Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club [Import]

Bruce Woolley (Artist), Camera Club (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red Records
• ASIN: B002U0SZUA
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,060 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. English Garden

2. Video Killed the Radio Star

3. Dancing With the Sporting Boys

4. Johnny

5. No Surrender

6. Flying Man

7. You Got Class

8. W.W.9.

9. Clean Clean

10. Get Away William

11. Goodbye To Yesterday

12. Goodbye To Yesterday (Reprise)

13. You're the Circus (I'm the Clown)

14. Bobby Bad

15. Blue Blue (Victoria)

16. 1000 Mph

17. Ghost Train

18. House of Wax

Editorial Reviews

2009 reissue of this seminal and influential album featuring the respected recording artist, songwriter and record producer, Bruce Woolley. Members of the Camera Club included a young unknown Thomas Dolby on keyboards and Matthew Seligman, also of The Soft Boys on bass. Bruce Woolley has enjoyed a very varied and interesting career, enjoying success especially as a songwriter and record producer. Woolley has enjoyed widespread success as the co-writer of pop classics including Video Killed The Radio Star, Grace Jones' Slave To The Rhythm and has written/worked with many other artists; Marc Almond, Nile Rodgers, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Pet Shop Boys and Divine amongst many others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I heard you on the wireless back in 82..., January 21, 2010

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club (Audio CD)

This nifty little record slipped under the radar in 1979. It is composed of tightly wound, keyboard driven new wave and an edgy sounding vocalist, just the kind of thing that everyone expected of the period's next charge of the British invasion. What set "English Garden" (the UK version of this album) apart was the pedigree. Woolley was a founder of The Buggles and a co-writer of two of their best known songs. The band also included a little known but inventive keyboardist named Thomas Dolby

Most of the songs here are pretty good, and Woolley takes those two signature songs and works them out in a way that suggest why he split from Horn and Downes...he rocks them instead of machinates them. With the exception of "You Are The Circus," the songs are a cut above most of drivel that was being released as "new wave" about as fast as companies could sign them. Unfortunately, Woolley didn't catch on, the band broke up, Dolby discovered science, and this record fell into the ranks of cult classics.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just a little different than vinyal version, February 21, 2010

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Joseph Komar (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club (Audio CD)

It is great that this is even on CD, but be advised the Vinyl version of the album is different than this CD. Lyrics are different to the beginning of Video Killed The Radio Star.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, but it IS different from the vinyl version., March 18, 2011

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David Schwab (Montclair, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club (Audio CD)

I bought this on vinyl back in 1979 and it was one of my favorite albums at the time. Recently I had converted the vinyl version to MP3 so I could listen to it on my iPod. Since it was played so often, it was a bit scratchy sounding. So I looked to see if it was ever on CD and found this version. I just got it today, and much to my surprise several songs are totally different recordings or mixes. They sound like demo versions.

Besides "Video Killed the radio Star," as mentioned by others, "Clean Clean" has a weak sounding vocal track and almost no keyboards, and "Goodbye to Yesterday" is a different arrangement, more akin to the reprise version. Everything else is the same and there are bonus tracks I had not heard before. I'm keeping the vinyl versions of the aforementioned three songs on my iPod, as I like them better, but the alternate versions are cool too.

This album has a nice blend of 70s glam rock and the beginnings of the new wave of the 80s. I never realized how much Woolley sounds like Bowie on some tracks!