I Want Candy (album)

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I Want Candy
Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedMay 1982 (1982-05)
Recorded1981–1982
Genre New wave [1]
Length32:48
Label RCA
Producer
Bow Wow Wow chronology
Teenage Queen
(1982)
I Want Candy
(1982)
Original Recordings
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide B− [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Smash Hits 7/10 [5]

I Want Candy is a compilation album by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow, released in May 1982 by RCA Records. Side one of the album consists of all four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's EP The Last of the Mohicans , and the band's recent hit "Baby, Oh No"; these tracks were produced by Kenny Laguna of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts fame. Side two consists of four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's debut album See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! , and "El Boss Dicho", the B-side to the single "Go Wild in the Country".

Contents

Though RCA had previously issued The Last of the Mohicans in the United States, the label wished to release a full-length album to capitalize on the American success of the music video for the band's single "I Want Candy" on MTV. I Want Candy peaked at number 123 on the US Billboard 200. [6]

The cover photograph, a nude image of lead singer Annabella Lwin painted gold, was taken by Jim Varriale. The photograph was later reversed for the cover of the 2008 compilation album Love, Peace & Harmony – The Best of Bow Wow Wow.

I Want Candy is also the name of the UK edition of EMI's compilation of the band, Twelve Original Recordings which reached 26 on the UK album chart, [7] as well as 2003 two-disc Bow Wow Wow anthology from Castle Music's Sanctuary Records, and a 2007 three-track EP on Cleopatra Records, which also contained a cover of the Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Matthew Ashman, David Barbarossa, Leigh Gorman and Malcolm McLaren, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."I Want Candy" Bert Berns, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer Kenny Laguna 2:43
2."Baby, Oh No"Ashman, Barbarossa, Gorman, Annabella Lwin 2:44
3."Louis Quatorze" Laguna2:48
4."Cowboy"Ashman, Barbarossa, Gorman, Pierre Grillet, McLaren, [lower-alpha 1] Stephane PietriLaguna3:30
5."Mile High Club" Laguna3:26
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
6."Go Wild in the Country" Brian Tench5:21
7."Jungle Boy" Tench5:12
8."El Bosso Dicho"Ashman, Barbarossa, GormanTench2:10
9."(I'm a) T.V. Savage"  Colin Thurston 2:35
10."King Kong" Thurston2:18
Total length:32:48

Notes

  1. Uncredited on I Want Candy, but credited on original release on The Last of the Mohicans [8]

Charts

Chart (1982)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [9] 88
US Billboard 200 [6] 123

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