Root Boy Slim : His Discography

"Direct Current"  (1977)

'Washington Comes Alive!

The Second Annual Homegrown Music Festival'

Sounds Reasonable Records  SR7708  (vinyl)

Features two live tracks by Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band's original line-up,
on an album long out-of-print, and nearly impossible to find.


Side 2:

Express Train
You Can't Quit My Club

"Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band" (1978)

Warner Brothers Records  BSK 3160

An important and necessary addition to any record collection.
This LP was once very hard to find, especially during Slims' peak of notoriety in the Washington, D.C. area.
Joe's Record Paradise had a very difficult time obtaining copies of this (including back stock and cut-outs), in keeping the fan's who were discovering Slim for the first time supplied with his debut album.
Long out of print...it is obtainable through various sources on the Internet including eBay at affordable prices. Sealed or near mint condition copies are increasingly difficult to come by...

Side 1:

Boogie 'Til You Puke
I'm Not Too Old For You
I Used To Be A Radical
Heartbreak Of Psoriasis

I Want It Now

Side 2:

Mood Ring
Too Sick To Reggae
My Wig Fell Off
Country Love
In Jail In Jacksonville
You Can't Quit My Club

"X-Mas at K-Mart" b/w "Too Much Jawbone" (1978)

"The Shah is Gone" (January 1979)

As much as I hate to disappoint everyone...this song exists solely as an unreleased recording. It received an awful lot of 'airplay', but it was only distributed to certain radio stations that Joe Lee shopped it around to. It was never pressed into vinyl, as some might suggest.
At one point, Joe Lee was negotiating with Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records in Chicago for a possible release of the sessions...but the deal never materialised.
Ironically, "The Shah is Gone" never turned up on the "Left For Dead" LP either, from which session the song originated.  Joe slipped me an HQ cassette copy only a week after it was mixed in 1979 - and I still have it today ! Someday you might hear classics like : "Fruit-Picker's Saturday Night", "Bus Station Blues", and "Spaceship Boogie"...now you're interested huh ?

"The Meltdown" b/w "Graveyard of Losers" (April 1979)
  A scarce 45. According to Joe Lee, only 1000 were pressed.

"ZOOM" (October 1979)

Illegal Records  ILP 004 (Vinyl)
Rip Bang Records  RBR 001 (CD)
Side 1:

World War III
Do the Gator
The Loneliest Room In the World
Quarter Movie On My Mind
Sugar Daddy
Ignite It

Side 2:

She Wants To Move In
Dare To Be Fat
Motel Of Love
Dozin' & Droolin'
Express Train

CD bonus track:

Live For Tonight

Illegal Records  9007-S  (U.S. pressing)

"World War III"  3:05 b/w "Dare To Be Fat" 3:52

Illegal Records  ILS  0014 (U.K. pressing)

"Dare To Be Fat"  3:05 (Edit.) b/w "World War III"   3:05

"Dog Secrets" (March 1984)

Congressional Records  CR 001 (Vinyl)
Rip Bang Records  RBR 005 (CD)

Editors note: According to Joe Lee, this album had a pressing of 1200 copies.
This would account for the scarcity and availability of the vinyl issue of this LP.
The first 200 were distributed among the musicians, and those involved in it's production.
The rest were distributed to various retail outlets, and sold out quickly.

Side 1:

21st Century Man
Liquor Store Holdup In Space
Inflatable Doll
So Young, So Hip, So Lame
Singles Bar

Side 2:

Tough Luck
Don't Make Me Stop
Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Paul
Don't Tell Your Mother
Cowboy Out In the Sun Too Long

CD bonus track:

Go Go Girls Don't Cry

Unreleased tracks: 

Pizza Hut Woman
Rhythm Pill
We Turned Your Dealer Down

"Don't Let This Happen To You" (1986)

Kingsnake Records  KS 0001 (Vinyl)

Side 1:

When You Date the Undead
Rich, White & Republican

Health Spa Lady
Kinky U.
Computer Lover

Side 2:

They Don't Sing on the Corner

I Fell Down
It's Only Murder
House Band in Hell
Evolution

"Left For Dead" (1987)

Kingsnake Records  KS 006 (Vinyl)

Side 1:

Left For Dead
Too Wrong To Be Right
Livin' In the Ghetto
Fire in the Hen House

Kinky Karma

Side 2:

My Sign Don't Work
Credit Card Woman

When My Jones Come Down
Eviction Blues
How Low Can You Go ?
Snake Bit & Can't Shit

Unreleased tracks:

The Shah is Gone
Spaceship Boogie
Wired and Wigged-Out
My Love is Real

Bus Station Blues
Fruit-Picker's Saturday Night
Graveyard of Losers*

* released as the B side of "The Meltdown" (1979)

"ROOT 6" (1991)

Ichiban Records/Naked Language  NAK 6002 (CD) 


Everybody's Got A Problem
Burger Row
Hey, Mr. President !
I Want to be A Businessman
Eight-Ball Boogie
SeX With A Capital X
You Excite Me
Our Little Mistake
Party at the Berlin Wall

Big Yellow Streetsweeper

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