The Nails formed in Boulder, Colorado back in the late 70s (Jello Biafra was their roadie thenno joke!). They eventually moved to New York City where they received many kudos for their live shows and independent record releases (which included the international hit, 88 Lines About 44 Women). Impressed with the band's independent success on Los Angeles's pioneering alternative commercial radio station KROQ and in the U.K. on John Peel's BBC program, RCA records signed the band with a large advance and the understanding they would re-record their hit 88 Lines About 44 Women. Unfortunately, RCA's radio promotion department got cold feet over the explicit language in 88 Lines and chose a different single to promote from their first album, Let It All Hang Out, a cover of the late 1960s hit by The Hombres. A big-budget video was produced for that song and actually aired on MTV for about a week in the fall of 1983. RCA eventually dropped the band from its roster, but not before they had released two albums for the label. Though the Nails never made enough money from sales of their records to pay back money advanced, they were able to make a bundle selling the rights to 88 Lines About 44 Women to McDonalds, Mazda and other large corporations who used the song to hawk their products in national ad campaignsproving once again that sex does sell. Corpus Christi , the bandE?s only post-RCA album, includes 10 previously-unreleased 1980s studio recordings and the original version of 88 Lines About 44 Women, taken from their long-out-of-print Hotel for Women EP (Jimboco - City Beat, 1981).