TOP Music #5: Porcelain Boys - If You Were Real 7"

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THD Records did a nice job of navigating the Minneapolis minefields of the late 80's/early 90's pop-punk explosion and the Porcelain Boys were probably the best representatives from the Twin Cities area. They are very much a blueprint of Descendents/All (I think the singer actually swallowed Milo Aukerman right before busting-deep on the last song) but so was everyone else trying to copy the frantic bass twiddling of Tony Lombardo or Karl Alvarez and singing whiny songs about white girls. The PB's put out at least one other 7" and had a track on Lookout!'s Can of Pork compilation but this record is definitely their best stuff. I tend to think Side 2 skims a little better across lake-superior than Side 1 but maybe that's just because it has 3 songs instead of 2.

Porcelain Boys - If You Were Real
Side 1: If You Were Real, Bedtime
Side 2: Someday, Problem #1, Fortune Favors The Bold