The Eight Legged Groove Machine

• Artist : The Wonder Stuff
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0731454926324
• Format : Extra tracks
• Format : Original recording remastered
• Label : Spectrum
• Manufacturer : Spectrum
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Spectrum
• Release Date : 2000-10-30
• SKU : VRE/731454926324/N/731454926324
• Studio : Spectrum
• UPC : 731454926324

Maybe it was the fact that the uncle of singer Miles Hunt had played unhinged French horn on the very weird first ELO album and sax with retro rock & roll pranksters Wizzard which so inspired the irreverent humour and common pop touch of the Wonder Stuff. Appearing from nowhere (well, Wolverhampton actually) in 1987 and with girls' hairstyles, The 'Stuffies dutifully stuck a whoopee cushion beneath the raincoat-covered arse of a glum English indie scene with their 1988 debut Eight Legged Groove Machine--a winning mix of brisk, skiffle-light, laddish pop and quite swaggering impertinence. "Unbearable", for example hammed it up with a sawn-off That Petrol Emotion riff and the almost Churchillian barb of "I didn't like you very much when I met you/but now I like you even less" while "It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby" ("It's not your heart/it's your bank I want to break") was something akin to Ray Davies with behavioural problems. "Astley In The Noose" (one of four b-sides added to this repackaged edition) was a call for the hanging of a certain manly voiced 80s pop star for the crime of singing oldies. Probably a jibe too far, considering the Wonder Stuff went on to have a number one single with a rather hairy-chested version of Tommy Roe's mouldy old "Dizzy". --Kevin Maidment

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Red Berry Joy Town
  • 2: No, For The 13th Time
  • 3: It's Yer Money
  • 4: Rue The Day
  • 5: Give, Give, Give, Me More, More, More
  • 6: Merry Go Round
  • 7: The Animals And Me
  • 8: A Wish Away
  • 9: Grin
  • 10: Mother And I
  • 11: Some Sad Someone
  • 12: Ruby Horse
  • 13: Unbearable
  • 14: Poison
  • 15: Times Will Change
  • 16: A Song Without An End
  • 17: Goodbye Fatman
  • 18: Astley In The Noose
  • 19: Ooh, She Said

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