The Month of Mauz...Grebo Rock

 

Pop Will Eat Itself formed in 1986 around Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. Original members include: Clint Mansell - vocals, guitar; Adam Mole - guitar, keyboards; Richard March - bass: & Graham Crabb - vocals, drums. They first chose the name Wild & Wandering but after a few months (& one EP - 2,000 Light Ales from Home) they changed their name to Pop Will Eat Itself. At this time they played short, fast, psychedelic-tinged punk-pop tunes. Before the release of Box Frenzy in late 1987, they had begun incorporating house / hip hop beats & samples. They are the kings of Grebo. 

 

Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy, Rough Trade ROUGH US 33CD, 1987.
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Grebo Guru    
Beaver Patrol
Let’s Get Ugly    
U.B.L.U.D.
Inside You    
Evelyn    
There is No Love Between Us Anymore    
She’s Surreal    
Intergalactic Love Mission    
Love Missile F1-11    
Hit the Hi-Tech Groove    
Razorblade Kisses (for all you vinyl heads, I re-instated the locked groove missing on the CD release.. You can make it any length your heart desires)

 

 

 

After Box Frenzy, PWEI signed with RCA. In 1989 they released their second full-length, This is the Day...This is the Hour...This is This!. The new release added a clever union of rock synth, Dub, & electronic music.

 

 

Pop Will Eat Itself - This is the Day...This is the Hour...This is This!, RCA 9742-2-R, 1989.

PWEI is a Four Letter Word    
Preaching to the Perverted
Wise Up! Sucker (Flood mix)
Sixteen Different Flavours of Hell    
Inject Me    
Can U Dig It?
The Fuses Have Been Lit    
Poison to the Mind    
Def.Con.One (Flood mix)
Radio P.W.E.I.
Shortwave Transmission on 'Up to the Minuteman Nine'    
Satellite Ecstatica    
Not Now James, We're Busy...
Wake Up! Time to Die...    
Wise Up! Sucker (12" Youth mix)

For their next release, PWEI went for an even more electronic, slightly darker, moodier sound.

 

Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure for Sanity, RCA 2485-2-R, 1990.

The Incredible P.W.E.I. vs the Moral Majority    
Dance of the Mad Bastards    
88 Seconds... & Still Counting    
X Y & Zee    
City Zen Radio 1990/2000 FM    
Dr. Nightmare's Medication Time
Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina (Extra Time mix)    
1000x No!    
Psychosexual    
Axe of Men    
Another Man's Rhubarb    
Medicine Man Speak with Forked Tongue    
Nightmare at 20,000 FT    
Very Metal Noise Pollution    
92°F (the 3rd Degree)
Lived in Splendour: Died in Chaos    
The Beat That Refused to Die    
X Y & Zee (Sensory Amplification mix)

 

 

 

Their last release on RCA was The Looks or the Lifestyle in 1992. Fuzz Townsend joined as drummer. With the addition of a live drummer, with Kerry 'The Buzzard' Hammond on guitar & Garry Hughes on keyboards, the band deserted their hard-electric style for a more grungy, alt-rock sound. This is the RCA Japan issue with three bonus tracks...

 

 

Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks or the Lifestyle?, RCA BVCP233, 1992.

England's Finest    
Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me    
Mother    
Get the Girl + Kill the Baddies    
I've Always Been a Coward, Baby    
Token Drug Song    
Karmadrome    
Urban Futuristic (Son of South Central)    
Pretty Pretty    
I Was a Teenage Grandad    
Harry Dean Stanton    
Bulletproof    

bonus tracks -    
Bulletproof (Adrian Sherwood remix)
Dread Alert in Karmadrome    
PWEI-Zation

 

 

 

In 1996, PWEI for all intents & purposes called it a day. Individual members went on to other projects. In 2005 the band attempted to regroup with a tour & new songs planned but the reunion never amounted to anything permanent. In 2010, Graham Crabb put together an new group of musicians under the P.W.E.I. banner & began touring. They released New Noise Designed by a Sadist.

 

 

 

Hoping you see these, mauz.
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