Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

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Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
Tom Tom Club - Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom CD album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Tom Tom Club
Released1988
StudioCompass Point Studios, Bahamas; Sigma Sound Studios, New York City
GenreNew wave
Length39:40
Label
Producer
Tom Tom Club chronology
Close to the Bone
(1983) 		Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
(1988) 		Dark Sneak Love Action
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic2/5 stars[1]
Robert ChristgauC+[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music2/5 stars[3]
Los Angeles Times3/5 stars[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide3/5 stars[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide2.5/5 stars[6]

Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom is an album by Tom Tom Club, released in 1988.[7][8] It includes a cover of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale", with David Byrne, Lou Reed, and Jerry Harrison.[4] The track "Suboceana" was released as a single in the UK in late 1988 and received some radio airplay. In the US, a 12-inch (5 track maxi-)single of the song was released, which featured a remix by Marshall Jefferson, and contains the track "Devil, Does Your Dog Bite". That song is a bonus (track 11) on the Japanese issue of the album that has the original 10 songs (like the European 1988 issue).

Production[]

The band began working on the album in 1986, and eventually spent two months recording it.[9]

Critical reception[]

Trouser Press preferred the US version of the album, writing that it "is as much fun for as deep as you care to listen."[10] The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "forced" and "hollow-sounding."[6] The Los Angeles Times called it "a fluffy funkasonic fun house that serves as a fine complement to the Heads’ more arty melanges."[4] The Rough Guide to Rock deemed the songs "polite white soul arrangements."[11]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, except where noted.

  1. "Suboceana" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Laura Weymouth) – 4:53
  2. "Shock the World" – 3:51
  3. "Don't Say No" – 4:30
  4. "Challenge of the Love Warriors" (Frantz) – 3:07
  5. "Femme Fatale" (Lou Reed) – 2:48
  6. "Born for Love" – 4:24
  7. "Broken Promises" – 3:45
  8. "She Belongs to Me" (Bob Dylan) – 4:03
  9. "Little Eva" – 4:00
  10. "Mighty Teardrop" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Laura Weymouth) – 4:13

US/Canada (1989) track listing[]

The album was heavily revised for issue in the US and Canada. Three tracks of the original 1988 issue were dropped ("Born for Love", "Broken Promises" and "Mighty Teardrop"), while four new tracks were added ("Call of the Wild", "Kiss Me When I Get Back", "Wa Wa Dance" and "I Confess").

  1. "Call of the Wild" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Mark Roule, Gary Pozner) mixed by Gary Wilkinson
  2. "Kiss Me When I Get Back" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Mark Roule, Gary Pozner) mixed by Louis Scalise
  3. "Wa Wa Dance" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Mark Roule, Gary Pozner) mixed by Gary Wilkinson
  4. "I Confess" (Tina Weymouth, Frantz, Mark Roule, Gary Pozner) mixed by David Sussman
  5. "Challenge of the Love Warriors"
  6. "Suboceana"
  7. "Don't Say No"
  8. "Shock the World"
  9. "Little Eva"
  10. "Femme Fatale"
  11. "She Belongs to Me" (on CD version only) mixed by Mark Roule

Personnel[]

  • Tina Weymouth – bass, keyboards, rhythm guitar, vocals; harmonium on "Femme Fatale"
  • Chris Frantz – drums, keyboards, percussion, front cover painting
  • Mark Roule – guitar, background vocals
  • Gary Pozner – keyboards, drum programming, percussion, background vocals
  • Laura Weymouth – background vocals
  • Wally Badarou – Synclavier on "Challenge of the Love Warriors" and Bell keyboards on "Broken Promises"
  • Steve Scales – bongos, percussion on "Challenge of the Love Warriors"
  • Jerry Harrison – keyboards, background vocals on "Femme Fatale"
  • Lou Reed – guitar, background vocals on "Femme Fatale"
  • David Byrne – guitar, background vocals on "Femme Fatale"
  • Eddie Martinez – guitar on "Born for Love"
  • Jay Berliner – Spanish guitar on "Broken Promises"
  • Glenn Rosenstein – rhythm guitar on "Born for Love", keyboards on "She Belongs to Me"
  • Heidi Berg – violin on "Little Eva"
  • Coco Arnesen Roule – vocals on "Call of the Wild"
  • Tiny Valentine – vocals on "Wa Wa Dance"

Engineered and mixed by Glenn Rosenstein
Additional engineering by Mark Roule and Steven Stanley

Chart performance[]

The album spent 11 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #114 in May 1989.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom – Tom Tom Club – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Tom Tom Club". Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 8: MUZE. p. 202.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "TOM TOM CLUB : "Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom." Reprise ***: Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor) t o five stars (a classic)". Los Angeles Times. May 21, 1989.
  5. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1121.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 710.
  7. ^ Pareles, Jon (September 11, 1988). "Review/Music; Rock, By Tom Tom Club (Published 1988)" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ^ Stratton, Jeff (September 27, 2001). "Fresh Air". Miami New Times.
  9. ^ RIGHI, LEN. "TALKING HEADS' CHRIS FRANTZ DRUMMING UP INTEREST IN TOM TOM CLUB". mcall.com.
  10. ^ "Tom Tom Club". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  11. ^ Buckley, Peter (February 8, 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Billboard 200: Tom Tom Club". Billboard.com. Billboard. 2017. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
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