Dead End Kids Discography of CDs

Dead End Kids discography The Dead End Kids got their first big break when they opened for the Bay City Rollers during a British tour in 1976, and the two bands were likely a good match -- on their first and only album, 1977's Breakout, the Dead End Kids play calculated, commercial pop music aimed at the younger side of the teen market, following the same approach that had made the Rollers a massive success. While the Dead End Kids lack the same "guilty pleasure" appeal as the Rollers all these year later, Breakout at least shows that the group were good at what they were doing. Singer Robbie Gray had solid pipes, and while producer Barry Blue and arrangers John Cameron and Graham Preskett turn these songs Teflon-slick, the band delivers the material with enthusiasm and as much conviction as one can muster for songs like "I'm Your Music Man," "All My Love Always," and "Last Night in Chinatown" (the latter complete with rinky-tink "Chinese" keyboard lines). While "Tough Kids" is a laughable attempt to make the boys sound like they came from the wrong side of the tracks, the covers of "C'mon Let's Go" and "Have I the Right" are solid, and when the band work up a decent head of steam they suggest that if they'd been encouraged to rock harder they could have become a teeny-bopper version of Slade. The Dead End Kids were over and done with by the end of the '70s, and while Breakout is far from a lost classic, its suggests the group had a potential for better things they ...

Dead End Kids songs THE DEAD END KIDZ(DEK) are a 5 piece band that hail from New York. DEK was formed in the mid 1990's and have been rocking ever since. DEK has recieved favorable reviews in such prestigous magazine's as BILLBOARD and THE VILLAGE VOICE in the US, and other publiactions World Wide such as BURNN! in Japan. Combining the influences of hard rocking legends like KISS, Aerosmith, Van Halen, AC/DC, Rush and Ted Nugent with lessor known, but well respected bands like UFO, Thin Lizzy, Saxon, Riot, DEK has formed a hard rocking sound ...

Dead End Kids CD discography Various Artists - A Tribute to The Stranglers