Track Listing

1. Red Berry Joy Town
2. No For The 13th Time
3. It's Yer Money
4. Rue The Day
5. Give Give Give Me More More More
6. Merry Go Round
7. Animals And Me
8. Wish Away
9. Grin
10. Mother And I
11. Some Sad Someone
12. Ruby Horse
13. Unbearable
14. Poison
15. Times Will Change
16. Song Without An End
17. Goodbye Fatman
18. Astley In The Noose
19. Ooh She Said

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1820 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-30
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Maybe it was the fact that the uncle of singer Miles Hunt had played unhinged French horn on the very weird first ELO album and sax with retro rock & roll pranksters Wizzard which so inspired the irreverent humour and common pop touch of the Wonder Stuff. Appearing from nowhere (well, Wolverhampton actually) in 1987 and with girls' hairstyles, The 'Stuffies dutifully stuck a whoopee cushion beneath the raincoat-covered arse of a glum English indie scene with their 1988 debut Eight Legged Groove Machine--a winning mix of brisk, skiffle-light, laddish pop and quite swaggering impertinence. "Unbearable", for example hammed it up with a sawn-off That Petrol Emotion riff and the almost Churchillian barb of "I didn't like you very much when I met you/but now I like you even less" while "It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby" ("It's not your heart/it's your bank I want to break") was something akin to Ray Davies with behavioural problems. "Astley In The Noose" (one of four b-sides added to this repackaged edition) was a call for the hanging of a certain manly voiced 80s pop star for the crime of singing oldies. Probably a jibe too far, considering the Wonder Stuff went on to have a number one single with a rather hairy-chested version of Tommy Roe's mouldy old "Dizzy". --Kevin Maidment

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Debut
I was lucky enough to see them at the Reading festival just before TELGM was released, and rushed out to buy it.

I then saw them at Leicester Poly at one of the best gigs of my life. They had a stunning energy and had the whole place dancing, even the usually quiet ones at the back.

This is the only album I liked by the Wonder Stuff, for me their other stuff doesn't even come close, but this is a classic. 5/5

can't believe i'm actually posting this review
Walking through woolies in the mid-eighties, i heard 'a wish away' by the wonderstuff playing on the shop gramophone. Crikey, i thought, that's a fine tune. 84 years later i'm still playing this and all the other wonderstuff albums.
Those who know and love them will know that they're an infectious, addictive band caught very easily by word of mouth. I passed the infection on to many of my friends and they all maintain the same affection for this band that i do.
This first album is marginally my favourite over the others but they're all cracking.
If you've stumbled upon this page by accident then first, get help using your computer next time and secondly shell out for this CD and prepare to be educated.
Better still, buy a ticket to see them play their fiddles and bows this winter in a town near you. They're best eaten live.

The Stuffies best album.
This has to be the best Wonder Stff album: it is the most rock 'n' roll, and has all the best Stuff songs on it. Only 'Rue The Day' is devoid of Wonder-Stuff-isms, but it is overall an incredible album.