Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "F" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

and this thread just made it worse ..

"Cheeba Cheeba .. "

Fischer Z - John Watts' band. Made one of the greatest/creepiest singles ever with 'So Long' :

"When I read your letter I couldn't believe that you'd gone.
I dialed your number but no one answered the phone.
I asked your friends to tell me if they knew where you were,
they said they thought you were ill.
I hired a detective to try and find out where you are.
He managed to trace you, I know that you are living in France.
A watchman saw you climb into someone else car and drive off
laughing in the night. Why didn't you tell me? Not leave me this way.
You should have warned me and not waited for so long.

Fancy were a fairly dire Euro Hi-NRG act from around 82-84. No hidden gems there, I don't think (and I speak as someone with a great fondness for Euro Hi-NRG).

Fatback - as opposed to The Fatback Band - were the early 80s soul/funk incarnation responsible for two UTTER classics: the ecstatic "I Found Lovin" and the message-laden "Is This The Future".

Frank Chickens: arty-but-accessible Japanese female pop duo, who I saw once at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. "We Are Ninja (Not Geisha)" is FAB and deserves to be revived in a major way.

Fun Fun - early Italo-disco/Hi-NRG female duet (Crissy & Natalie - WHY DO I REMEMBER this stuff?). Two big European hits: "Happy Station" and "Colour My Love". Best of the lot is the mental Scratch Mix of "Happy Station", which cuts the original song up to fine effect.

The Funky Worm - rather limp disco-house from Sheffield, trendy for about 5 minutes in 1988, which promised far more than it delivered. Best left on the shelf.

Fatback, of course -- they cut one of the earliest ever rap records, "King Tim III (Celebrity Jock)." A solid if workmanlike R&B act.

Richard Dimples Fields cut one of the best doggin' around records of the '80s, "Your Wife Is Cheatin' On Us." Funny and soulful. Weirdly, I used to have a copy of his first album that had been mis-pressed, so side one was fields, and side two was Maggie and Terre Roche...

Is the Foxy you mention on TK? If so, their "Get Off" is a Miami Disco classic. If it's a different Foxy, well, never mind.

'Hustle! To The Music' is as good as anything released on Rhythm King. mind you I haven't heard it since it was in the charts.

And I did indeed mean Ish of pre-Company B fame '70s rock-funk-disco "Get Off" Foxy (who actually preceded "Get Off" with an earlier disco hit with the words "get off" in its title -- true story!)

Weren't Fatback and Fatback Band one and the same? At any rate, yeah, the album I have is the one with their pre-"Rapper's Delight" "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" on it.

Figures On A Beach: lightweight '80s Boston new wave who always showed up on those Sire alterna-compliations. Keyboardist Chris Ewen was subsequently the non-Magnetic Fields guy in Future Bible Heroes.

I bought a European Fischer Z CD compilation not too long ago. They had some good stuff I suppose but I wouldn't mind getting rid of it.

Agnetha Faltskog's Top 40 single in the early 80's was ace - was it "I Know There's Something Going On"? Or was that Frida? Don't have time to look it up at the moment.

Fatback = Fatback Band, yes.

And if you're an Ish fan, do you remember Oxo? One amazing single, "Whirly Girl," which I nearly wore out back in the day.

Nope, but it is the album (their self-titled one) that includes that song (see definition of 12-inch vinyl on, um, the B thread or somewhere.) Oddly, I still think of them as a Detroit band (since that's where they started, though I assume it was really Royal Oak or somewhere) not a Boston band. I am not really sure what inspired me to keep the album though. Maybe they reminded me of Book of Love??

As for Ish, yep, I totally remember Oxo, and there was a really good CD career compilation of the guy (including one disc of good new stuff) that came out early this year. Didn't include most of the rockier stuff from Foxy's great great great *Party Boys* LP, though.

I can recite the chorus lyrics in my mouth but I can't type them out!

Also, Fatback "Freak the Freak the funk"!

Three hits actually: "Baila Bolero"

http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/oswald_john/mystery_tapes/X1%20Version/track%2002-japanese%20pop.mp3

1) they're total foxes! (also i seem to recall reading that one of them was a replacement for an earlier singer, or was eventually replaced? not sure which)

http://stat.discogs.com/A/36214-001.jpg

2) the standard-issue lengthy instrumental breakdown portion of the "scratch" mix of "happy station" has these UNREAL escalating synth figures and then a really great scratching part that in and of itself is surely one of the greatest breakin' joints evah

3) they have three COMPLETELY DIFFERENT songs named, respectively, "give me love," "give me your love," and "gimme your loving"

4) "baila bolero" is tops too - "you took my heart, hasta luego!"

(Only thing I know about them is that they're an obscure New Wave group.)

"World Dance Party", though, I *have* heard before. Very catchy and fun and, well, danceable. The Fools seem to sorta live up to their band name in not really taking themselves all too seriously, which translates into some mighty catchy stuff that makes you smile. I think. Anyway, yeah, this one I've heard before. (BTW, why on Earth did I use {} instead of () or []? Oh well. Sometimes I confound myself.)

Ooh. I'm extremely glad I'm listening to "World Dance Party" now. This stuff is just what I needed now, something exuberant and lively.

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I used to lump "Psycho Chicken" in with other joke novelty "rock" songs like Blotto's "Metalhead" and Steve Brosky's "Do the Dutch."

I guess. A bit more humor than was apparent with The Knack. This was pre-everyone laughing at "My Sharona" because they can't get Weird Al's "My Balogna" out of their head. A tad heavier-sounding than The Knack.

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to the nth power

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http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/nagikokiyohara/MOAR.jpg

F U K

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Nicely done.

quick somebody take a screenshot!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

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