Eight Legged Groove Machine [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

The Wonder Stuff | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00004ZE4Z
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,308 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Red Berry Joy Town

2. No, For The 13th Time

3. It's Yer Money

4. Rue The Day

5. Give, Give, Give, Me More, More, More

6. Merry Go Round

7. The Animals And Me

8. A Wish Away

9. Grin

10. Mother And I

11. Some Sad Someone

12. Ruby Horse

13. Unbearable

14. Poison

15. Times Will Change

16. A Song Without An End

17. Goodbye Fatman

18. Astley In The Noose

19. Ooh, She Said

Editorial Reviews

Remastered. Includes 4 bonus tracks ( A Song Without An End, Goodbye Fatman, Astley In The Noosa, Ooh, She Said)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greats!, November 19, 2004

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Joseph A. Braddock "joepat" (West Melbourne, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eight Legged Groove Machine (Audio CD)

Listened to this again after about 10 years and found out AGAIN how much this is a classic. Every song is great and interesting in its own way. Can't believe more people aren't exploring things like this instead of the spoonfed crap out there now. Guess you had to be there and experience the time. This is a great album that does not come by that often. Please respect it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great raw energy songwriting, November 14, 2000

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David Nahmani (Valley Village, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eight Legged Groove Machine (Audio CD)

This comes from the time where they used to make albums with only singles-quality songs. By far the best work from the Wonderstuff, although the first!

You'll think of the beatles with a new youth, more energy but those songs that stick in your head for a while. I never ubderstood why the wonderstuff never got bigger. They were here before Oasis and are much beter in my humble opinion.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and funny., May 2, 2008

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Joao Nunes (Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eight Legged Groove Machine (Audio CD)

If I have to pick up one word to describe this album, it's "fresh". Back in 1988, what made the Wonder Stuff so special and different from the great American indie bands of the time was that they didn't take themselves seriously. As they said in a interview, they were happy to go on touring as long as they could steal toilet paper from the hotels.

I first saw the Wonder Stuff on the video of "It's Yer Money" and they had an instant impact on me. The band looked like a bunch of long-haired hippies with Lennon's round glasses, doing Bleatlesque antics in a park. And the song was incredibly catchy. As pop as a rock song could be. And they were funny, too. "Forget your heart, it's your bank I wanna break" - ha! The Wonder Stuff took the happy-go-lucky Beatles of "She Loves You" and fuelled it with Miles Hunt' witty sarcastic humour.

Latter, when I bought this album, I found that the same could be said of the 14 songs on it. There's not a weak track in here. A collection of fast melodic pop songs with loud guitars and a couple of mellow ones thrown in for balance.

Yet, their playing is quite simple, almost banal, (well Martin Gilks had a peculiar style of drumming that I really liked) with little room for pointless guitar solos or other embellishments. The arrangements stick to the essential with only two tracks barely topping the 3 minute mark. And the chord progressions are anything but new. But Miles Hunt surely knew how to grab three old chords and make something fresh out of them. He understood that it is the song that matters. And this album is all about perfect 3 minute songs that stick like glue. Not very often a band is so effective with such economy.

Maybe the 5 stars are a bit exaggerated but 4 just wouldn't do. I still enjoy this album and I can't help but laugh when Hunt spitfires his poison "I didn't like you very much when I met you. And now I like you even less." Far out!