BB Gabor (album)

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BB Gabor
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Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedJune 1979
Studio5 studios in Toronto [1]
Genre New wave [2]
Length37:00
Label Anthem [2]
Producer Terry Brown [3] [1]
B. B. Gabor chronology
BB Gabor
(1980)
'Girls of the Future'
(1981)

BB Gabor is a 1980 album by the Hungarian Canadian artist B. B. Gabor. [3] It featured two Canadian hit singles: "Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewellery)" and "Metropolitan Life." [4] [5] [6] The album focused on themes such as city life, Soviet oppression, love, and consumerism. [7]

Contents

In 2007, 17 years after Gabor's death, the Canadian label Pacemaker Entertainment combined his two albums, BB Gabor and Girls of the Future, onto a single CD. [8]

Track listing

OrderTitleLengthWriter(s)Ref
1"Metropolitan Life"2:41Gabor, Stevenson [3] [4]
2"Consumer"2:48Gabor, Stevenson [3] [4] [7]
3"Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewellery)"2:38Gabor, Armstrong [3] [5] [4] [9]
4"Laser Love"4:10Gabor, Stevenson [4] [7]
5"Moscow Drug Club"4:25Gabor, Stevenson, Keldie [3] [4] [10]
6"Underground World"3:09Gabor [4] [7]
7"All the Time"5:06Gabor, Scott [4] [11]
8"Hunger, Poverty & Misery"3:46Gabor [4]
9"Ooh Mama"2:16Gabor [4]
10"Big Yellow Taxi"5:43 Joni Mitchell (cover) [4] [1]

Personnel

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