Search - Blow Monkeys :: Digging Your Scene: Best of Blow Monkeys

Blow Monkeys
Digging Your Scene: Best of Blow Monkeys
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Digging Your Scene
2. Celebrate (The Day After You)
3. Wait
4. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
5. Springtime for the World
6. Be Not Afraid
7. Reflections '89
8. As the Dust Settles
9. La Passionara
10. This Is Your Life
11. Choice?
12. Slaves No More - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
13. Out with Her - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
14. Heaven Is a Place
15. In Too Deep
16. Let the People Dance
17. Checking Out - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
18. If You Love Somebody
Track Listings (18) - Disc #2
1. Man from Russia
2. He's Shredding Skin
3. Atomic Lullaby
4. Wildflower
5. Wicked Ways
6. Forbidden Fruit
7. Squaresville - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
8. It Pays to Belong
9. Trashtown Incident
10. Fat Cat Belusha - The Blow Monkeys, Anker, Mick
11. Bombed into the Stoneage - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
12. Aeroplane City Lovesong
13. I Backed a Winner (In You)
14. I Nearly Died Laughing
15. Come on Down - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
16. Sweet Murder
17. Rise Above - The Blow Monkeys, Doctor Robert
18. The Other Side of You - The Blow Monkeys, Anker, Mick

CD Details

All Artists: Blow Monkeys
Title: Digging Your Scene: Best of Blow Monkeys
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Release Date: 3/4/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock
Styles: New Wave & Post-Punk, Europe, Britain & Ireland, Adult Contemporary
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Digging Your Scene
UPC: 5014797670792

Synopsis

Album Description

Two CD compilation from Blow Monkeys who were the British Pop/Rock quartet led by singer/guitarist Dr. Robert. They broke through with the U.K. and U.S. with the Top 40 hit 'Digging Your Scene' in 1986 and they went on to place ten singles and four albums in the U.K. charts between 1986 and 1990. In the U.S., they are perhaps best known for the track 'You Don't Own Me,' which appeared on the multi-platinum soundtrack album Dirty Dancing in 1987. The cd features 36 marvels from the career of this overlooked UK outfit. Music Club. 2008.

CD Reviews

Yet another compilation

Christian Buckley | Washington State, United States | 11/17/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"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."

An essential "best of"

SoulStylist | south east London/Harlem | 05/08/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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.

"