Too Many Cowboys

Too Many Cowboys
Live album by The Ex
Released 1987
Recorded Partly live and partly at Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam.
Genre Anarcho-punk
Label Ex Records (Netherlands)
Ron Johnson Records (U.K.)
Mordam Records (U.S.)
Producer Dolf Planteijdt
The Ex chronology

1936, The Spanish Revolution
(1985)		 Too Many Cowboys
(1987)		 Aural Guerrilla
(1988)

Too Many Cowboys is the second double-album and first live album to be released by Dutch anarchist punk band The Ex. Released in 1987, Too Many Cowboys was the first of the Ex's records to be issued simultaneously in more than one country, having been released on the band's own Ex Records in the Netherlands, by Ron Johnson Records in England, and by Mordam Records in the United States.

In addition to material not available on any other Ex release, the album contains live versions of songs previously found on the band's double-single/book about the Spanish Civil War and from their then-forthcoming Peel Sessions compilation album, as well as a cover version of "Vivisection" by seminal communist Dutch punks The Rondos. The original vinyl double-LP came packed with newsprint posters and comics designed by members of the band and their friends. The Ex reissued Too Many Cowboys on CD in 1993.

Track listing

  1. "Red + Black"
  2. "White Shirts"
  3. "Adversit"
  4. "People Again"
  5. "Knock"
  6. "Hands Up! You're Free"
  7. "Ignorance"
  8. "Butter or Bombs"
  9. "Dumbo"
  10. "How Can One Sell the Air"
  11. "Business as Usual"
  12. "Olympigs"
  13. "Choice"
  14. "A Job"
  15. "Stupid"
  16. "Oops"
  17. "No Fear"
  18. "Vivisection" (by The Rondos)
  19. "A Piece of Paper"
  20. "They Shall Not Pass"

Personnel and recording

Recorded partly live and partly at Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.