#The Blow Monkeys

[frankboeijen]

Simply beautiful, your plan is to wipe out The hope that we all hold out Nobody gets left out and it pays to belong

[cherry-pop-soda]

the blow monkeys - digging your scene

[millerdoc]

[myost]

[now-playing] - the blow monkeys - animal magic - 1986

[lady-stefania-of-chaol-ghleann]

https://x.com/theblowmonkeys/status/1698708681653735775?s=12&t=LLNFipaP9wLEsc-wLDpSiQ

Maybe a new album?

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[thinglo]

Went to the zoo today!!!

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: February 1, 1986

Lyrics:

I just got your message baby

So sad to see you fade away

(What in the world is this feeling?)

(Catch a breath and leave me reeling)

It'll get you in the end

It's God's revenge

Oh, I know I should come clean

But I prefer to deceive

(Everyday I walk alone)

(And pray that God won't see me)

I know it's wrong

I know it's wrong

Tell me why

Is it I'm digging your scene

I know I'll die

Baby

I'd like to think that I was just myself again

They put you in a home to fill in

Oh, but I wouldn't call that living

(I'm like a boy among men)

(I'd like a permanent friend)

Oh, tell me why

Is it I'm digging your scene

I know I'll die

Baby

I'd like to think that I was just myself again

I just got your message baby

So sad to see you fade away

(I'm like a boy among men)

(I'd like a permanent friend)

Oh, tell me why

Is it I'm digging your scene

I know I'll die

Baby

Oh, come on baby

Oh, Tell me why

Is it I'm digging your scene

I know I'll die

Baby

Oh, come on baby

Songwriter: Robert Howard

SongFacts:

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[churchofsatannews]

The Metro #670

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time warp to the 1980s: The Belle Stars, Bucks Fizz, Shalamar, UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, Stray Cats, The Art Of Noise, The Blow Monkeys, Dexys Midnight Runners, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Kool & The Gang, Harold Faltermeyer, Madness, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Japan, Level 42, Shakin’ Stevens, and…

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

Music Video

Artist

The Blow Monkeys

Composer

Dr. Robert

Lyricist

Dr. Robert

Produced

Peter Wilson Dr. Robert Adam Moesley

Credit

Dr. Robert - Lead vocals, Guitar Mick Anker - Bass guitar Neville Henry - Tenor Saxophone Tony Kiley - Drums Peter Wilson - Keyboards, String arrangements Luís Jardim - Percussion Axel Kroll - Drum programming Dixie Peach - Backing vocals Morris Michael - Backing vocals

Released

April 7 1986

Streaming

[cherry-pop-soda]

TELL ME WHYYYY IS IT IM DIGGING YOURR SCEENEE I KNOW ILL DIEEEEEEEE BAABBYYYY OH TELL ME WHYYY IS IT IM DIGGING YOURR SCEENEEEEE I KNOW ILL DIEEEEE BAABYYY

[millerdoc]

[weaversweek]

Advertising in the music trade press, this week in 1989.

Context follows...

"Be free with your love" was Spandau Ballet's big comeback single, a big and breezy and brassy pop song. Lyric was a bit naff, Tony Hadley's voice rocked, and the instrumental break was awesome. Didn't quite make the top 40, and that's the last we heard of Spandau Ballet.

Jason Donovan introduced himself to Canadian programmers in the pages of RPM. "Too many broken hearts" remains the ultimate 1989 record, squealing guitars and the S-A-W drum pattern.

"The best reason to play Jason Donovan is because he's exceptional." Looking back on his career: yeah, the lad's done good.

Choices was the singles collection from the Blow Monkeys. Doctor Robert and his backing band came through the sophistipop scene, and never quite hit the top tier of fame like Tears For Fears and The Eurythmics did.

The band combined sharp social commentary with funky pop grooves, veering towards dance music at this late stage in their career. Dr Robert was always a left-wing critic, but edged his barbs with more wit and humour than certain Paul Wellers we could mention.

Lead single from this greatest hits album was "Choice?", a cracking dance groove with vocals from Sylvia Tella, and a three-minute deconstruction of R D Laing's "Public Choice" bullshit theory. (Or of the Section 28 attempt to legalise homophobia, as contemporaneous reports had it. Or both.)

"That's the way", an attempt at a comeback for Katrina and the Waves. They'd had a big hit with "Walking on sunshine" four summers ago, and been ever-present on radio with songs like "Sun street" and "Do you want crying".

But a second signature hit had evaded the group. Would this be the breakhrough they craved? And if it was, should they have released it a month earlier when it was still sunny outside?

Katrina and the Waves continued to plug away, to diminishing returns. They next crossed the public radar in early 1997, when they turned up amongst the has-beens and never-weres competing for the Eurovision Song Contest prize... but that's another story.

[albumswhatilistenedto]

[cbcastro]

Just like opening a can of fizzy pop! 

(Which is a treat for me, since I don’t drink soda very often.)