The Wonder Stuff - The Eight Legged Groove Machine
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Artist: The Wonder StuffEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-11-06
Music Label: Umvd Import
Soundtracks:
- Red Berry Joy Town
- No, For The 13th Time
- It's Yer Money
- Rue The Day
- Give, Give, Give, Me More, More, More
- Merry Go Round
- The Animals And Me
- A Wish Away
- Grin
- Mother And I
- Some Sad Someone
- Ruby Horse
- Unbearable
- Poison
- Times Will Change
- A Song Without An End
- Goodbye Fatman
- Astley In The Noose
- Ooh, She Said
Free Music Notes for The Eight Legged Groove Machine
Free Music Review: Fresh and funny.
Hit: 5 Stars
If I have to pick up one word to describe this album, it's "fresh". Back in 1988, what made the Wonder Stuff so special and different from the great American indie bands of the time was that they didn't take themselves seriously. As they said in a interview, they were happy to go on touring as long as they could steal toilet paper from the hotels.
I first saw the Wonder Stuff on the video of "It's Yer Money" and they had an instant impact on me. The band looked like a bunch of long-haired hippies with Lennon's round glasses, doing Bleatlesque antics in a park. And the song was incredibly catchy. As pop as a rock song could be. And they were funny, too. "Forget your heart, it's your bank I wanna break" - ha! The Wonder Stuff took the happy-go-lucky Beatles of "She Loves You" and fuelled it with Miles Hunt' witty sarcastic humour.
Latter, when I bought this album, I found that the same could be said of the 14 songs on it. There's not a weak track in here. A collection of fast melodic pop songs with loud guitars and a couple of mellow ones thrown in for balance.
Yet, their playing is quite simple, almost banal, (well Martin Gilks had a peculiar style of drumming that I really liked) with little room for pointless guitar solos or other embellishments. The arrangements stick to the essential with only two tracks barely topping the 3 minute mark. And the chord progressions are anything but new. But Miles Hunt surely knew how to grab three old chords and make something fresh out of them. He understood that it is the song that matters. And this album is all about perfect 3 minute songs that stick like glue. Not very often a band is so effective with such economy.
Maybe the 5 stars are a bit exaggerated but 4 just wouldn't do. I still enjoy this album and I can't help but laugh when Hunt spitfires his poison "I didn't like you very much when I met you. And now I like you even less." Far out!
The Eight Legged Groove Machine Poster
Remastered reissue of the UK alternative pop/rock act's 1988debut album. Includes 4 bonus tracks, 'A Song Without An End', 'Goodbye Fatman', 'Astley In The Noose' and 'Ooh She Said'. New sleeve notes and enhanced packaging. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.Remastered. Contains Four bonus tracks ( a Song Without an End, Goodbye Fatman, Astley in the Noosa, Ooh, She Said)
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