Girls Against Boys

Girls Against Boys
Cover for 2002 album You Can't Fight What You Can't See
Background information
Origin	Washington DC
Genres	Indie rock Post-hardcore
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Touch and Go Records Southern Records Jade Tree Records
Members
Eli Janney Scott McCloud Johnny Temple Alexis Fleisig
Former members
Brendan Canty

Girls Against Boys are an indie rock/post-hardcore band, originally forming in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and currently based in New York City.

The group began as a side project of Eli Janney and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Canty soon left the project and by 1991 Janney had gone on to recruit three former members of D.C. hardcore punk group Soulside—Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, and Alexis Fleisig—to complete the line-up. Girls Against Boys are perhaps most notable for employing dual bass guitars, a rarity in rock music, and for their second album, Venus Luxure No.1 Baby, a heavy yet nuanced entry into early 1990s post-hardcore. This album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series, and at the 25th anniversary concert for Touch and Go Records held in Chicago in September 2006.

They provided music for the soundtrack to the film Series 7: The Contenders, and one song for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Clerks. They also contributed the song "Freaks" to the soundtrack for the cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Scott McCloud currently plays in Paramount Styles. After Girls Against Boys became inactive in 2003, Eli Janney became a full time producer for many bands.

In February 2009, the band began a European tour.

Band members

• Eli Janney – bass, back-up vocals, keyboards
• Scott McCloud – vocals, guitar
• Johnny Temple – bass
• Alexis Fleisig – drums

	"Super-fire" Sample of "Super-fire" by Girls Against Boys, from House of GVSB (1996) [
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	"She's Lost Control (Joy Division cover)" Sample of Girls Against Boys' cover of Joy Division's 1979 song "She's Lost Control", released on the Joy Division tribute album A Means To An End (1995)
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Discography

Studio albums

• Tropic of Scorpio (Adult Swim, May 1992)
• Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (Touch and Go, August 1993)
• Cruise Yourself (Touch and Go, September 1994)
• House of GVSB (Touch and Go, February 1996)
• Freak*on*ica (Geffen, 1998)
• You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree, 2002)

Johnny Temple (1993)

Extended plays

• Nineties Vs. Eighties (Adult Swim, March 1992)
• Sexy Sam (Touch and Go, 1994)
• B.P.C./Satin Down (Your Choice Records, 1994)
• Disco Six Six Six (Touch and Go, October 1996)

Split releases

• Cheap Sweaty Fun & TJ's Xmas (1994) — Split 7" with Man or Astro-man?
• 8 Rounds (Radiopaque Recordings, 1997) — Split CD EP with Guided by Voices; benefit for the Washington Free Clinic.

External links

• Official band website
• Touch and Go Records, band mini-site
• Southern Records, band mini-site
• Kill the Sexplayers! by Travis Jeppesen