Battle Hymns for Children Singing [Extra tracks]

Haysi Fantayze | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B00004S7JN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,086 in Music (See Top 100 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 [Groovy Long Version][*]

14. Holy Joe [Bonus Remixes][*]

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

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

17. Sister Friction [Bonus Remixes][*]

Editorial Reviews

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

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

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chris ginsburg (san francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Hymns for Children Singing (Audio CD)

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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sabres And Stovepipes, April 15, 2000

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Will O (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Hymns for Children Singing (Audio CD)

Its about eighteen years since this album first appeared on vinyl, and now Haysi fans (and yes - there are many!) are thrilled to see its release on CD at long last.

The album contains the songs which made Haysi Fantayzee such a media and pop phenomenon here in the UK - the style of Kate and Jeremiah visually was always a clue to the music, but the content of that music escaped many. "Sabres Of Paradise" focussed on suicide, while "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" concerned itself with a stab in the eye of racism. And the ubiquitous "Shiny Shiny" was more than just a modern nursery rhyme - the song took a quirky look at an impending apocalypse.

This album is a treat not only on its own merits, but also because of the inclusion of the 12" versions of many of the singles - the Groovy Long Version of "John Wayne" is more fun than a bouncy castle in summertime, and the remix of "Sister Friction" is nothing short of thrilling. The only thing that would have improved the track listing would have been the inclusion of Kate's solo single, "Love Me Like A Rocket" - the remix of that was astonishing, with the vocals of a angel and the look of a devil!

Dip beneath the Dickensian stove-pipes and dreadlocks and listen to the heart of the music. You won't regret it..

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good, for the most part, January 5, 2002

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Eddie (Azusa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Hymns for Children Singing (Audio CD)

Only one album? They had enough craziness for at least several!

I'd admit it, this CD needs some getting used to, but once that is done, you'll like most of the songs. I still don't know about that "John Wayne" one and "Here Comes the Beast" though. However, Jeremy and Kate can rival other New Wave artists.

My favorites: "Holy Joe", "Sister Friction", "Jimmy Jive Jive", and of course, the one hit in the United States, "Shiny Shiny". Track 15 is funny to listen to at first, Jeremy and Kate can be very silly at the same time.

Recommend for big New Wave fans.