Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed

Cutter John, having been captured by the Soviets on an ill-fated ballooning mission, is returned to the US in exchange for the communist Bill the Cat, who was awaiting execution for treason.( April 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. In both cases, the band member(s) in the original artwork are substituted with members of Billy and the Boingers.

The cover artwork contains parodies of the covers of two of the best-selling rock albums of 1986/87: the front cover is a send-up of Bruce Springsteen's box set Live/1975–85 the back cover includes a spoof of U2's The Joshua Tree (the original blurry/'narrow-heads' version of the cover the spoof deliberately imitates these traits). The track remains the band's signature song and is still played live to close out their shows. 'U-Stink-But-I-♥-U' was performed by New Jersey hardcore band Mucky Pup who also rerecorded the song for their second album, A Boy In A Man's World. The second-place winner, 'U-Stink-But-I-♥-U', was on the B-side. The first-place winner's song, 'I'm A Boinger', was included in the book on the A-side of a flexi disc.

Prior to publication, Breathed announced a contest to solicit original song submissions as if written by or for the in-comic heavy metal rock group, 'Billy and the Boingers'. It is preceded by Bloom County Babylon and followed by Tales Too Ticklish to Tell. Billy and the Boingers Bootleg is the fifth collection of the comic strip series Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed.

Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed