Dress for Excess

Dress for Excess
Studio album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Released	December 1988
Genre	Post-punk, new wave, glam rock
Length	43:03
Label	Parlophone (Europe) EMI America (USA)
Producer	Stephen Hague, Neal X, Stock Aitken Waterman
Sigue Sigue Sputnik chronology
Flaunt It (1986) Dress for Excess (1988) The First Generation (1990)

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Dress for Excess is the second album by British band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music).

Track listing

All songs by Martin Degville, Tony James and Neal Whitmore unless noted

1. "Albinoni Vs. Star Wars, Pts. 1 & 2" - 4:37 (Degville, Stephen Hague, James, Whitmore)
2. "Boom Boom Satellite" - 4:23
3. "Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar!" - 4:29
4. "Super Crook Blues" - 4:00
5. "Rio Rocks!" - 5:18
6. "Success" - 3:50
7. "Dancerama" - 4:45
8. "Orgasm" - 3:27
9. "M*A*D (Mutal Assured Destruction)" - 5:32
10. "Is This the Future!" - 2:42

Track 5, "Rio Rocks!", contains a sample of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) saying "Go ahead, Romeo" from the 1983 movie Scarface. The band Boom Boom Satellites named themselves after the second song on the album.

Personnel

• Martin Degville - vocals
• Tony James - guitar, design, photography
• Neal X - guitar, engineer, producer
• Miss Yana Ya Ya - keyboards, effects
• Chris Kavanagh - drums
• Ray Mayhew - drums
• Bill Mitchell - vocals
• Sylvia Mason-James - backing vocals
• Matt Aitken - producer
• Stephen Hague - producer
• Liminha - producer
• Mike Stock - producer
• Pete Waterman - producer
• Gordon Bonnar - engineer
• Phil Harding - engineer, mixing
• Gary Langan - engineer, mixing
• Stephen Taylor - engineer, mixing
• Ian Ross - art direction, design
• Bill Smith - art direction, design
• Johnny Rosza - photography

References