I Want Candy (album)

I Want Candy
Compilation album by Bow Wow Wow
Released May 1982
Recorded 1981–1982
Genre New wave music
Length 32:48
Label RCA Records
Producer
Bow Wow Wow chronology
Teenage Queen
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AllMusic[1]

I Want Candy is a compilation album by new wave group Bow Wow Wow, released by RCA Records in May 1982. The album peaked at No. 123 on the Billboard 200.[2]

To capitalize on the success of the "I Want Candy" music video on MTV, RCA compiled I Want Candy for their newfound American audience. Side 1 of I Want Candy contained all four tracks from The Last of the Mohicans EP and their recent hit single, "Baby, Oh No". Side 2 consisted of four tracks from See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy and "El Boss Dicho", the B-side to the "Go Wild in the Country" single.

It featured production by Kenny Laguna of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts fame.[3]

The cover photograph, a nude image of lead singer Annabella Lwin painted gold, was taken by Jim Varriale. This photo was later reversed for the cover of the 2008 Love, Peace & Harmony - The Best of Bow Wow Wow collection on Sony BMG.

I Want Candy is also the name of a 2003 two-disc Bow Wow Wow anthology from Castle Music's Sanctuary Records, and a 2007 three-track EP on Cleopatra Records, which also contained a cover of the Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".

Track listing

All tracks written by Malcolm McLaren, Matthew Ashman, Leigh Gorman and David Barbarossa except where noted.

Side 1
No.TitleProducerLength
1."I Want Candy" (Bert Berns, Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer)Kenny Laguna2:43
2."Baby, Oh No" (Annabella Lwin, Ashman, Gorman, Barbarossa)Laguna, Ritchie Cordell2:44
3."Louis Quatorze"Laguna2:48
4."Cowboy" (Ashman, Gorman, Barbarossa, Pierre Grillet, Stephane Pietri)Laguna3:30
5."Mile High Club"Laguna3:26
Side 2
No.TitleProducerLength
6."Go Wild in the Country"Brian Tench5:21
7."Jungle Boy"Tench5:12
8."El Boss Dicho" (Ashman, Barbarossa, Gorman)Tench2:10
9."(I'm a) TV Savage"Colin Thurston2:35
10."King Kong"Thurston2:18
Total length:32:48

References

  1. ↑ Demalon, Tom. "Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy Review". Allmusic.
  2. ↑ AllMusic Bow Wow Wow > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
  3. ↑ "Kenny Laguna Biography". JoanJettBadRep.com. Blackheart Records.
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