Bow Wow Wow - 1982 - I Want Candy

Artist...............: Bow Wow Wow

Album................: I Want Candy

Genre................: Rock, New Wave

Source...............: Retail CD

Year.................: 1982

Ripper...............: ravakk

Codec................: EaC Lame

Quality..............: cbr 320

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz

Information..........: G6 repack from SRL





Tracklisting





01 - I Want Candy 2:45

02 - Baby, Oh No 2:47

03 - Louis Quatorze 2:50

04 - Cowboy 3:33

05 - The Mile High Club 3:29

06 - Go Wild in the Country 5:22

07 - Jungle Boy 5:15

08 - El Boss Dicho 2:13

09 - (I'm a) T.V. Savage 2:38

10 - King Kong 2:18





Bow Wow Wow was a 1980s New Wave band created by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and business partner Vivienne Westwood's, New Romantic fashion lines. [1] The group's music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound".



McLaren persuaded guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman and percussionist David Barbarossa (also known as Dave Barbe), of the then lineup of Adam & the Ants to leave Adam Ant and form a new group. After a six-month long audition process, the band hired teen singer Annabella Lwin.[2] Musician David Fishel, originally from Liverpool, an acquaintance of McLaren's, discovered 14-year-old Lwin while she was working a Saturday job at her local dry cleaning shop. She was singing along to a Stevie Wonder song on the radio. The group's sound was a mix of her "girlish squeal," Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, pop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music influenced tom tom drum beats. Among the regular faces at the band's early London gigs were Latin songwriter/producer Richard Daniel Roman and Boy George, then known as Lieutenant Lush. McLaren was also going to use the latter (later of Culture Club fame) as a second lead singer, but he was deemed to be "too wild" for the band[citation needed]. In 1982, Bow Wow Wow had their first U.K. top 10 hit with “Go Wild in the Country.” The band's most popular hit was the New Wave staple, "I Want Candy" (originally a 1965 hit by The Strangeloves). "I Want Candy" was featured in an early music video on MTV. Bow Wow Wow's recording of "I Want Candy" continues to appear in film soundtracks and media and advertising events such as the 2005 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Their most notorious recording was "Sexy Eiffel Towers," a bold ode to masturbation, including excitedly heavy breathing and orgasmic moans; this was a song that went far beyond the slightly later Cyndi Lauper hit "She Bop", about similar subject matter. [3] The group released three full-length albums. In 1983, tensions in the group were rising. Suffering from illness and exhaustion after intense US touring, they went their separate ways.