In the time-honoured old lady at the thought of an election, “Not Another One?” yup, it’s another one, but this is the definitive Boys Singles Collection just in case you’d forgotten how bloody good the band is.

The 2CD Digipak features the ‘A’ & ‘B’ sides of every physical (7″ vinyl /CD) Single release from both The Boys & The Yobs from 1977 to 2025. The release includes a 20-page booklet with detailed linear notes and pictures of all the relevant sleeves. Just in case you fancied trawling Discogs looking to track down the elusive original 7″ before the brand new 2026 album drops from The Boys.

What’s not to love about such classics as ‘I Don’t Care’, ‘Sick On You’ ‘, First Time’, and the legendary ‘Brickfield Nights’, which are all very much part of the current Boys live set. But it’s also a chance to wrap up the latter Boys singles like ‘I’m A Believer’ and ‘Punk Rock Girl’, which, to be fair, are distant enough to be joining the first wave classics because time has fallen favourably on songs like those off ‘Punk Rock Menapause’. The liner notes are suitably detailed and offer fantastic value with their twenty pages. Every festive period you can offer up ‘Run Rudolph Run’ or ‘The Worm Song’ just to offend your nan.

Drawing in their footy anthem ‘Svengerland’ and demos as well as unplugged B Sides, this is a comprehensive set and trawling through the good old days in the late 70s to the here and now, it’s a wonderful two-disc showcase to the endurance and downright class of the Boys and all who sailed with them. Forty songs over two discs is one hell of a legacy to Rock n Roll. Buy It!

You can pre-order the collection from Cherry Red – click here

Author: Dom Daley