Battle Hymns for Children Singing [EXTRA TRACKS]

Haysi Fantayze

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B00004S7JN
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #418,157 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shiny Shiny

2. I Lost My Dodi

3. More Money

4. Jimmy Jive Jive

5. Sabres of Paradise

6. Sister Friction

7. Shoofly Love

8. Chizoola

9. John Wayne Is Big Leggy

10. Here Comes the Beast

11. Holly Joe [*]

12. Okay Big Daddy [*]

13. John Wayne Is Big Leggy [Bonus Remixes][*]

14. Holy Joe [12" Single Remix][*]

15. Shiny Shiny Dance [Bonus Remixes][*]

16. Shiny Shiny Bon Temps [Bonus Remixes][*]

17. Sister Friction [12" Single Remix][*]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Haysi Fantayzee were formed in 1981 by fashion photographer Kate Garner, former Animal Magnet member Paul Caplin and Jeremy Healy, a well-known face on London's club scene. Together they set about injecting a sense of fun and adventure into the music scene, wearing outlandish, self designed costumes and dreadlocks, and writing songs that married sexual subversion with deliberately disposable and cocksure dayglo pop. Their ''Dickensian Rasta'' look was an immediate hit and saw their debut single 'John Wayne Is Big Leggy' rise to #11 in the national charts. In their brief career they would also enjoy chart success with 'Holy Joe' and 'Shiny Shiny'. All three hits are reprised on this CD, as is their sole album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing. The package also features a host of bonus tracks, remixes, and sleevenotes written with the co-operation of both Healy and Garner. The former went on to become one of the UK's most successful DJs, while the latter is an accomplished and in-demand photographer for artists including Sinead O'Connor, Bjork, David Bowie and others. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my quest is complete, April 17, 2000

By	charley hardman (occupied US) - See all my reviews

twelve years i searched for this album on cd. i am in heaven at this moment, listening to 1 of the 4 copies that just came from amazon. why 4 copies? to give to friends, of course. this album is so weird and chunky and full of life that it just can't be not shared. hard to explain, but it sounds like sesame street music gone freakazoid, with about 5 shots of sex appeal and hipness thrown in. yeah, they disappeared as quickly as they arrived, maybe because there was nowhere for haysi fantayzee to go after this weirded out collection of supreme goofiness; don't let that bother you. if you've never heard of haysi fantayzee but you're a fan of musical diversity, buy this and let it sink into your head. if you're already a haysi fan, i think you'll enjoy the bonus tracks and remixes. took me a couple of road trips in the 80's with a 'battle hymns' tape playing in the background, but i am hooked on this gem now. when listening to the more twisted vocals ('i lost my dodi' for one), some people will probably be too dense to figure out that kate garner really can sing, but what would be the joy in getting it if everybody else did too? shiny shiny bad times behind me, girlfriend. what a piece of work this is.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No one got it back then. Here's another chance, May 23, 2000

By	chris ginsburg (san francisco) - See all my reviews

For those who have stumbled onto this, you have been blessed. This album has been ridiculously difficult to find. Nobody in 1983, not even now has come close to the purple-punk-hillbilly mushroom trip that a beautiful, leggy, Black-Dreadlocked hair chic that ran around in a bikini and thigh high go-go boots with her nutty sidekick accompished 18 years ago. These guys experimented with turntable scratching, Dub, reggae, electronic and fiddles on a post-punk, nihilistic stage 18 years ago. I think they scared everybody back then with their bubbly-happy death dance. This album is must is you are at all curious of musicians that were unbelivably ahead of their time. would somebody email me what the hell happened to them? I heard one of them died. I gotta have the scoop : [e-mail] -thanks

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY! FANTAYZEE ON CD!!!, January 21, 2001

By	"moonshot99" (Lowell, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Thank you thank you thank you to whoever was responsible for getting this 80's masterpiece onto CD! I've been waiting for years for this. Listening to it today, it sounds like it could have been recorded last week..... just as fresh and new as it was in 1983! It's a quirky, trippy piece with an odd timeless quality about it. Totally unique, totally catchy..... you'll be singing "I Lost My Dodi" in the shower for sure!!!!