Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) - Bananarama, DeCarlo, G.
Hey Young London - Bananarama, Blue, B.
Boy Trouble
Wish You Were Here
Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares [*] - Bananarama, Cotillard, V.
Girl About Town [*]
He's Got Tact [*]
Tell Tale Signs [*]
No Feelings [*] - Bananarama, Cook, P.
2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1983 debut album by the most successful British girl group in Pop history featuring five bonus tracks: 'Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares', 'Girl About Town', 'He's Got Ta... more »ct', 'Tell Tale Signs' and 'No Feelings' . 16 tracks total including the hits 'Shy Boy', 'Really Saying Something' (with Fun Boy Three) and 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' and more. Warner« less
2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1983 debut album by the most successful British girl group in Pop history featuring five bonus tracks: 'Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares', 'Girl About Town', 'He's Got Tact', 'Tell Tale Signs' and 'No Feelings' . 16 tracks total including the hits 'Shy Boy', 'Really Saying Something' (with Fun Boy Three) and 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' and more. Warner
CD Reviews
Yup, Really Saying Something!
William | United States | 05/12/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A great debut from Bananarama, though they don't sound as confident as on their other albums this album is still a gem. From excellent songs like What a Shambles, to Shy Boy it is all here. The bonus tracks are good too. I would recommend this album to everyone, such good work!"
"Dive" Into "Deep Sea Skiving" !!!
D.B. | New Mexico | 06/26/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This reissue was a treat for many reasons...
First, being Bananarama's oldest album, the digital
remastering made quite an impact on the sound quality...
I compared "Shy Boy" from my original CD to this new one,
and was blown away by the sound difference !
This is a great album, one of Bananarama's best...
"He's Got Tact", which is very rare (and rather good) !
Also nice to hear some old vinyl "B-Sides" (Sounding crisp and new),
such as
"Tell Tale Signs" and a cover of The Sex Pistol's "No Feelings" !
Also, I must say, the packaging is great, they have retained all of
the "Ocean Theme" pictures, (as well as "Baby Pictures" of the group members)!
(These pictures were featured on the inner sleeve when the album was released WAY back in 1983).
"Deep Sea Skiving" is good clean fun !!!"
This is their first lp?
Jeffrey S. Weatherill | NJ | 06/06/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama's first lp sounds like seasoned well trained artists on their 3rd or 4th album.
Deep Sea Skiving is just amazing with fun songs and lyrics, and great collaberations (Terry Hall, Fun Boy 3), and gorgeous and haunting harmonies and shared lead vocals. Many strong songs on this first of many Bananarama albums to come. Great mix of fun, lament, sweetness and young love with and without pain. Karen, Sarah and Siobhan's angelic vocals mix and compliment without straining to be the lead. Their first few albums really showed their sisterhood. With that I say "Cheers Then"."
'Girls About Town'
Paul Ess. | Holywell, N.Wales,UK. | 07/20/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Skip the first two songs on 'Deep Sea Skiving' (Both covers, one a stinker by Paul I-Was-Talented-Once Weller), and head straight for 'What A Shambles' as the start of Bananarama's debut album proper. From there on, it's a stompin' rock/dance excursion into retro-Motown and early Brit-pop.
The Nana's (The best-selling all girl-group in the history of the world I remind. No, it's not the Go-Go's (!)) have a rather naïve, flat, almost deadpan delivery, but this is more than compensated for by great song-writing hooks and clever, uncluttered arrangements.
Highlights are many; the Dollar-like 'Cheers Then' is a monster, 'Boy Trouble' is quite touching in typically distant Nana fashion, and the album's closing number 'Wish You Were Here' is almost anthemic in a surging, terrace chant sense.
This kind of pop doesn't date the same way as the sound of hair-metal or synth-duo's. OMD's 'Architecture and Morality' for example, still stands up brilliantly, but it's recognisably of its time - 'DSS' could've been recorded last week.
Image-wise, though manufactured cutie-cuties, I always found them rather sexless. A bit dungarees and worthy-women's-groups earnest but totally meaningless sloganeering. The BIG hair only half gives it away, guys of course, had big hair in the 80's as well (Oh for the days of the centre-parting!).
'DSS' is the essence of Bananarama before they went all SAW, high-nrg and high-tech, (ie; dead!)
The cover is awful (Don't 'View Large' for God's sake!), they look about 14 and gawky, in a mock-up aquarium, and inside, they pose innocently with....banana's. (!) Who thinks these things up? (Warning; creative genius at work.)
Two years later they were having none of this, they were sophisticated diva's after a sharp injection of glamour. Still not sexy, but now with records that stank. Such is the inevitable, almost organic, decline of the many in music.
But we have 'Deep Sea Skiving' and it's worth having. Nothing profound, nothing sacred, nothing demanding or controversial. Comfortable in its own skin you might say, and ultimately, extremely enjoyable."
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1