Destroyed (Sloppy Seconds album)

Destroyed

Studio album by Sloppy Seconds

Released

1989

Recorded

1988 - 1989 at Diehl Production Studios in Carmel

Paul Mahern and Sloppy Seconds

Sloppy Seconds chronology

Singles from Destroyed
	Destroyed (1990)	Knock Yer Block Off (1993)
"Come Back, Traci" Released: 1989 "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" Released: 1990^[1]

Destroyed is the first full length studio album by punk band Sloppy Seconds. It was released in 1989 on Toxic Shock Records on LP and cassette in the US (with a CD release on Metal Blade Records), while it was released with a slightly different track list on Metal Blade Records in the UK on LP and CD. The album was reissued on Last Resort Records in 1995, Coldfront records on October 15, 2002, and Kid Tested Records in 2009 (to coincide with the album's 20th anniversary). The album cover is a parody of the Kiss album Destroyer from 1976.

Track listing

US Release

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Steve Baron, Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Germany"		2:19
10.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
11.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
12.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
13.	"Veronica"		2:42
14.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
15.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
16.	"Time Bomb"		1:42

Bonus tracks

CD bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
17.	"Don's Guns"
18.	"Before We Had Cable"
19.	"Playin' With Poison"
20.	"The Horror Of Party Beach" (demo)
21.	"Witness"
22.	"Woman From Babylon"
23.	"Livin' In the Shadows"
24.	"Public Beat" (rehearsal)
25.	"Somewhere In The Seventies"
26.	"Human Waste" (acoustic)

UK Release

Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Steve Baron, Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33
9.	"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"	John Denver	2:32
10.	"Germany"		2:19
11.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
12.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
13.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
14.	"Veronica"		2:42
15.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
16.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
17.	"Time Bomb"		1:42
18.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

2002 Reissue

Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Steve Baron, Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33
9.	"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"	John Denver	2:32
10.	"Germany"		2:19
11.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
12.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
13.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
14.	"Veronica"		2:42
15.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
16.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
17.	"Time Bomb"		1:42
18.	"Human Waste"
19.	"Conned Again"
20.	"Hooray For Santa Claus"
21.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

Personnel

B.A. - yells, producer
Steve Sloppy - drums, producer
Bo'Ba Jam - bass, producer
Dr. Roadkill - guitar, producer
Paul Mahern - producer, engineer
Mike Kreffel - artwork, cover art, pre-press layout
Rob Perkins - background vocals, photography, road crew
Paul Bohall - background vocals, road crew, bus repair technician
Craig "R.V." Croomes - background vocals
Jeff Masengale - background vocals, photography
Scott Turns - background vocals, road crew
John Barron - road crew

Trivia

On the cover, Steve Sloppy is wearing a Misfits shirt.
The song "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" was the inspiration to the tongue-in-cheek song "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel.

References

↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sloppy+Seconds

Sloppy Seconds

B.A. Ace Hardware Bo'Ba Jam Steve Sloppy Danny Roadkill

Studio albums	Destroyed Knock Yer Block Off More Trouble Than They're Worth Endless Bummer

Live albums	Live: No Time for Tuning

Compilations	The First Seven Inches…And Then Some!

EPs	The First Seven Inches Germany Lonely Christmas V.M.Live Presents Sloppy Seconds Garbage Days Regurgitated

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