I Want Candy (album)

Not to be confused with the album of the same name by the Strangeloves.

I Want Candy
Compilation album by
Bow Wow Wow
ReleasedAugust 1982 (1982-08)
Recorded1981–1982
GenreNew wave[1]
Length32:48
LabelRCA Victor
Producer
Bow Wow Wow chronology
Teenage Queen
(1982) 		I Want Candy
(1982) 		Original Recordings
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB−[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Smash Hits7/10[5]

I Want Candy is an overseas compilation album by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow, released in August 1982 by RCA Records. Side one of the album consists of all four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's EP The Last of the Mohicans, and the band's recent hit "Baby, Oh No"; these tracks were produced by Kenny Laguna of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts fame. Side two consists of four tracks from Bow Wow Wow's debut album See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, and "El Boss Dicho", the B-side to the single "Go Wild in the Country".

Though RCA had previously issued The Last of the Mohicans in the United States, the label wished to release a full-length album to capitalize on the American success of the music video for the band's single "I Want Candy" on MTV. I Want Candy peaked at number 123 on the US Billboard 200.[6]

The cover photograph, a nude image of lead singer Annabella Lwin painted gold, was taken by Jim Varriale. The photograph was later reversed for the cover of the 2008 compilation album Love, Peace & Harmony – The Best of Bow Wow Wow.

I Want Candy is also the name of the UK edition of EMI's compilation of the band, which reached 26 on the UK album chart,[7] as well as 2003 two-disc Bow Wow Wow anthology from Castle Music's Sanctuary Records, and a 2007 three-track EP on Cleopatra Records, which also contained a cover of the Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".

  1. ^ "The 50 Best New Wave Albums". Paste. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. ^ Demalon, Tom. "I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "B". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved 17 August 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Bow Wow Wow". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 99–100. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  5. ^ Silverton, Peter (5–18 August 1982). "Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy". Smash Hits. Vol. 4, no. 16. p. 21.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Billboard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "I want candy | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.