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| | Digging Your Scene: The Best of the Blow Monkeys | | | Music Artist : | | The Blow Monkeys | | Music Style : | | New Wave | | Record Label : | | Music Club Deluxe | | Release Date : | | 2008-04-29 | | Store Price : | | $20.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $20.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Digging Your Scene
2. Celebrate (The Day After You) - The Blow Monkeys, Curtis Mayfield
3. Wait - The Blow Monkeys, Kym Mazelle
4. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
5. Springtime for the World
6. Be Not Afraid - The Blow Monkeys, Cheb Khaled
7. Reflections '89
8. As the Dust Settles
9. Passionara
10. This Is Your Life
11. Choice? - The Blow Monkeys, Sylvia Tella
12. Slaves No More - The Blow Monkeys, Sylvia Tella
13. Out with Her
14. Heaven Is a Place
15. In Too Deep
16. Let the People Dance
17. Checking Out
18. If You Love Somebody
Disc 21. Man from Russia
2. He's Shredding Skin
3. Atomic Lullaby
4. Wildflower
5. Wicked Ways
6. Forbidden Fruit
7. Squaresville
8. It Pays to Belong
9. Trashtown Incident
10. Fat Cat Belusha
11. Bombed into the Stoneage
12. Aeroplane City Lovesong
13. I Backed a Winner (In You)
14. I Nearly Died Laughing
15. Come on Down
16. Sweet Murder - The Blow Monkeys, Eek-A-Mouse
17. Rise Above
18. Other Side of You
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 An essential "best of"
Submitted on: 2008-05-08 |
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The Blow Monkeys and The Style Council were my two favourite pop groups as a teen during the 1980s. The Blow Monkeys weren't modernists but they were deliciously flamboyant. Like The Council, they flirted with Socialism, 60s/70s soul, jazz, glossy pop, funk and eventually garage house.
Of the five Blow Monkeys studio albums released between 1984 and 1990, only one remains in print. That fact makes this recently released 2 disc, 36 track compilation absolutley essential.
6 tracks from the 1984 debut titled Limping For A Generation.
8 from the 1986 album Animal Magic.
4 tracks from the 1987 album She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter.
6 tracks from the underrated 1988 album Whoops! There Goes The Neighbourhood.
10 tracks from the final studio album Springtime For The World.
The two 1989 garage house singles recorded with Sylvia Tella (Choice? & Slaves No More) were never included on any of the studio albums.
A fantastic reminder of an outstanding British pop group.
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 ditto
Submitted on: 2008-02-09 |
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| Thank you Christian Buckley for your comments. I was thinking that EXACT same thing just seconds before coming across your comments. You hit it right on the head! |
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 Yet another compilation
Submitted on: 2004-11-17 |
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| Don't get me wrong - I am a huge fan of the Blow Monkeys. But I purchased this album hoping for SOMETHING different about the songs it compiled, only to be disappointed. If you have the albums, there is no need to buy this compilation. In fact, half of the catalog on these guys are nothing but repackages of the same song versions, so buyer beware. If you really want to add some Blow Monkeys to your collection, I recommend picking up their first 3 albums (Limping for a Generation, Animal Magic, She Was Only a Grocers Daughter) and ignore the rest. Really. |
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