When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (album)

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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
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Studio album by
Bow Wow Wow
Released1983 (1983)
StudioBasing Street (London)
GenreNew wave
Length35:21
LabelRCA
ProducerMike Chapman
Bow Wow Wow chronology
Original Recordings
(1982) 		When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
(1983) 		The Best of Bow Wow Wow
(1989)

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going is the second studio album by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow, released in 1983 by RCA Records. The album was produced by Mike Chapman. It is the final album featuring all four original members of the band.

The cover photography was by David Bailey, and the album credits gave "a kiss" to James Honeyman-Scott and John Belushi,[1] both of whom had recently died.

On 25 May 2018, Cherry Red Records released the three-disc set Your Box Set Pet (The Complete Recordings 1980–1984), which included When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going in its entirety on the second disc, plus eight bonus tracks.[2]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide1/5 stars[4]
Smash Hits8/10[5]
The Village VoiceC+[6]

Smash Hits writer Kimberley Leston commented that When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going finds Bow Wow Wow playing "with even more haughty panache than usual."[5] Robert Christgau was more critical in The Village Voice, saying that "Mike Chapman adds few if any hooks and Annabella Lwin shockingly little verve to their pattering Afrobeats."[6]

In a retrospective review, Tom Demalon of AllMusic called the album "a well-polished, well-executed effort that holds some surprises mainly in the fact that there is more diversity than on prior Bow Wow Wow records."[3] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed it "slick" and "empty."[4]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Matthew Ashman, David Barbarossa, Leigh Gorman and Annabella Lwin.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Aphrodisiac"2:58
2."Do You Wanna Hold Me?"3:14
3."Roustabout"2:20
4."Lonesome Tonight"2:47
5."Love Me"3:28
6."What's the Time (Hey Buddy)"3:06
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Mario (Your Own Way to Paradise)"2:54
2."Quiver (Arrows in My)"3:14
3."The Man Mountain"2:26
4."Rikki Dee"3:02
5."Tommy Tucker"2:44
6."Love, Peace and Harmony"2:50
Total length:35:21

Charts[]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7] 24
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[8] 24
US Billboard 200[9] 83

References[]

  1. ^ When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (liner notes). Bow Wow Wow. RCA Records. 1983. RCALP 6068.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Sinclair, Paul (27 March 2018). "Bow Wow Wow / Your Box Set Pet: The Complete Recordings 1980–1984". Super Deluxe Edition. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Demalon, Tom. "When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going – Bow Wow Wow". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 78.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Leston, Kimberley (3–16 March 1983). "Bow Wow Wow: When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going". Smash Hits. Vol. 5 no. 5. p. 41.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Christgau, Robert (31 May 1983). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Bow Wow Wow – When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Bow Wow Wow – When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Bow Wow Wow Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

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