We Have Come for Your Children

We Have Come for Your Children
Studio album by The Dead Boys
Released	June 1978
Recorded	Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida
Genre	Punk rock
Length	30:17
Label	Sire
Producer	Felix Pappalardi
The Dead Boys chronology
Young Loud and Snotty (1977) We Have Come for Your Children (1978) Night of the Living Dead Boys (1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B–[2]

We Have Come for Your Children is the second and final studio album by the American punk rock band Dead Boys. It was recorded and released in 1978, on Sire Records. The recording of album was troublesome for the group and led to a break because of tensions with producer Felix Pappalardi once the band didn't think he understood their music. When they tried but were unable to get James Williamson of The Stooges to salvage the sessions, the band broke up a short time later.

Track listing

1. "3rd Generation Nation" (Stiv Bators) – 2:35
2. "I Won't Look Back" (Jimmy Zero) – 2:16
3. "(I Don't Wanna Be No) Catholic Boy" (Bators) – 2:42
4. "Flame Thrower Love" (Bators, Zero) – 2:03
5. "Son of Sam" (Zero) – 5:10
6. "Tell Me" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:37
7. "Big City" (Kim Fowley, Steven Tetsch) – 3:03
8. "Calling on You (Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Zero) – 3:29
9. "Dead and Alive" (Bators, Chrome) – 1:48
10. "Ain't It Fun" (Chrome, Peter Laughner) – 4:34

Personnel

• Stiv Bators - lead vocals
• Jimmy Zero - guitar, background vocals
• Johnny Blitz - drums
• Cheetah Chrome - guitar, background vocals
• Jeff Magnum - bass
• Felix Pappalardi - background vocals on "I Won't Look Back"
• Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone as The Ramone Catholic Choir - background vocals on "(I Don't Wanna Be No) Catholic Boy"

Cover versions

• Punk band Electric Frankenstein covered "3rd Generation Nation" on their album Annie's Grave.
• Guns N' Roses covered "Ain't It Fun" on their album "The Spaghetti Incident?".
• Amen referenced this album's title with their 2000 album We Have Come For Your Parents.
• Punk band The Freeze covered "Calling On You" on their EP "Blood Flows Home".
• Sex Pistols producer Dave Goodman assembled a Pistols compilation titled We've Cum For Your Children, an evident parody title of this Dead Boys album.

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