Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood

About Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood

Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood was The Blow Monkeys' 1989 follow-up album to She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter, released two years before. The album, the fourth issued from the band, represented a further step towards the incorporation of more dancey elements, started with their third 1987 LP, especially with the UK hit "It Doesn't Have to Be That Way", which, getting to Number 5, made that their highest-charting song ever. The first single was "This Is Your Life", still a pop rock/new wave track, which didn't get higher than Number 70. The next version of the song, its 1989 remix, which turned it into a properly dance tune, fared much better, reaching Number 32 in Great Britain. After the flop of the second single, the politically oriented "It Pays to Belong", written following Dr. Robert's tradition of criticising England's political reality, which didn't enter the UK Top 75, the lead singer scored a hit together with soul singer Kym Mazelle, which reached Number 7. The album tracklist was quickly rejigged, "Wait" recredited as a Blow Monkeys song and included on the album, together with the more successful, reworked version of "This is Your Life". The original version was added to the CD version, and miscredited as a "1988 remix". more »