Description
DESCRIPTION
Five CD round up of the early years of The Toy Dolls. Disc One is debut album Dig That Groove Baby which hit #10 in the Indie Chart back in 1983. The second disc features 1985's #4 Indie Chart album A Far Out Disc which includes the Indie hit singles 'We're Mad' (#4) and 'She Goes To Finos' (#4). Idle Gossip, the band's third album and an Indie Chart #12 is to be found on Disc Three and it includes the 'Geordie's Gone To Jail' hit single. Disc Four features 1987's Bare Faced Cheek LP with it's seminal 'Yul Brynner Was A Skinhead' opus! The fifth disc features 20 non-LP cuts by the band including their ultra-rare debut 45s, their contribution to the legendary Strength Thru Oi! Compilation plus the not so rare but very important UK National Chart #3 smash hit 'Nellie The Elephant'. The booklet includes notes on each of the albums plus pictures of all the sleeves whilst each disc comes in a cardboard wallet depicting the original artwork. All housed in a sturdy clam shell box!
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Theme Tune
2 Dig That Groove Baby
3 Dougy Giro
4 Spiders in the Dressing Room
5 Glenda and the Test Tube Baby
6 Up the Garden Path
7 Nellie the Elephant
8 Poor Davey
9 Stay Mellow
10 Queen Alexandra Road Is Where She Said SheâD Be, But Was She There to Meet Meâ.No Chance
11 Worse Things Happen at Sea
12 Blue Suede Shoes
13 Fiery Jack
14 Theme Tune
- Disc 2 -
1 A Far Out Theme Tune
2 She Goes to Finos
3 Razzmatazz Intro
4 Modern Schools of Motoring
5 Carol Dodds Is Pregnant
6 You and a Box of Handkerchiefs
7 Bless You My Son
8 My GirlfriendâS DadâS a Vicar
9 Come Back Jackie
10 Do You Want to Finishâ Or What?!
11 Commercial Break
12 Chartbuster / Razzmatazz Outro
13 WeâRe Mad
14 Wipe Out!
15 Florence Is Deaf (But ThereâS No Need to Shout)
16 A Far Out Theme Tune
- Disc 3 -
1 Idle Gossip
2 Do You Wanna Be Like Dougy Bell
3 The Lambrusco Kid
4 You WonâT Be Merry on a North Sea Ferry
5 Harry Cross (A Tribute to Edna)
6 GeordieâS Gone to Jail
7 Silly Billy
8 If YouâRe in a Pop Group YouâLl End Up Paying a Fortune Practicing at Peter PracticeâS
9 PC Stoker
10 I Tried to Trust Tracey
11 KeithâS a Thief
12 IâLl Get Even with Steven (Steve Is Tender)
- Disc 4 -
1 Bare Faced Cheek
2 Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead
3 How Do You Deal with Neal?
4 Howza Bouta Kiss Babe!
5 Fisticuffs in Frederick Street
6 A Diamond
7 Quick to Quit the Quentin
8 Nowt Can Compare to Sunderland Fine Fare
9 Neville Is a Nerd
10 Park Lane Punch Up
11 The Ashbrooke Launderetteâ YouâLl Stink, Your ClothesâLl Shrink, Your WhitesâLl Be Black As Ink
12 Bare Faced Cheek
- Disc 5 -
1 Tommy KoweyâS Car (Original 7Â Version)
2 She Goes to Finos (Original 7Â Version)
3 DeidreâS a Slag (Strength Thru Oi!)
4 She Goes to Finos (Strength Thru Oi!)
5 Tommy KoweyâS Car (Ep Version)
6 SheâS a Worky Ticket
7 Everybody Jitterbug
8 Teenager in Love / IâVe Got Asthma
9 Cheerio & Toodle Pip
10 H.O!
11 Alfie from the Bronx
12 Hanky Panky
13 DeidreâS a Slag (1984 Version)
14 Rupert the Bear
15 Nellie the Elephant (1984 Version)
16 Fisticuffs in Frederick Street
17 James Bond (Lives Down Our Street)
18 Olgaâ I Cannot
19 Griefsville
20 GeordieâS Gone to Jail (Japanese Version)
