Dark Sneak Love Action

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Dark Sneak Love Action
Dark Sneak Love Action CD album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1991
StudioClubhouse [1]
Genre Funk rock [2]
Length57:11
Label Sire/Reprise/Warner Bros. Records (U.S.)
26951
Producer Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Bruce Martin, Mark Roule
Tom Tom Club chronology
Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
(1988)
Dark Sneak Love Action
(1991)
The Good, the Bad, and the Funky
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau Scissors icon black.svg [4]
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Dark Sneak Love Action is the fourth studio album by Tom Tom Club, released in 1991. [5] [6] It includes the band's cover version of the Hot Chocolate track, "You Sexy Thing." [7]

Contents

The album's final track, "Daddy Come Home," contains a sample of "Measure Up," a track from the band's 1983 album Close to the Bone .

Critical reception

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "experimental" and "funky." [1] Trouser Press deemed it a "thoroughly delightful and diverse multi-cultural exposition on easygoing, sexy pop rhythmotics." [8]

Billboard called lead single "Sunshine and Ectasy" a "kinetic pop/dance gem." [9]

Track listing

All songs written by Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Mark Roule and Bruce Martin except where noted.

  1. "Love Wave" – 5:13
  2. "Sunshine and Ecstasy" – 5:09
  3. "You Sexy Thing" (Errol Brown, Tony Wilson) – 3:46
  4. "Who Wants an Ugly Girl?" – 4:54
  5. "Say I Am" – 4:54
  6. "Irresistible Party Dip" – 5:11
  7. "Dark Sneak Love Action" – 4:21
  8. "Innocent Sex Kiss" – 4:00
  9. "Dogs in the Trash" – 4:28
  10. "My Mama Told Me" – 4:33
  11. "As the Disco Ball Turns" – 5:48
  12. "Daddy Come Home" (Frantz, Martin, Dougie Pincock, Roule, Weymouth) – 5:27

Personnel

Tom Tom Club

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