Destroyed (Sloppy Seconds album)

Destroyed is the first full-length studio album by punk band Sloppy Seconds. It was released in 1989 by Toxic Shock Records, on LP and cassette; Metal Blade Records released the CD. Metal Blade also released the LP and CD in the UK, with a slightly different track listing.

Destroyed
Studio album by Sloppy Seconds
Released	1989[1]
Recorded	1988 - 1989 at Diehl Production Studios in Carmel
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Toxic Shock
Producer	Paul Mahern and Sloppy Seconds
Sloppy Seconds chronology
Destroyed (1989) Knock Yer Block Off (1993)
Singles from Destroyed
"Come Back, Traci" Released: 1989 "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" Released: 1990[2]

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.[3]

Track listing

US Release

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Danny Thompson 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

1994 CD re-release 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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Danny Thompson, 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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Danny Thompson, 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

• "Leavin' On A Jetplane" is taken from the "Come Back Traci" single (1989).
• "Serious" is taken from the compilation Welcome To Our Nightmare: A Tribute To Alice Cooper (1993).
• "Human Waste" is taken from the "I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual" single (1990).
• "Conned Again" and "Hooray for Santa Claus" are taken from the Lonely Christmas EP (1992).
• "Don's Guns" is taken from The Shot Heard Around The World compilation (1986).
• "Before Cable" (renamed "Before We Had Cable") is taken from War Between The States: North compilation (1989).
• On the cover, Steve Sloppy is wearing a Misfits shirt.
• The song "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" was the inspiration for the tongue-in-cheek song "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel.

References

1. Folgar, Abel (June 3, 2010). "Sloppy Seconds and Me: Memories of the Band's Landmark LP Before Its Show at Churchill's on Saturday". Miami New Times.
2. "Sloppy Seconds". Discogs.
3. Dubick, Stephanie (June 24, 2014). "An Interview with America's Favorite Junk Rock Band, Sloppy Seconds".