King Kong Groover

King Kong Groover is the second album by Babylon Zoo. The album suffered from poor promotion from their record label, EMI, and from little press coverage. It did not do well in the charts.

The song "Chrome Invader" was originally called "Silver Surfer" but had to be changed for copyright reasons. The Japanese version of the album includes two bonus tracks - an acoustic cover of T.Rex's "Cosmic Dancer" and a remix of "The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes".

The singles from the album were "All The Money's Gone", which failed to make the top 40, and a cover of Mott the Hoople's "Honaloochie Boogie", which was abandoned soon after the promotion had begun.

The album was reviewed poorly. The New Musical Express called it a "slickly produced machiavellian plundering of pop classics" and a "clumsy effort to resurrect a career that was a fluke in the first place."^[2]

Track listing

(All songs written by Jas Mann unless otherwise noted.)

1. All the Money's Gone
2. Manhattan Martian
3. Honaloochie Boogie (Ian Hunter/Mick Ralphs)
4. Honeymoon in Space
5. Stereo Superstar
6. Chrome Invader
7. Bikini Machine
8. Are You a Boy or a Girl
9. Hey Man
10. Aroma Girl
11. Cosmic Dancer (Marc Bolan) (Japanese version only)
12. The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (Armageddon Babylon mix) (Japanese version only)

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