Destroyed (Sloppy Seconds album)

Destroyed
Studio album by Sloppy Seconds
Released	1989
Recorded	1988 - 1989 at Diehl Production Studios in Carmel
Genre	Punk rock
Label	Toxic Shock
Producer	Paul Mahern and Sloppy Seconds
Sloppy Seconds chronology
Destroyed (1989) Knock Yer Block Off (1993)
Singles from Destroyed
"Come Back, Traci" Released: 1989 "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" Released: 1990

Destroyed is the first full-length studio album by punk band Sloppy Seconds. It was released in 1989 on Toxic Shock Records on LP and cassette in the US (with a CD release on Metal Blade Records), while it was released with a slightly different track list on Metal Blade Records in the UK on LP and CD. The album was reissued on Last Resort Records in 1995, Coldfront records on October 15, 2002, and Kid Tested Records in 2009 (to coincide with the album's 20th anniversary). The album cover is a parody of the Kiss album Destroyer from 1976.

Track listing

US Release

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Danny Thpmpson Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Germany"		2:19
10.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
11.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
12.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
13.	"Veronica"		2:42
14.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
15.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
16.	"Time Bomb"		1:42

Bonus tracks

CD bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
17.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

20th Anniversary Edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
17.	"Don's Guns"
18.	"Before We Had Cable"
19.	"Playin' With Poison"
20.	"The Horror Of Party Beach" (demo)
21.	"Witness"
22.	"Woman From Babylon"
23.	"Livin' In the Shadows"
24.	"Public Beat" (rehearsal)
25.	"Somewhere In The Seventies"
26.	"Human Waste" (acoustic)

UK Release

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Steve Baron, Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33
9.	"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"	John Denver	2:32
10.	"Germany"		2:19
11.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
12.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
13.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
14.	"Veronica"		2:42
15.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
16.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
17.	"Time Bomb"		1:42
18.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

2002 Reissue

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Wanna Be A Homosexual"	Steve Baron, Steve Childers	5:04
2.	"Come Back Traci"		2:03
3.	"Take You Home"		1:23
4.	"Black Roses"		2:22
5.	"Runnin' From the CIA"		2:01
6.	"The Horror of Party Beach"		2:08
7.	"Black Mail"		2:49
8.	"So Fucked Up"		2:33
9.	"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"	John Denver	2:32
10.	"Germany"		2:19
11.	"Janie Is A Nazi"		2:36
12.	"I Want 'Em Dead"		3:32
13.	"If I Had A Woman"		2:53
14.	"Veronica"		2:42
15.	"The Candy Man"	Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley	1:34
16.	"Steal Your Beer"		1:40
17.	"Time Bomb"		1:42
18.	"Human Waste"
19.	"Conned Again"
20.	"Hooray For Santa Claus"
21.	"Serious"	Alice Cooper, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Bernie Taupin	2:14

Personnel

• B.A. - yells, producer
• Steve Sloppy - drums, producer
• Bo'Ba Jam - bass, producer
• Dr. Roadkill - guitar, producer
• Paul Mahern - producer, engineer
• Mike Kreffel - artwork, cover art, pre-press layout
• Rob Perkins - background vocals, photography, road crew
• Paul Bohall - background vocals, road crew, bus repair technician
• Craig "R.V." Croomes - background vocals
• Jeff Masengale - background vocals, photography
• Scott Turns - background vocals, road crew
• John Barron - road crew

Trivia

• On the cover, Steve Sloppy is wearing a Misfits shirt.
• The song "I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual" was the inspiration to the tongue-in-cheek song "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel.