Choices - The Singles Collection
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| Greatest hits album by The Blow Monkeys | ||||
| Released | 7 August 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1984–1989 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, new wave, dance | |||
| Label | RCA / Ariola / BMG | |||
| Producer | Dr. Robert Adam Moseley Peter Wilson Michael Baker & The Axeman Stephen Hague Juan Atkins Paul Witts/Egor |
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| The Blow Monkeys chronology | ||||
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Choices – The Singles Collection is a compilation album by British band The Blow Monkeys, released in 1989 by RCA and distributed by BMG / Ariola. The album includes most of the band's singles and features genres from the new wave of their debut album to pop rock and funky evolution, up to their discovery of the potentialities of the new dance revolution, a genre that they embraced on their final album, Springtime for the World, which was released the following year, shortly before they split up.
Two editions of the album were released: the vinyl version only included the first 10 songs (from "Wait" to "It Pays to Belong"), whereas the CD version contained six more songs, also presenting the singles from their 1984 debut album, Limping for a Generation, which didn't chart in the UK Top 75, as well as two 12" remixes of "Wait" and the title-track "Choice?", and the first single taken from their 1986 second album, "Forbidden Fruit", which also didn't make it into the UK charts - it was released a short time before the group obtained their very first smash hit with the single "Digging Your Scene", reaching number 12 in March 1986.
The album also includes their only UK Top Ten hit as a band, "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way", which reached number 5, in January 1987. The other big hit for the group was "Wait", reaching number 7 in January 1989, although the song was credited only to The Blow Monkeys' lead singer Dr Robert's real name, Robert Howard, along with Chicago house singer Kym Mazelle. "Wait" also appears on the band's fourth album, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, as well as Mazelle's album, Crazy.
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