Bators snarls out this song like he hadn't long to live... and he didn't.  Sonic Reducer was part of the repertory of Rocket From The Tombs, an early '70s Cleveland Ohio punk band that split into The Dead Boys and Pere Ubu in '75 and from which all the Dead Boys better ditties derived.

I had this album as a teenager, and listened to it fairly frequently, although I wasn't as fond of the Dead Boys as I was of the Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, etc. (and none of them matched my reverence for the Stooges and the NY Dolls). Then I lost the album (or, considering some of the friends I had in those days, had it stolen) and hadn't heard anything from that album for over 20 years. I had always loved "Sonic Reducer" and bought the CD a few years ago, motivated by a yearning sense of nostalgia. Unfortunately, like that album I used to have by The Plasmatics, the music hasn't held up all that well over the years. Some of the songs are still ok; a lot of songs I used to think were ok seem like silly adolescent crap now (maybe I'm just starting to show my age). Except for "Sonic Reducer". It still sounds as furious and pulsing and exhilerating now as it did when I was 17. The purest thing the Dead Boys ever did, and their one unqualified and still-stupendous "classic".