Wake Up Boo!: C/D?

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My life seemed to be better when I spent too much time making up shitty C/D's.

So... Yay! Summer! - OR - GRAH! Chris Evans!

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

in february 1995 i saw its point. shame about the album though.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

oh but thge albums are a funny thing with them, take 'waking up' -
'reaching out from here' - genuine, heartfelt, despairing, classic.
'it's lulu' - upbeat, huggable, poptastic, classic.
'wake up boo' - clearly the single of the year that year cept pulp.
the rest - bloody awful. esp. that one about 'drinking in the mixer with mark and keith' or however it goes. (shudders)

the *next* album suffers likewise - opening minute of 'bullfrog green' before they all start going 'whoah-woah-woah' is ...just...
*amazing* pop music.. astonishing ! then 'meltin's worm' is great too.
apart from that it's pretty rub.

who's heard 'kingsize' ?
all of you prob.
i'm imagining it's yet another boostyle
25 % great-but-the-
rest-is-lousy-caper.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 21 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Wake Up took it to a whole new level, though, what with being dazzlingly inconsistent within the songs as well as between them. It's as if they wrote 30 one-minute movements, divided them into "great," "passsable," and "embarrassing," then shot for an even distribution across each track.

(I actually love the pop portion of "Charles Bukowski is Dead" -- i.e. "drinking a the mixer, etc." -- but its wrap-up is horrifying. Similarly there about six bits to "Joel" that I like, and each quickly devolves into tedium before coming back to another good bit.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

(chuckles) well if that doesnt sum them up
i dunno what does.
'bullfrog...' is just like that - annoying,
then ace, then really ace, then really annoying.
why couldn't they ...sit still for 3 and a half minute.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 21 November 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I like all that chaos! It's fun! Actually I think I like the Boos more than the band itself did, considering I've been crazy enough to put together that 4 CD comp of all the B-sides and rarities.

"Wake Up! Boo" itself -- hey, I liked it. Nice horns. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it a whole lot. POssibly it helps that I was actually of an age to be watching kids' television when it was on the BBC adverts. also I didn't hear it at all for about five years afterwards so I came back to it as something pleasingly almost-new and liked it again.

C'mon Kids! is way better than Wake Up! as a record, I think, although I really luv It's Lulu.

who's heard the new Brave Captain album, then? thoughts?

― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 21 November 2002 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned is OTM. Wake Up Boo!, obnoxious as it is, introduced me to possibly my favouritest band ever. The b-sides on that single are as important as the song itself. Especially "Blues for George Michael".

EVERYTHING THEY EVER DID WAS ACE EXCEPT FOR:
It's Lulu
Towards the Light
Barney and Me
Crushed
What's In The Box
and all the bits off of Kingsize that verge on Christian pop. It does have some really nice bits but it depresses me cos I know they were soon to split after that release.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 November 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"C'mon Kids! is way better than Wake Up!"
I agree.

One Last Hurrah is my favorite.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

All I've got are those two. (Wake up & C'mon Kids)
Should I get the others when I find 'em?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

get Giant Steps as it's the best thing ever.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Wake Up! has STUCK ON AMBER which is My Life Set To Music (although it wasn't really in 1995) and is consequently the most terrifying thing ever. It's ace, though, and Wake Up Boo! is better still. I agree with everything everyone has written on this thread, only I basically love all of the last four albums and will not be bullied into Loving One Most and Finding One A Bit Shit/Overrated, Really. Though concede that Kingsize a fraction less stardust than the others. Still wonderful, however.

― alexfack, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

wake up boo is classic. 'joel' is the best song and really there is only one dud the vh-1 closer 'wilder' but since it is the last song it is easy to skip. martin carr was a god, now he's one of the worst things going, the new brave captain cd is incredibly awful. sice's solo album was better. 'c'mon kids' is the best boos album because it has 'four saints' on it which is like 19 great songs in one.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It's classic for sure and yet probably not as good as the 2 albums either side - Giant Steps and C'mon Kids. It's sold loads and was number one and on the surface is pretty much a pop album but I'll bet a lot of people who bought it don't have a stranger album in their collection (due to the afore mentioned inability to sit still which for me, as Ned says, is one of the wonderful things about the Boos).

I'm still buying the Brave Captain stuff and quite like the new record, there are some really good songs in there in amongst all the link tracks. Going to see him live on Monday so hoping for great stuff since the first time I saw him he was brilliant.

― mms (mms), Friday, 22 November 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

is 'kingsize' pop though can anyone say ?

― piscesboy, Friday, 22 November 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Not a single dud call on the thread so far, what's going on?

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 22 November 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I've only heard the single, but hey, a classic.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it started to get pretty dud after the 10000th time I heard it being played.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

you've listened to a boo radleys album four times a day for the last seven years? treat yourself to a mars bar!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 25 November 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Boo Radleys named most 'feel good' song

Monday, September 3 2007, 17:06 BST
By Alex Fletcher

The Boo Radleys' hit 'Wake Up Boo' has been named the most feel good song of all time by a mathematical formula.

The 1995 number nine summer anthem by the Britpop rockers was given the accolade by Dr Thomas Chamorro-Premuzixm, a psychology lecturer at Goldsmiths College.

Using a formula which calculates the pitch, positive lyrics, tonality, beats per minute, serotonin levels and images associated with the music, he created a top ten list of the most feel good hits.

Also on the list were hits by the Beach Boys, the Jackson 5 and The Darkness.

Chamorro-Premuzic said: "Film composers use music to intensify the mood of a scene to affect the viewer's emotions and there is a formula to this."

― blueski, Monday, 3 September 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

wake up boo makes me want to slit my wrists. was just everywhere that summer, especially bad being adopted by the radio 1 breakfast show (chris evans?) and blasted all over.

and they did it acoustically on radcliffe's show and it was loverly.

― koogs, Monday, 3 September 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Poo Radleys

― PhilK, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

"positive lyrics": "But you can't blame me for the death of summer... you have to put the death in everything"

PhilK - Phuk off.

― the next grozart, Monday, 3 September 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Whoever wakes up with a hangover upon hearing that song may disagree.

However, it is a great song. I love this kind of extremely uplifting happy, happy songs with singalong choruses and all. The world needs more of them.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 3 September 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

As I recall, isn't that whole album full of happy sounding songs that, when you actually read the lyrics, turn out to be pretty depressing?

― dlp9001, Monday, 3 September 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Martin Carr posted these two to the Brave Captain message board. Basically he's being ripped off. The first lot asked permission which he refused, they did a rip off version anyway and then claimed it was nothing like Wake Up Boo! as did some musicologist. Seems pretty clear cut to me

Phillipino Nescafe advert - mp3

Martin:"Another bunch of people who asked if they could use it and then decided it would be cheaper for them to steal it. "

Australian TV titles - youtube

― cheasyweasel, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

And Dan you're right, it's only happy on the surface, the lyrics tell a different story.

― cheasyweasel, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

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