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Track Listing
- Murder She Said
- More I See (The Less I Believe)
- Going Home
- We're Having All The Fun
- Farmyard Connection
- Tunnel Of Love
- Our Lips Are Sealed
- Pressure Of Life
- Things We Do
- Well Fancy That
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #31275 in Music
- Released on: 1996-08-05
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Worth the Wait
After the disappointment of The Fun Boy Three's debut album I didn't have very high hopes for this despite the recruitment of Talking Head David Byrne as producer. In the end my curiosity for what ex-Specials Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding could produce got the better of me and I parted with my hard earned for a copy of `Waiting'.
It is a truly inspired album and had completely dismissed by reservations two bars into the opening cover of the theme to TV's `Murder She Said' which, as an instrumental, is a brave choice for a vocal group. That this drifts seamlessly into the single `The More I See (The Less I Believe)' which was bound to miss the charts due to it's political nature but is a brilliant slice of political pop. `Going Home' lets the pace slip a while but it picks up again with the self depreciating `We're Having all the Fun' before closing side one with the perfect Reggae of `The Farm Yard Connection'.
Side two open with possibly the most beautiful anti-love song `The Tunnel of Love' which dove tails perfectly with `Our Lips are Sealed' which Terry Hall had originally written for and with The Go-Go's. `The Pressure of Life' is possibly Terry Hall by numbers but `Things We Do' and `Well Fancy That!' are possibly the best songs FB3 ever wrote and make for a perfect end to a perfect pop album.
Fun Boy Three - still 'Waiting'??
Agree with previous reveiwer - I too mislaid the vinyl copy of this album and so was chuffed to find it on CD - a lost classic of the 80's.
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I'd never heard of Fun Boy Three until Christmas time of 2002 when I saw an old performance of 'Telephone always rings' on Top of the Pops2 & I looooved it. I bought this album & it quickly became one of my favourites!!!
Hall's lyrics are thought provoking and intense. All the songs are catchy and accessible.
My only gripe about this band is that I can't find their other albums anywhere and I REALLY wanna hear them!
But this album is worth it's weight in gold!
