Outsiders, The - Calling On Youth LP (1977 Debut)

The Outsiders, featuring bassist Bob Lawrence and drummer Adrian "Jan" James, were punk in the moment before punk cut ties with solos and five minute songs. (Close Up, released in 1978, is more streamlined.) Like the Saints or Crime, they still trafficked in rock 'n' roll. Calling On Youth, though, announces Borland as more than a precious teenage bandleader. The nervous introspection, wiry leads and negative space that he would refine solo and in The Sound, Second Layer and Witch Trials glistens throughout Calling On Youth, beckoning rediscovery.

•  Calling on Youth
•  Break Free
•  On the Edge
•  Hit and Run
•  Start Over
•  Weird
•  I'm Screwed Up
•  Walking Through a Storm
•  Terminal Case