Too Many Cowboys

Too Many Cowboys
Live album by The Ex
Released 1987
Recorded Partly live and partly at Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam.
Genre Anarcho-punk
Label Ex Records (Netherlands)
Ron Johnson Records (U.K.)
Mordam Records (U.S.)
Producer Dolf Planteijdt
The Ex chronology
1936, The Spanish Revolution
(1985)
Too Many Cowboys
(1987)
Aural Guerrilla
(1988)

Too Many Cowboys is the second double-album and first album of live recordings by Dutch anarchist punk band The Ex. Recorded partly live and partly in the studio, Too Many Cowboys was the first of the Ex's records to be issued simultaneously in more than one country on both the band's own Ex Records in the Netherlands, by Ron Johnson Records in England, by Mordam Records in the United States, and by Di-Di Records in Greece.[1]

In addition to material not available on any other Ex release, the album contains live versions of songs previously found on the band's double-single/book about the Spanish Civil War and from their then-forthcoming Peel Sessions compilation album, as well as a cover versions of songs by seminal communist Dutch punks The Rondos and contemporary British anarcho-punks Chumbawamba. The original vinyl double-LP came packed with newsprint posters and comics designed by members of the band and their friends, plus a single-sided flexi-disc featuring poet Nico Van Apeldoorn. The Ex reissued Too Many Cowboys on a single CD in 1993.

Track listing

  1. "Red + Black"
  2. "White Shirts"
  3. "Adversit" (originally by Chumbawamba)
  4. "People Again"
  5. "Knock"
  6. "Hands Up! You're Free"
  7. "Ignorance"
  8. "Butter or Bombs"
  9. "Dumbo"
  10. "How Can One Sell the Air"
  11. "Business as Usual"
  12. "Olympigs"
  13. "Choice"
  14. "A Job"
  15. "Stupid"
  16. "Oops"
  17. "No Fear"
  18. "Vivisection" (originally by The Rondos)
  19. "A Piece of Paper"
  20. "They Shall Not Pass"
  21. "Pigjump" (vinyl only)
  22. "Wie Vermoordde Hans K.?" (bonus flexi-disc issued with the original double LP)

Personnel and recording

On "Wie Vermoordde Hans K.?":

Recorded partly live and partly at Emma's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.[2]

Notes

References

  1. "The Ex – Too Many Cowboys". Discogs. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  2. "TOO MANY COWBOYS by The Ex". The Ex Mailorder. The Ex. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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