The Eight Legged Groove Machine

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The Eight Legged Groove Machine
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Studio album by
Released1988
Genre Indie rock
Length36:45
Label Polydor
Producer Pat Collier
the Wonder Stuff chronology
The Eight Legged Groove Machine
(1988)
Hup
(1989)

The Eight Legged Groove Machine is the debut album by the Wonder Stuff, released in 1988. [1] [2] NME listed it as the 27th best album of the 1980s. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Washington Post opined that "this is a great debut by a caustic if-we-knew-then '60s-style foursome, an irresistibly catchy recycledelic album that sounds like a world-weary Romantics—or the Flaming Groovies after 20 years in the coffee generation." [5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by the Wonder Stuff

  1. "Red Berry Joy Town" 2:48
  2. "No, for the 13th Time" 3:02
  3. "It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby" 2:48
  4. "Rue the Day" 1:56
  5. "Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More" 2:49
  6. "Like a Merry Go Round" 2:40
  7. "The Animals and Me" 3:05
  8. "A Wish Away" 2:30
  9. "Grin" 2:58
  10. "Mother and I" 2:24
  11. "Some Sad Someone" 2:47
  12. "Ruby Horse" 3:06
  13. "Unbearable" 2:28
  14. "Poison" 2:58
  15. "Times Will Change"(CD bonus track) 0.41

2000 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "A Song Without an End" 4.09
  2. "Goodbye Fatman" 3.11
  3. "Astley in the Noose" 3.30
  4. "Ooh, She Said" 2.52

20th Anniversary Edition

Re-recordings of the original album with bonus tracks, October 2008:

  1. "Red Berry Joy Town"
  2. "No, for the 13th Time"
  3. "It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby"
  4. "Rue The Day"
  5. "Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More"
  6. "Like a Merry Go Round"
  7. "The Animals and Me"
  8. "A Wish Away"
  9. "Grin"
  10. "Mother and I"
  11. "Some Sad Someone"
  12. "Ruby Horse"
  13. "Unbearable"
  14. "Poison"
  15. "Who Wants to Be the Disco King?"
  16. "Astley in the Noose"
  17. "Goodbye Fatman"
  18. "Ooh, She Said"
  19. "Ten Trenches Deep"
  20. "A Song Without an End"
  21. "Times Will Change"
  22. "Apple of My Eye" - bonus track
  23. "Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart" - bonus track
  24. "Shit Out of Luck" - bonus track

Personnel

1988 recording:

The Wonder Stuff
Technical

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [6] Silver60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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