As the frontman for the Dead Boys, Stiv Bators terrorized audiences with his snotty, in-your-face punk rock style. But after the Dead Boys, Bators embarked on a musical journey that saw him touch upon power pop during a brief solo career.\u00a0Stiv moved to Los Angeles and signed with Bomp! Records, Greg Shaw’s label that released many seminal 70s West Coast punk and power pop groups such as the Nerves, the Weirdos, the Zeros and the Germs.<\/p>\n
The first Bators single to emerge from Bomp!, \u2018It’s Cold Outside\u2019 (originally by Ohio legends The Choir), is a song that the Dead Boys reportedly could not figure out how to play. It was released in May 1979. The B side \u2018The Last Year\u2019 is a Stiv\/Jeff Jones (alter ego of Frank Secich) song dedicated to the recently deceased bassist of the Sex Pistols Sid Vicious and would later appear on the LP \u201cDisconnected\u201d (1980).<\/p>\n
Although included in our past release \u201cI Wanna Be a Dead Boy\u201d (1992), as a limited edition 7\u201d boxset, this is the first time the single gets an official reissue in its original format.<\/p>\n
This is an essential power pop classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the Dead Boys, Bators embarked on a musical journey that saw him touch upon power pop during a brief solo career.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n This is<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0the first Bators single to emerge from Greg Shaw\u2019s Bomp! Records (1979) and includes a stunning version of The Choir\u2019s original \u2018It\u2019s Cold Outside\u2019 and the original \u2018The Last Year\u2019 on the B-side.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Although included in our past release \u201cI Wanna Be a Dead Boy\u201d (1992), as a limited edition 7\u201d boxset, this is the first time the single gets an official reissue in its original format.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n This is an essential power pop classic!<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":111717,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[246,65],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111718","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-power-pop-en","7":"product_cat-punk-en","8":"product_shipping_class-cd-en","9":"pa_formato-7-en-2","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/111718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=111718"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=111718"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=111718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}