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The Dead Boys

Band Cleveland United States Active 1976–2005 US punk band

The Dead Boys formed in 1976 in Cleveland, United States and was active until 2005. The Dead Boys has 17 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1999–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sonic Reducer”, which appears on 17 lists with a best position of #552. The station that charted The Dead Boys most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances.

17appearances

17countdowns

1songs charted

3stations

0#1 finishes

1999–2023years

The Dead Boys were Cleveland's contribution to punk's first wave, and they delivered it with their fists up. Cheetah Chrome on lead guitar and Johnny Blitz on drums had come out of Rocket from the Tombs; they threw in with singer Stiv Bators, rhythm guitarist Jimmy Zero and bassist Jeff Magnum, and before long they had a reputation as one of the rowdiest, most violent bands anywhere on the scene.

Sire put out Young, Loud and Snotty in 1977, and the title is pretty much the whole review. "Sonic Reducer" is the one that lasted: a stomping, sneering blast of a song, Chrome's guitar grinding away while Bators spits every word like he means to start a fight with it. We Have Come for Your Children was the second and last album by the original band.

Bators died in 1990, and the band regrouped without him for the first time in 2004 and 2005. In 2017 Chrome and Blitz rebuilt it with a new lineup for a 40th-anniversary tour and cut the debut all over again as Still Snotty: Young, Loud and Snotty at 40.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by The Dead Boys on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Sonic Reducer	828	17	#552	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1977Young Loud and Snotty1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2023	552	Sonic Reducer	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2014	883	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	908	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	939	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	969	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	939	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	924	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	989	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	909	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	910	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	910	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	1510	Sonic Reducer	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	921	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	1912	Sonic Reducer	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	921	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	918	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	867	Sonic Reducer	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)

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