Box Frenzy

Box Frenzy
Studio album by Pop Will Eat Itself
Released 1 October 1987
Genre Grebo, alternative dance
Label Chapter 22 (UK)
Rough Trade Records (US)
Castle Records (US)
Producer Robert Gordon
Pop Will Eat Itself chronology

Box Frenzy
(1987)		 This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!
(1989)
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Allmusic [1]

"Box Frenzy" is the debut album from UK based Grebo band Pop Will Eat Itself. It was released in 1987 by Chapter 22 Records in the UK and Rough Trade Records in the US, and re-released in 2003 with bonus tracks by Castle Records.

The track "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" samples the songs "When I Fall In Love" by Nat King Cole, and "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" by The Righteous Brothers. Their better-known track "Hit the Hi-Tech Groove" not only samples the techno-disco song "Respectable" by Mel & Kim, as well as the Whistle song "Just Buggin'," but defiantly boasts that the band steals (though they actually sample) as many varieties of sounds that they can get to make their music, ranging from other people's songs to television soundbites.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Grebo Guru" – 3:56
  2. "Beaver Patrol" – 3:08
  3. "Let's Get Ugly" – 4:00
  4. "U.B.L.U.D." – 3:49
  5. "Inside You" – 2:37
  6. "Evelyn" – 3:16
  7. "There Is No Love Between Us Anymore" – 3:55
  8. "She's Surreal" – 4:09
  9. "Intergalactic Love Mission" – 3:53
  10. "Love Missile F1-11" – 4:10
  11. "Hit the Hi-Tech Groove" – 5:10
  12. "Razorblade Kisses" – 1:50

Bonus Tracks

  1. Bubbles (3:11)
  2. Ugly (1:35)
  3. Picnic in the Sky (2:49)
  4. "...On the Razors Edge..." (4:10)
  5. Kiss That Girl (1:47)
  6. Def Con One [*] Constant, Crabb, Marsh, Mole (3:43)
  7. Hit the Hi-Tech Groove (Live) Crabb, Mansell, Marsh, Mole (5:00)
  8. She's Surreal (Live) Crabb, Mansell, Marsh, Mole (4:20)
  9. Pop Will Eat Itself at Def Con One (4:39)

Samples

Let's Get Ugly

There Is No Love Between Us Anymore

Hit the Hi-Tech Groove

Personnel

Pop Will Eat Itself

Songwriters

Hit the Hi-Tech Groove (including Live Version on bonus tracks), She's Surreal (Live Version)

Def Con One

Let's Get Ugly

Inside You

Grebo Guru, There Is No Love Between Us Anymore

U.B.L.U.D., Evelyn, She's Surreal, Intergalactic Love Mission, Razorblade Kisses, Ugly, Picnic in the Sky, "...On the Razors Edge...", Kiss That Girl, Pop Will Eat Itself at Def Con One.

Love Missile F1-11

Beaver Patrol

References

  1. ↑ Box Frenzy at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Pop Will Eat Itself (Trouser Press)

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