Bops Babes Booze & Bovver [Import]

Nips 'n' Nipple Erectors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Big Beat UK
• ASIN: B000067A5Q
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,364 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. King Of The Bop

2. Nervous Wreck

3. So Pissed Off

4. Stavordale Rd N5

5. Venus In Bother Boots

6. Fuss And Bother

7. All The Time In The World

8. Private Eye

9. Gabrielle

10. Vengeance

Editorial Reviews

Issued on CD for the first time ever, this the complete studio recordings of this legendary punk outfit, founded and fronted by a pre-Pogues Shane MacGowan and "woman they couldn't hang" Shanne Bradley. The Nips' exhilarating blend of punk, garage and rockabilly is sometimes neglected in the wake of the later achievements of Shane and Shanne. This short, sharp, low-price, 10-track CD should more than put that to rights. Features both sides of each of the group's three original Soho Records singles, and two tracks that were unissued prior to the 1987 vinyl issue of this material.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a change!, August 10, 2005

By 

Jeffrey Lees (Camp Hill, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (Audio CD)

I just picked up this record, the only Nips music available to the general public, and I thought maybe the case was wrong and that someone slipped some early Clash into this sleeve. The spitfire delivery of Joe Strummer or Johnny Rotten leaps out over three chords and a bassline straight from the Ramones first record. Shane MacGowan barely sounds like the Shane we would all come to love as the frontman of the Pogues and yet this record is undeniably pure Shane. If you want the Irish stuff, don't look here. If you wanna throw your fist in the air and pogo like it's 1977, spend the ten bucks.

4.0 out of 5 stars worth your money, December 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (Audio CD)

I highly suggest this album as a fascinating insight into the musical development of Shane MacGowan. Great music? Not really, but it is pretty good, with a few of the tracks being extremely good-- All The Time and Gabrielle especially. There is definitely a Kinks-vibe to the Nips' sound, and it's not anywhere near pure "punk" as I expected. But, as always, anything featuring Shane is worth your time and money.

5.0 out of 5 stars Early MacGowan, November 25, 2011

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Bob Mamrak - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (Audio CD)

This recording is much more than documentation of Shane MacGowan's art at an early stage of development. It is a damn fine record. A fusion of punk, rockabilly, and genius.Rake at the Gates of Hell: Shane MacGowan in Context