Bow Wow Wow Songs Ranked

Bow Wow Wow is an English new wave band, created by manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980. McLaren recruited members of Adam and the Ants to form the band behind 13-year-old Annabella Lwin on vocals. They released their debut EP Your Cassette Pet in 1980 and had their first UK top 10 hits with “Go Wild in the Country” in 1982. The band’s music was characterized by a danceable new wave sound that drew on a Burundi beat provided by Dave Barbarossa on drums, as well as the subversive, suggestive, and sometimes exuberant lyrics sung and chanted by their teenage lead vocalist. In 1980, former Sex Pistols manager McLaren persuaded David Barbarossa (also known as Dave Barbe), guitarist Matthew Ashman and bassist Leigh Gorman to leave Adam Ant and form a new group under McLaren’s management. The band embarked on a six-month audition process for a lead singer. Here are all of Bow Wow Wow songs ranked.

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8. Louis Quatorze (I Want Candy, 1982)

“Just good enough. As is typical of so many Bow Wow Wow tracks, it’s the guitar riff that makes it. The rumbling tumbling drums are there as always and still satisfying, but they are just the starch which provides the foundation for the guitar sauce.”

7. See Jungle (See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, 1981)

“This is the first song on their first full length record <<See Jungle See Jungle Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over Go ApeCrazy!>> I remember putting the needle on the record and hearing that first twangy guitar lick and thinking this was a hoe down or a hillbilly jamboree for a minute, they captivated me.”

6. (I’m A) TV Savage (See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, 1981) (See Jungle! See Jungle! G

“This is one of Bow Wow Wow’s greatest songs, and it is quite probably the greatest set of lyrics that Malcolm Mclaren ever wrote – for it was he, as the manager/Svengali behind Bow Wow Wow, who wrote the lyrics for their first run of singles and their first album, which this was on. This is a song about setting out to – as William S. Burroughs said once – storm the reality studio! smash the reality machine! that turns into a song about RUNNING the reality studio (T.V-land) and creating your own reality and inflicting it on the world.”

5. Baby, Oh No! (I Want Candy. 1982)

“nabella still looks and sounds darn good. Saw her as part of an 80s tour that came to my town with Howard Jones and several other bands. I think her voice has actually gotten better. She’s a bit bigger than she was then, but still sexy as hell.”

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4. C30, C60, C90 (I Want Candy. 1982)

“Truly brilliant slice of early New Wave which is not ashamed to show off its Punk heritage. The tribal drums may have been initially brought to the scene by Adam Ant, still his songs never captured the nervous, chaotic nerve of real New Wave… but he was New Romantics anyway. No, it doesn’t sound like a threat when Annabella goes “My cassette’s just like a bazooka…”, it’s rather adding fun to the overall over the top attitude of the song. C’30, C’60, C’90 Go would remain Bow Wow Wow’s best single. One that is always a pleasure returning to.”

3. Go Wild in the Country (See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, 1981)

“I love the energy expressed in this song. Really fun. I was recently reminded of this tune listening to Radio 6 and needed to hear a few dozen more times!”

2. Do You (When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going, 1983)

“You could dismiss Bow Wow Wow as a silly novelty act. And you may be largely correct. But there’s something magical about this song that stops me in my tracks every time I hear it. It’s clearly very much of it’s time, yet somehow timeless as well in a Spector-ish sort of way. Heavenly pop music.”

1. Bow Wow (The Best of Bow Wow Wow, 1989)

“Lot of great songs on this album in the bands unique style – sort of pop/punk. Lacks their most popular song, Annabella sounds sexy and fun throughout the disc and sings with a sexual attitude that belies her age. ‘I Want Candy’ and some others but I have been unable to find any album by Bow Wow Wow that has everything – this comes the closest.”