Social Distortion “Poshboy’s Little Monsters” 1981/2019. Poshboy Records/Radiation Records. Limited edition (200) red and white splatter vinyl (Italian pressing). There is quite a bit of backstory to this 6-song EP by California first wave punks Social Distortion, who were teenagers (drummer John Stevenson was only 16!!) when they recorded this session with Poshboy Records’ Robbie Fields. SD’s first single “Mainliner” was originally intended to be a 4-song EP. According to Robbie Fields’ liner notes on Poshboy’s Little Monsters, “…I had promised [Mike] Ness that we would not fight so once there was a minor disagreement over the artwork for the proposed 12” (EP), I dropped the project in favor of the “Playpen“/”Mainliner” 7″ which sported iconic artwork from the band.” So four songs – I believe the other two intended were “Moral Threat” and “All the Answers” which they re-recorded for their first LP Mommy’s Little Monsters – became two in ’81. The other two songs SD recorded with Fields were “1945” and “Moral Threat.” This version of “1945″ appeared on the 1981 comp Rodney on the ROQ and Posh Boy included both “Playpen” and “Justice for All” on its 1981 The Future Looks Bright comp. All six songs would eventually be compiled on Mainliner (Wreckage From the Past) in 1995, Time Bomb Recordings. And that is not an exhaustive list of alternate recordings, record labels and compilations that these songs would take between 1981 and 1995 – it gets complicated and very confusing!