Since @Chance's thread about "girl" songs was fun, I figured we should go with the logical followup! Plurals acceptable. Examples: "This Boy" - Beatles "Dear Boy" - McCartney "Beautiful Boy" - Lennon "Beautiful Boys" - Ono Have fun!
Circle Jerks- "Anxious Boy" Descendents- "Eunuch Boy" Sonic Youth-"Torquise Boy" Guided by Voices- "Chocolate Boy" GbV- "Revolution Boy" GbV- "Smoggy Boy" GbV- "Turbo Boy" GbV- "The Rally Boys" (assuming it's ok to ignore the "the" and include plurals) Tobin Sprout- "Carnival Boy" Circus Devils- "New Boy" Circus Devils- "Diamond Boys" (if plurals are ok) The Cure- "The Perfect Boy" (if we can skip the "the") Wat Tyler- "Rude Boy" Capstan Shafts- "The Lightning Boy" (if we're allowed to skip the "the") The Felice Brothers- "Minstrel Boy" (I think that's a cover tune but I only know the Felice Brothers version) Rocket from the Crypt- "Shy Boy" Bettie Seeverr- "Tom Boy"
What a great song, and a nice surprise to see such a secret gem (relatively speaking in a Beatles-dominated space*) cited so early in a thread like this. I put this song on a best-of comp I made for friends in 2016. I never really looked this up, but I assumed the lyric was influenced by the drummer’s suicide years ago that brought this fantastic group to a halt. Is that true? *I do love the Beatles for the record; not meant as a dis
