Blow Monkeys the Masters


Blow Monkeys The Masters is a compilation album from British pop band The Blow Monkeys, released in 1997 by the Eagle label, for its well-known "Eagle Series", presenting many UK group's master collections.
The second greatest hits album, following Choices - The Singles Collection, it was released in 1989, and contained all their most popular singles. Also on the album is the three most popular singles from their debut album, Limping for a Generation, the two previously unreleased tracks on the previous collection, that is the duets with Sylvia Tella, and the last single released by the band before they split up, "La Passionara".
On Blow Monkeys The Masters was the hard to find cover version of "Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield, whom vocalist and leader Dr. Robert has always pointed to as his main musical inspiration. The song was originally a B-side of the 1986 single, "Don't Be Scared of Me". From their 1988 album Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood was the only two songs here which never appeared in single format, "No Woman Is An Island" and "Squaresville". The album did not feature the second best-charting single from the band, "Wait", which got to No. 7 in early 1989.

Track listing

  1. "Digging Your Scene"
  2. "Wicked Ways"
  3. "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way"
  4. "Out with Her"
  5. "Celebrate "
  6. "Some Kind of Wonderful"
  7. "This Is Your Life"
  8. "Choice?"
  9. "Slaves No More"
  10. "La Passionara"
  11. "Superfly"
  12. "Atomic Lullaby"
  13. "It Pays to Belong"
  14. "Man from Russia"
  15. "Wildflower"
  16. "Forbidden Fruit"
  17. "No Woman Is an Island"
  18. "Squareville"

Personnel