Power Pop at its best! The Real Kids - Better Be Good 1977 - 1979 (1999 Norton Records) Flac & mp3

BETTER BE GOOD is an 18-track compilation of alternate takes and live versions of songs that showed up on various releases by the Real Kids and the Taxi Boys, who for all intents and purposes were the same band.

Leader John Felice, who was in the first, unrecorded lineup of the Modern Lovers with his next-door neighbor Jonathan Richman in the early '70s and later roadied for the Ramones, is a punk rock savant; the Real Kids were the first truly great Boston punk band, although they sounded much more like the Flamin Groovies than the Sex Pistols. These three-chord rockers, bracketed by two versions of the great "All Kindsa Girls," are tough, cool, and catchy. Complete novices should probably start with the original albums, but these alternate versions are much more than mere ephemera (allmusic.com)

 To all the ''complete novices'' i think you should take all you can get because these guys were always great. You can't go wrong. The album is contributed by Mark, a very nice guy who contributes to the blog from time to time. Thanks, man!

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