Label: Numero

Reissued 11/22/2024

Sleep off the rest of your summer with this comprehensive 36-song, four LP overview of Kansas City's midwest emo pioneers. From 1993-1997 Boys Life defined this anxious strain of heartworn power pop punk, issuing a pair of standard-bearing albums between endless circling of the U.S. DIY circuit. Collected here are their Departures and Landfalls and self-titled albums, singles, split 7"s and 10", live tracks, and rare demo tape, all annotated and illustrated inside a 24-page book. 

Track listing:

LP 1 Boys Life LP

1. Golf Hill Drive
   
2. Tucked In
   
3. A Quarters Worth
   
4. Without Doubt
   
5. Lister
   
6. Breaker Breaker
   
7. Cloudy And 47
   
8. Temporary
   
9. Clay Hill

LP 2 - Departures And Landfalls

1. Fire Engine Red
   
2. All Of The Negatives
   
3. Twenty Four Of Twenty Five
   
4. Radio Towers
   
5. Sleeping Off Summer
   
6. Calendar Year
   
7. Friends For That
   
8. Painted Smiles

LP 3 - Boys Life Demo

1. Temporary
   
2. Strike
   
3. Cloudy+4
   
4. Hiawatha
   
5. Boxes
   
6. Lister (Synergy Records)
   
7. Without Doubt (Synergy Records)
   
8. Signing Off (Kansas City Comp)
   
9. Breaker Breaker (Secular Theme Split)
   
10. Temporary (Vitreous Humor Split)
    
11. Worn Thin (Giants Chair Split)

LP 4 - Christie Front Drive Split

1. Sight Unseen
   
2. Homecoming
   
3. Two-Wheeled Train
   
4. Sight Unseen Live (Crank Comp)
   
5. Firm Handshake (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
   
6. Fire Engine Red (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
   
7. Sleeping Off Summer (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)
   
8. Radio Towers (Live At Black Cat Washington, DC 1997)