Here to Stay (The Slickee Boys album) explained

Here to Stay
Type:compilation
Artist:The Slickee Boys
Cover:Slickeeshts.png
Released:1982
Recorded:1976–1981
Genre:Rock
Label:Line

Here to Stay compiles all five Slickee Boys 7"s from 1976–1981 (plus one previously unreleased song—"Kids"). It was released by the German label Line Records with a catalog number of LLP 5170.It includes cover versions of songs originally recorded by Perry Como (by way of the Downliners Sect), the Rokes (and the Grass Roots—the Slickees combined the two versions), Vince Taylor, the Yardbirds, the Hangmen, The Chocolate Watch Band, as well as the theme from the film Exodus. According to the liner notes for Mersey, Mersey Me, Talking Heads had dropped the song "Girls Want to Be With the Girls" from their repertoire but re-visited it after hearing the Slickees' version, which beat the Talking Heads version to vinyl by months.

Some of these songs were later re-recorded for their 1985 album, Uh Oh… No Breaks! (including "Kids", re-titled "When We Were Kids").

Track listing

  1. "Glendora" – 2:42 (Ray Stanley)
  2. "Golden Love" – 3:47 (Kim Kane)
  3. "Forbidden Alliance" – 2:30 (Mark Noone, Marshall Keith)
  4. "Put a Bullet Thru the Jukebox" – 2:15 (Kane, Jim Testa)
  5. "Let's Live for Today" – 2:45 (Giulio Rapetti, Norman David Shapiro, Ivan Mogull, Michael Julien)
    • Originally recorded by the Rokes (as "Piangi Con Me"), 1966; also recorded by the Grass Roots, 1967
  6. "Girls Want to Be With the Girls" – 2:37 (David Byrne)
  7. "Heart On" – 3:23 (Howard Wuelfing)
  8. "Here to Stay" – 4:15 (Noone)
  9. "Porcelain Butter Kitten" – 2:35 (Kane)
  10. "Brand New Cadillac" – 2:03 (Vince Taylor)
    • Originally recorded by Vince Taylor and His Playboys, 1959
  11. "Psycho Daisies" – 2:09 (Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf)
    • Originally recorded by the Yardbirds, 1966
  12. "Manganese Android Puppies" – 2:10 (Kane)
  13. "What a Boy Can't Do" – 2:32 (Tom Guernsey)
    • Originally recorded by the Hangmen (as "What a Girl Can't Do"), 1966
  14. "Theme from Exodus" – 1:53 (Ernest Gold; arrangement: Keith)
    • Originally in the film Exodus, 1960
  15. "Gotta Tell Me Why" – 4:09 (Noone)
  16. "The Brain That Refused to Die" – 3:15 (Kane, Emery Olexa, Noone, Dan Palenski, Keith)
  17. "(Are You Gonna Be There at The) Love-In" – 6:15 (Ethon McElroy, Donald Bennett)
  18. "Kids" – 3:13 (Kane, Olexa, Noone, Palenski, Keith)

Personnel

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