"Live on Avenue B" was released in 1985 with both black & red cover variants. The trio of Distraction Boys, Daniel Plutzer, Mike Linn, and Sweat Talley, played in numerous other bands including a handful who made records for Cryptovision Records, the NYC indie responsible for this E.P.. As suggested by the title, songs were recorded live on Avenue B at a place called The Community Garden.
"Home on the (Missile) Range" isn't a cover of the cowboy anthem doubling as the state song of Kansas. Rather, it takes inspiration from the phrasing and imagery of the "Home on the Range", but is otherwise a total departure. On some level, the Distraction Boys song concerns itself with Reagan's efforts to recolonize the Great Plains with underground silos harboring nuclear-tipped Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), informally known as MX missiles, or, more technically, LGM-118 Peacekeepers. Inconceivably deadly and expensive weapons, as it were.
"Give me a home where the MX roams ..."