Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz explained

Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
Type:studio
Artist:Pretty Boy Floyd
Cover:PBF-LeatherBoyz.jpg
Released:October 5, 1989
Recorded:Kajem/Victory Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre:Glam metal[1] [2]
Label:MCA
Producer:Howard Benson
Next Title:A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n' Roll
Next Year:1998

Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz is the debut album by the American band Pretty Boy Floyd.[3] [4] It reached No. 130 on the United States Billboard chart in 1989. It was released on MCA Records and was produced by Howard Benson.

The band produced videos for the songs "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire)" and "I Wanna Be with You”.

Track listing

  1. Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz - 4:48
  2. Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire) - 3:13
  3. Wild Angels - 5:08
  4. 48 Hours - 2:59
  5. Toast of the Town* - 3:18
  6. Rock and Roll Outlaws - 2:33
  7. Only the Young - 3:51
  8. The Last Kiss - 2:39
  9. Your Mama Won't Know - 3:42
  10. I Wanna Be with You - 3:57

Bonus

The 2003 bonus re-issue featured some extra tracks, a couple of which had been recorded as part of Kristy Majors solo project.

  1. Slam Dunk
  2. She's My Baby
  3. Two Hearts
  4. Over the Edge
  5. I Just Wanna Have Something to Do (Ramones cover)

Limited Edition

A very limited-release 2011 re-issue featured a cover of Department of Youth, by Alice Cooper, originally released on Welcome to my Nightmare in 1975.

Personnel

Pretty Boy Floyd

Additional musicians

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Top 50 Glam Metal Albums . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171126083532/http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=8 . 26 November 2017 . 24 February 2021 . Metal Rules.
  2. Beaujour . Tom . Bienstock . Richard . Eddy . Chuck . Fischer . Reed . Grow . Kory . Johnston . Maura . Maura Johnston . Weingarten . Christopher R. . 2019-08-31 . 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time . 2021-05-31 . Rolling Stone . en-US.
  3. Book: Popoff . Martin . The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade . 2014 . Voyageur Press . 178.
  4. Klosterman . Chuck . Paradise City . Spin . Sep 2002 . 18 . 9 . 78.