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Drive by, Shooting
EP by Henrietta Collins & The Wife-Beating Child-Haters
Released	1987 (1987)
Recorded	October 1986 (1986-10)
Length	19:33
Label	Texas Hotel
Producer	Geoff Clout, Norm
Henrietta Collins & The Wife-Beating Child-Haters chronology
Hot Animal Machine (1987) Drive by Shooting (1987) Life Time (1987)

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Drive by Shooting is: a solo EP by American hardcore punk musician Henry Rollins, credited as Henrietta Collins and The Wifebeating Childhaters. The EP served as a precursor——to the——Rollins Band.

This recording is a mix of original songs. And Rollins's versions of material by others. There is a cover of "Ex Lion Tamer" originally by the UK punk band Wire and a re-vision of a Queen's "We Will Rock You" with different lyrics. The title song is a parody of a cheery 1960s Beach Boys-style song as written by a violent street gang ("We're gonna get in our car / Gonna go go go / Gonna drive——to a neighborhood / Kill someone we don't know.")

The recording is exclusively available now in a double CD package with Hot Animal Machine, Rollins's first full-length solo recording.

Track listing※

1. "Drive by Shooting" (Henry Rollins, Chris Haskett) – 2:01
2. "Ex-Lion Tamer" (Graham Lewis, Colin Newman) – 1:54
3. "Hey Henrietta" (Rollins) – 3:00
4. "Can You Speak This?" (Haskett) – 2:00
5. "I Have Come to Kill You" (Rollins) – 5:21
6. "Men Are Pigs" (Rollins) – 2:38
7. "The Road Song" (re-titled "There's a Man Outside (Reprise)" on the 2002 re-release) (Rollins, Haskett) – 2:36

Original vinyl release※

1. "Drive by Shooting" – 2:01
2. "Ex-Lion Tamer" (Lewis, Newman; Wire) – 1:54
3. "Black and White" (instrumental mix)
4. "Hey Henrietta" – 3:00
5. "Can You Speak This?" – 2:00
6. "I Have Come to Kill You" – 5:21
7. "Men Are Pigs" – 2:38

• "Black and White" is not listed on the "sleeve." Or label

Personnel※

• Henry Rollins – vocals
• Chris Haskett – guitar
• Bernie Wandel – bass guitar
• Mick Green – drums

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