Twenty Two Tunes Live from Tokyo

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Twenty Two Tunes Live From Tokyo
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Live album by
Released1990
Recorded27 December 1989, at Club Quattro, Tokyo, Japan
Genre Punk
Length60:35
Label Receiver Records
Toy Dolls chronology
Wakey Wakey
(1989)
Twenty Two Tunes Live From Tokyo
(1990)
Fat Bob's Feet
(1991)
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Twenty Two Tunes Live From Tokyo is a live album punk band Toy Dolls recorded during a concert in Tokyo in 1990. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Algar, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Wakey Wakey Intro"1:46
2."Dig That Groove Baby"2:34
3."Cloughy Is A Bootboy"3:09
4."Lambrusco Kid"2:53
5."I've Got Asthma"2:11
6."Peter Practice's Practice Place"3:01
7."Deirdre's A Slag"3:22
8."Ashbrooke Launderette"2:24
9."Bless You My Son"2:24
10."My Girlfriends Dad's A Vicar"2:04
11."Spiders In The Dressing Room"1:18
12."Popeye Medley"2:55
13."She Goes To Finos"3:32
14."Fisticuffs In Frederick Street"2:40
15."Harry Cross"4:06
16."Glenda And The Test Tube Baby"3:51
17."Wakey Wakey Outro"1:53
18."When The Saints"1:37
19."Wipe Out" (Connolly, Fuller, Hill, Wilson)3:05
20."Nellie The Elephant"3:37
21."Sabre Dance" (Khachaturian)2:31
22."Blue Suede Shoes" (Perkins)2:32

Personnel

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