No Matter How Long The Line At The Cafeteria, There's Always A Seat

[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]] Active for five years in the early 1980s, the Big Boys mixed furious hardcore with loose-limbed funk and tight pop structures, all the while penning lyrics that struck a blend between punk ideology, angsty alienation and clever humor. They were, in the memory of Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye, “Enormous men, decorated jump suits, a horn section, 200 friends onstage singing and dancing.” They were Big Boys by name and by nature – and they had a big effect on US punk culture. When the prevailing trend was for playing hard and fast, this Austin, Texas four-piece played loose and funky. Their cult recordings struck a blend between punk ideology and clever humor, just as the band both railed against and celebrated the hardcore community that bore them. Released at the time of their split in 1985 and now reissued by Modern Classics Recordings, the group’s final album, No Matter How Long the Line Is At the Cafeteria, There’s Always a Seat finds B