 9-midnight! - Dec 16, 2017
16:17 PMKEXP's punk show (Sonic Reducer) is named after this song! - Apr 28, 2017
15:18 PMListen to KEXP's punk show (with the same name of this track) every Saturday night from 9pm-midnight. - Mar 18, 2017
15:40 PMThis is also the name of our punk show! Catch "Sonic Reducer" on Saturday nights from 9pm to midnight! - Nov 19, 2016
17:04 PMMoving to New York City at the encouragement of Joey Ramone (!), the Dead Boys quickly gained notoriety for their outrageous live performances. Lewd gestures and profanity were the norm. On more than one occasion, lead singer Stiv Bators slashed his stomach with his mic stand. Young, Loud and Snotty was their debut album, and this song is often regarded as one of the classics of the punk genre, with AllMusic calling it "one of punk's great anthems." Sonic Reducer is also KEXP's punk show that will be on the air later this evening from 9-midnight! Tune in for that one. - Aug 14, 2015
8:35 AMThis Allmusic biography describes Dead Boys as "sneering Cleveland punk brutes": www.allmusic.com - Apr 22, 2015
8:41 AM"Sonic Reducer" has been covered by Guns N' Roses, Overkill, Pearl Jam, Foetus, Dozer, Adult Crash, Rainy Day Saints, and Saves the Day. - Oct 22, 2014
16:09 PMDid you know all the original band members were from Cleveland, Ohio? - Aug 30, 2013
9:00 AMLearn much more about Dead Boys and its founder, Stiv Bators: www.stivbators.com