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Mama's Boys Runaway Dreams 1980-1992

Format:
5CD
Style:
Heavy Metal
Release:
26.01.2024
Art-Nr.:
CD25927
Label:
HNE
Price no VAT, plus Shipping 37.81 €

Tracklist

01
I'm Leaving Town
02
Down And Out
03
Belfast City Blues
04
Highland Rock
05
Record Machine
06
Rock 'n' Roll Craze
07
Summertime
08
Big Bad City
09
Without You
10
Demon
01
In The Heat Of The Night (short Version)
02
Burnin' Up
03
Needle In The Groove
04
Reach For The Top
05
Record Machine
06
Silence Is Out Of Fashion
07
Straight Forward
08
Runaway Dreams
09
Getting Out
10
Belfast City Blues
11
Hard Headed Ways
12
In The Heat Of The Night (long Version)
01
Midnight Promises
02
Loose Living
03
Too Little Of You To Love
04
Late Night Rendezvous
05
Crazy Daisy's House Of Dreams
06
Face To Face
07
Gentleman Rogues
08
Lonely Soul
09
Shake My Bones
10
Freedom Fighters
01
Judgement Day
02
What You See Is What You Get
03
Laugh About It
04
Don't Look Back In Anger
05
Left And Right
06
Rescue Me
07
My Way Home
08
Don't Back Down
09
Left And Right
10
Cardboard City
11
Walk All Over Me
12
Fallin'
13
Moorlough Shore
14
Walk All Over Me (live)
15
Rescue Me (live)
16
My Way Home (live)
17
Fallin' (live)
18
The Beast (live)
01
Rollin' On
02
Demon
03
High Energy Weekend
04
Hitch Hike
05
Belfast City Blues
06
Telephone Teaser
07
Shake My Bones
08
Demon
09
Too Little Of You To Love
10
Record Machine
11
This Flight Tonight
12
Time Warp (instrumental)
13
Mama Weer All Crazee Now (live)

Description

Hear No Evil Recordings, The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal of the late 1970s and early 80s gave us many influential and enduring rockers; Derrylin, Co. Fermangh in Northern Ireland gave us Mama's Boys, featuring the McManus brothers; Pat on guitar, John on bass & vocals and Tommy on drums. The young trio had come from a musical family steeped in traditional Irish music, but the McManus brothers developed a more rock-orientated direction when their band Pulse discovered Irish rockers, Horslips. When a DJ jokingly referred to the young group as a bunch of "Mama's Boys", the name stuck. An independent band in the truest sense of the word, they released a number of now very collectable 45s, plus the self-financed 'Official Bootleg' (CD1) in 1980 - it was essentially their demo, pressed up on vinyl to sell at gigs. Gaining attention across the water, they were invited to play a number of important support slots, including Hawkwind in 1982, Thin Lizzy's 1983 farewell tour, opening for Wishbone Ash, and eventually a prestigious appearance at the 1983 Reading Rock festival. In 1982 the band released their second self-financed recording, 'Plug It In' (CD2), featuring the single 'Needle in The Groove'. The album and single gained them support from important and influential UK magazines, such as Sounds, and Kerrang!. Their third album, 1983's 'Turn It Up', was released to further acclaim, with Kerrang! hailing it as, "Yet another quantum leap!" Mama's Boys were then snapped up by Jive Records, recording a number of commercially successful albums during the 1980s, and gaining all important exposure in the United States through rotation on MTV, before releasing 'Relativity' (CD4) in 1992. Sadly, it was Mama's Boys last album. However, this collection is completed with 'B-Sides & Rarities (1980-1992)' (CD5), a compilation of early singles and non-album tracks, including 'Rollin' On', 'High Energy Weekend', 'Belfast City Blues', and finishes of with a 1992 live version of the Slade classic, 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now'. The set includes liner notes based on new interviews with the band's Pat McManus.