Frank Chickens - Club Monkey (c) 1998 Resurgence
Artist....: Frank Chickens
Album.....: Club Monkey
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 12
Genre.....: New Wave
Label.....: Resurgence
Catalogue#: RES137CD
Encoder...: LAME 3.90.3 Mod VBR
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uzhxlfwe5cqr
Tracklist:
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01 Do The Karaoke 02:52
02 Club Monkey 03:34
03 Waiting For A Dog 03:41
04 Burn That Body 03:59
05 Revolution 03:17
06 Night Drain 03:58
07 Feed Me 04:38
08 Jackie Chan 04:03
09 Shaken By Gods Hand 05:09
10 M.Y.T.H. 03:55
11 Hey Dead 05:21
12 Club Monkey (Reprise) 00:18
Total:62,1 MBB / 44:45 min
Release Notes:
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The female duo Frank Chickens -- vocalist Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi
Taguchi -- usually cover both sides of the spectrum: born in Japan but
residents of London; respectful of classical Japanese culture but
equally at home paying homage to cheap monster movies; as likely in
their lyrics to launch into scathing feminist criticisms of Western
society's view of Japanese women as they are to enjoy absurd, campy
silliness for its own sake. Hohki and Taguchi met in 1978 in an
organization called the Japanese-American Toy Theatre, which performed
classic plays and stories using toy robots, action figures, and
Godzilla dolls. The publicity given the endeavor by a BBC radio program
eventually helped the two launch a recording career, whose first LP was
1984's We Are Frank Chickens. The record spawned a minor hit in "Blue
Canary" and was produced by Steve Beresford and David Toop, both of
whom helped write musical material; the style was a mixture of
synth-pop, funk, jazz, dance, and Japanese traditional music. When
Taguchi left the project, the Kaz label issued the Best of Frank
Chickens compilation, which gathered album highlights and early non-LP
singles. However, Hohki regrouped with Atsuko Kamura for 1987's more
openly political Get Chickenized, returning again in 1989 as bizarre as
ever with Club Monkey. In between musical ventures, Hohki made herself
an important figure in introducing karaoke to Great Britain through her
BBC television series The Karaoke Klub; she also continued to perform
with Frank Chickens at clubs and theaters into the 1990s.