Bow Wow Wow – Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984 (2018)

Cleverly titled and packaged with reference to the band’s cassette-only 1980 release, Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980-1984 bundles Bow Wow Wow’s recorded works in a compact clamshell box. The two proper albums, the rampaging See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy and only comparatively tame When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going, are expanded with contemporaneous 7″ and 12″ material. A third disc, titled “Singles, B-Sides & Remixes,” is based off the compilation I Want Candy and rounds up the rest, including Your Cassette Pet. Fully remastered according to the Cherry Red label, it’s a convenient, reasonably priced way to obtain the work of an exemplary new wave band who were…

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…modest only in the size of their catalog, and much more than a vehicle for manager Malcolm McLaren’s button-pushing antics. Since the ’80s, the band’s studio output has been underserved by a confusing multitude of budget and off-brand compilations. Although non-album selections are mastered from vinyl, Your Box Set Pet still renders the previous reissues and compilations obsolete due to its dutiful assembly and accompanying booklet.

Disc 1: See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! and remixes

1. Jungle Boy
2. Chihuahua
3. Sinner! Sinner! Sinner! (Prince Of Darkness)
4. Mickey Put It Down
5. I Am a TV Savage
6. Elimination Dancing
7. Golly! Golly! Go Buddy
8. King Kong
9. Go Wild In The Country
10. I Am Not a Know It All
11. Why Are Babies So Wise
12. Orang-Outang
13. Hello, Hello Daddy (I’ll Sacrifice You)
14. See Jungle (Jungle Boy) (7″ Re-Mix)
15. Chihuahua (12″ Version)
16. Prince Of Darkness (Single Version)
17. Go Wild In The Country (7″ Version)
18. (I’m a) TV Savage (7″ Re-Mix)
19. Elimination Dancing (New Version)
20. King Kong (New Version)
21. Prince Of Darkness (12″ Version)
22. Go Wild In The Country (12″ Version)
23. See Jungle (Jungle Boy) (12″ Re-Mix)

Tracks 1-13 released as RCA Victor RCALP 3000 (U.K.)/AFL1-4147 (U.S.), 1981
Tracks 14 and 18 from RCA single RCA220/PB 5491 (U.K.), 1982
Track 15 from RCA 12″ single RCAT144/PC 5417 (U.K.), 1981
Track 16 from RCA single RCA100/PB 5383 (U.K.), 1981
Track 17 from RCA single RCA175/PB 5450 (U.K.), 1982
Tracks 19-20 from Flexipop single 018 (U.K.), 1982
Track 21 from RCA 12″ single RCAT100/PC 5383 (U.K.), 1981
Track 22 from RCA 12″ single RCAT175/PC 5450 (U.K.), 1982
Track 23 from RCA 12″ single RCAT220/PC 5491 (U.K.), 1982

Disc 2: When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going and bonus tracks

1. Aphrodisiac
2. Do You Wanna Hold Me?
3. Roustabout
4. Lonesome Tonight
5. Love Me
6. What’s The Time (Hey Buddy)
7. Mario (Your Own Way To Paradise)
8. Quiver (Arrows In My)
9. The Man Mountain
10. Rikki Dee
11. Tommy Tucker
12. Love, Peace and Harmony
13. Aphrodisiac (7″ Re-Mix)
14. Do You Wanna Hold Me (USA 12″ Version)
15. Biological Phenomenon
16. Love, Peace and Harmony (USA Re-Mix)
17. I Want Candy (USA 12″ Re-Mix)
18. Aphrodisiac (12″ Version)
19. Love, Peace and Harmony (USA 12″ Re-Mix)
20. Where’s My Snake

Tracks 1-12 released as RCA Victor RCALP 6068/PL 25458 (U.K.)/AFL1-4570 (U.S.), 1983
Track 13 from RCA single 345 (U.K.), 1983
Track 14 from RCA 12″ promo single JD-13535 (U.S.), 1983
Track 15 from “Do You Wanna Hold Me” RCA 12″ single – RCAT314/PC 68047 (U.K.), 1983
Track 16 from RCA 12″ promo single JD-13595 (U.S.), 1983
Tracks 17 and 19 released as RCA 12″ single PD-13595 (U.S.), 1983
Track 18 from Aphrodisiac: Best Of – Camden 74321 41967-2 (U.K.), 1996
Track 20 from The Best of Bow Wow Wow – RCA 07863 66943-2 , 1996

Disc 3: EMI recordings and bonus tracks

1. C30 C60 C90 Go
2. Sun Sea and Piracy
3. Louis Quatorze
4. Gold He Said
5. Uomo-Sex-Al Apache
6. I Want My Baby On Mars
7. Sexy Eiffel Towers
8. Giant Sized Baby Thing
9. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
10. Radio G String
11. W.O.R.K. (N.N. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don’t)
12. C-30, C-60, C-90 Anda!
13. I Want Candy (Single Version)
14. El Boss Dicho
15. Baby, Oh No (Single Version)
16. Mile High Club (Original)
17. Louis Quatorze (Re-Record)
18. Teenage Queen
19. Joy of Eating Raw Flesh
20. Cowboy
21. Baby, Oh No (12″ Remix)
22. Sex (Instrumental)
23. W.O.R.K. (N.N. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don’t) (Special Remixed Disco Version)
24. Mile High Club (Re-Record)

Tracks 1-2 released as EMI single 5088 (U.K.), 1980
Tracks 3-10 released as Your Cassette Pet – EMI WOW 1 (U.K.), 1980
Tracks 11-12 released as EMI single 5153 (U.K.), 1981
Track 13 from RCA single RCA 238/PB 5503 (U.K.), 1982
Track 14 from “Go Wild In The Country” – RCA single RCA 175/PB 5450 (U.K.), 1982
Tracks 15 and 20 released as RCA Victor single PB-13291 (U.S.), 1982
Track 16 from EMI single 5304 (U.K.), 1982
Tracks 17 and 24 from I Want Candy – RCA Victor PL 14375 (U.K.)/AFL1-4375 (U.S.), 1982
Track 18 from RCA single RPS-73 (Japan), 1982
Track 19 from “Chihuahua” – RCA 12″ single RCAT144/PC 5417 (U.K.), 1981
Track 21 from RCA 12″ single PD-13306 (U.S.), 1982
Track 22 from “Fools Rush In” – EMI single 5344 (U.K.), 1982
Track 23 from EMI 12″ single 12 EMI 5153 (U.K.), 1981