Shoes - Boys Don't Lie

[1977]

More golden non hits and memories. The opening tune to the debut Shoes record Black Vinyl Shoes and it's another crackin' tune.

I hate it when all a critic can say about a band is who they influenced. However when you hear this tune it's hard not to go "oh surely Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Pale Saints were into this" but I don't recall any of these bands back then ever citing Shoes as an influence in interviews during the late 80s otherwise me or my mates would have had some shoes records in our collections. Shoes got on my radar a few years later though, in the mid 90s via the Rev-ola reissue of Black Vinyl Shoes. It's fitting that Rev-ola was a Creation Records sub label then.