REAL KIDS – first two records

I decided to make a little theme for a few posts and put up some early Boston punk stuff—a little history lesson if you will. I have a huge collection of this stuff and some of it’s great and some is not so great, but I keep it all for completion’s sake and because I love this stupid city (even though I live across the river in the People’s Republic.)

So anyways, here are the first two releases by one of Boston’s finest, the Real Kids—their debut 7″ from 1977 and their first LP from 1978. These guys had been kicking around for a few years before releasing these records, with main man John Felice having already done a stint in the Modern Lovers in ’72 at the tender age of 15 and starting the Real Kids the next year (this early era is well-documented on a multitude of reissue LPs.) Their sound is more ’60′s than ’77, with a good dash of ’50′s rock and roll for good measure, but still decidedly “punk”—sort of like if Chuck Berry played on the first Ramones LP. Check out the LP title track here and decide for yourself. Pretty nice prices for both of these auctions, the 7″ would be a good buy under $40.

And for all the HC heads out there, the LP is being sold by a resident of Holliston, MA—home to Down But Not Out and the infamous Stretch Gayhole.