The Toy Dolls

Historia

Toy Dolls es un grupo británico de punk rock. Se formaron en 1979, actuando por primera vez en el Millview Social Club de Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, el 20 de octubre de 1979. Tras un par de actuaciones, el vocalista Pete Zulu abandonó la formación para crear su propia banda. Fue reemplazado por otro vocalista, Hud, quien también dejó el grupo tras una única actuación, convirtiendo a Toy Dolls en un trío con su guitarrista, Michael "Olga" Algar asumiendo el papel de vocalista. Sólo fue el comienzo del baile de baterías y bajistas que caracterizarían a Toy Dolls a lo largo de los años.
Rápidamente construyeron un grupo local de admiradores y se les consideró inicialmente un grupo Oi!, en plena emergencia en ese momento, aunque mucha gente opina que, a pesar de poseer unos coros característicos de la música Oi!, se les clasifica mejor como pop-punk. Otra razón de asociárseles con la movida Oi! es que fueron apoyados por Garry Bushell, muy involucrado con bandas Oi! como The Angelic Upstarts (a los cuales Toy Dolls acompañaron en su primera gira nacional). En 1980 un hombre de negocios local financió su primer sencillo, "Tommy Kowey's Car" con el tema "She Goes To Finos" en su cara B. Vendieron rápidamente sus primeras 500 copias, pero la banda no podía permitirse el lujo de editar más, haciendo de este disco una pieza de coleccionista.
En 1983 estrenaron su primer LP, "Dig That Groove Baby"; por aquel entonces y con la ayuda de Bushell comenzaron a atraerse la atención de prensa nacional, y en 1984 reventaron la lista de éxitos con su interpretación punk de «Nellie the Elephant», una clásica canción infantil, que alcanzó el número 4 en las listas británicas y que permaneció entre las 100 mejores durante no menos de 12 semanas.
Toy Dolls han continuado desde entonces con su eterno cambio de casas discográficas y formación, estableciendo bases de admiradores en Europa, Estados Unidos y Japón, publicando multitud de LP y sencillos que llevaron a Toy Dolls a lo que conocemos hoy en día.

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Discografía

01- Dig That Groove Baby (1983)

1. Theme Tune

2. Dig That Groove Baby

3. Dougy Giro

4. Spiders in the Dressing Room

5. Glenda and the Test Tube Baby

6. Up the Garden Path

7. Nellie the Elephant

8. Poor Davey

9. Stay Mellow

10. Queen Alexandra Road Is Where She Said She'd Be, But Was She There to Meet Me...No Chance

11. Worse Things Happen at Sea

12. Blue Suede Shoe

13. Fiery Jack

14. Theme Tune

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02- A Far Out Disc (1985)

1. A Far Out Theme Tune

2. She Goes to Finos

3. Razzmatazz Intro

4. Modern Schools of Motoring

5. Carol Dodds is Pregnant

6. You & a Box of Handkerchiefs

7. Bless You my Son

8. My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar

9. Come Back Jackie

10. Do You Want to Finish... Or What?!

11. Commercial Break

12. Chartbuster/Razzmatazz Outro

13. We're Mad

14. Wipe Out!

15. Florence is Deaf (But There's no Need to Shout)

16. A Far Out Theme Tune

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03- Idle Gossip (1986)

1. Idle Gossip

2. Do You Wanna Be Like Dougy Bell

3. The Lambrusco Kid

4. You Won't Be Merry on a North Sea Ferry

5. Harry Cross (a Tribute to Edna)

6. Geordie's Gone to Jail

7. Silly Billy

8. If You're in a Pop Group You'll End Up Paying a Fortune Practicing at Peter Practice's Practice Place

9. PC Stoker

10. I Tried to Trust Tracey

11. Keith's a Thief

12. I'll Get Even with Steven (Steve Is Tender)

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04- Bare Faced Cheek (1987)

1. Intro / Bare Faced Cheek

2. Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead

3. How Do You Deal with Neal?

4. Howza Bouta Kiss Babe??!

5. Fisticuffs in Frederick Street

6. Diamond

7. Quick to Quit the Quentin

8. Nowt Can Compare to Sunderland Fine Fare

9. Neville Is a Nerd

10. Park Lane Punch Up

11. Ashbrooke Laundrette (You'll Stink... Yer Clothes Shrink, Your ...)

12. Bare Faced Cheek (Reprise)

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05- Ten Years of Toys (1989)

1. Florence Is Deaf (But There's No Need to Shout)

2. Glenda and the Test Tube Baby

3. Idle Gossip

4. Carol Dodds Is Pregnant

5. Tommy Kowey's Car

6. Peter Practices Practice Place

7. Deirdre's a Slag

8. Blue Suede Shoes

9. Dig That Groove Baby

10. Lambrusco Kid

11. Dougy Giro

12. Bless You My Son

13. My Girlfriends Dad's a Vicar

14. She Goes to Finos

15. Harry Cross (a Tribute to Edna)

16. Fiery Jack

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06- Wakey Wakey! (1989)

1. Introduction

2. Wakey Wakey Intro

A. Lester Fiddled the Tax Man

4. Pot Belly Bill

5. One Night in Moscow (& We'll Be Russian Home!)

6. Cloughy Is a Bootboy !

7. Sabre Dance

8. Daveys Took the Plunge

9. There's a Trollop Up Elmwood Street

10. No Particular Place to Go

11. Poverty Pleadin' Peter

12. Blaze of the Borough

13. Wakey Wakey Outro

14. Goodnight Irene

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07- Twenty Two Tunes Live From Tokyo (Live) (1990)

1. Intro / Wakey Wakey

2. Dig That Groove Baby

3. Cloughy Is a Bootboy

4. Lambrusco Kid

5. I've Got Asthma

6. Peter Practice's Practice Place

7. Deirdre's a Slag

8. Ashbrooke Launderette

9. Bless You My Son

10. My Girlfriends Dad's a Vicar

11. Spiders in the Dressing Room

12. Popeye Medley

13. She Goes to Finos

14. Fisticuffs in Frederick Street

15. Harry Cross

16. Glenda and the Test Tube Baby

17. Wakey Wakey / Outro

18. When the Saints

19. Wipe Out

20. Nellie the Elephant

21. Sabre Dance

22. Blue Suede Shoes

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08- Fat Bob's Feet (1991)

1. Gloomy Intro / Toy Dolls Tonic

2. Fat Bob's Feet

3. We Quit the Cavalery

4. The Sphinx Stinks

5. Rodney's Memory

6. Olga Crack Corn

7. Bitten by a Bed Bug!

8. Kids in Tyne & Wear

9. Frankie's Got the Blues

10. A Bunch of O'Fairies

11. Yellow Burt

12. Back in '79

13. The Coppers Copt Ken's Cash!

14. Toy Dolls Tonic / Gloomy Outro

15. Turtle Crazy!

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09- Absurd-Ditties (1993)

1. Absurb-Ditties

2. I'm a Telly Addict

3. "Terry Talking"

4. Ernie Had a Hernia

5. Toccata in Dm

6. My Wife's a Psychopath!

7. Sod the Neighbours

8. Melancholy Margaret

9. Drooling Banjos

10. Alecs Gone

11. When You're Jimmy Saville

12. Caught Up the Reeperbahn!

13. Dez the Demon Decorator

14. Absurb-Ditties (End Bit)

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10- Orcastrated (1995)

1. Orcastrated (Intro)

2. Poltergeist in the Pantry

3. Please Release Me (Darling I Loathe You)

4. Taken for a Mug

5. Any Dream Will Do

6. Harry's Hands

7. David's XR2

8. Pot Luck Percy

9. Ivy's Lurid Lips

10. The Psychosurgery

11. Ron Dixon Dumped D-D

12. Lazy Sunday Afternoon

13. Bowling Barmy

14. Orcastrated (Outro)

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11- 1976-1996 - The History (1996)

CD 1

01- Idle gossip

02- Back in 79

03- Pot belly bill

04- Fisticuffs in frederick st.

06- P.C.Stocker

07- Alfie from the bronx

08- Lazy sunday afternoon

09- Stay mellow

10- When your jimmy saville

11- Tocatta in Dm

12- Alec's gone

13- The lambrusco kid

14- No particular place to go

15- Poor davey

16- Modern schools of motoring

17- Terry talking

18- Blue suede shoes

19- Olga crack corn

20- Sod the neighbours

CD 2

01- Dig that groove baby

02- Please release me

03- Silly billy

04- Hernie had a hernia

05- Sabre dance

06- Dougy giro

07- The sphinx stinks

08- She goes to finos

09- Rupert the bear

10- Glenda & the test tube baby

11- Harry's hands

12- James Bond lives down our street

13- Nellie the elephant

14- Spiders in the dressing room

15- Do you wanna be like dougy bell

16- Poltergeist in the pantry

17- Wakey wakey outro

18- I'm a telly addict

19- I'll get even with steven

20- Cloughy is a boot boy!

21- Bitten by a bed bug

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12- One More Megabyte (1997)

1. Mega Intro

2. One More Megabyte

3. I'm a Lonely Bastard

4. She's a Leech

5. Me 'n' John Williams

6. She'll Be Back With Keith Someday

7. I'm Gonna be 500 Miles

8. Bachelor Boy/When Gary Married Melanie

9. Fred Oliver

10. In Tommys Head

11. Bored Housewife

12. The Memory of Nobby

13. The Devil Went Down to Georgia Scunthorpe

14. Mega Outro

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13- On Stage In Stuttgart (Live) (1999)

1. Dig That Groove Theme Tune

2. The Lambrusco Kid

3. Idle Gossip

4. Back in '79

5. She's a Leech

6. I've Got Asthma

7. Sabre Dance

8. She'll Be Back With Keith Someday

9. Fisticuffs in Frederick St.

10. Bless You My Son

11 My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar

12. Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead

13. Wakey Wakey Theme Tune

14. Stay Mellow

15. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

16. Fiery Jack

17. Alec's Gone

18. I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles

19. She Goes to Fino's

20. Dig That Groove Baby

21. Raiders of the Lost Ark

22. Cloughy Is a Bootboy

23. Glenda and the Test Tube Baby

24. Dougy Giro

25. Nellie the Elephant

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14- Anniversary Anthems (2000)

1. Anniversary Waltz

2. My Baby Is A Battleaxe

3. Her With A Hoover

4. Alec's Back

5. Dorkamania

6. Audry's Alone At Last

7. Eine Kleine Nacht Music

8. Charlie's Watching

9. I Wish My Eyes Were Ernies

10. Livin' On Newton Hall

11. What She Had With Huey

12. I've Had Enough O' Magaluf

13. Livin' La Vida Loca

14. Anniversary Waltz

15. We're 21 Today

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15- Our Last Album? (2004)

1. Our Last Intro?

2. Death Of Barry The Roofer With Vertigo, The

3. Cheatin' Chick From China

4. Davey's Days

5. No One Knew The Real Emu

6. I Gave My Heart To A Slag Called Sharon From Whitley Bay

7. Jean's Been

8. Rita's Innocent

9. She's So Modern

10. Chenky Is A Puff

11. I Caught It From Camilla

12. Our Last Outro?

13. The Final Coun***

14. Tony Talks Tripe

15. Yul Brinner Was A Skinhead

16. Thank You To

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16- Treasured Toy Dolls Tracks Live (Live) (2006)

1. Dig That Groove Baby Theme Tune

2. Tommy Koweys Car

3. I've Had Enough O' Magaluf

4. Alec's Gone

5. Spiders In The Dressing Room

6. Cloughy Is A Bootboy

7. Ritas Innocent

8. You Won't Be Merry On A North Sea Ferry

9. Poor Davey

10. Tommy's Belly Waltz

11. I'm A Telly Addict

12. Terry Talkin'

13. Her With A Hoover

14. I Caught It From Camilla

15. Sod The Neighbours

16. Death Of Barry The Roofer With Vertigo

17. I Dig That Groove Baby

18. Idle Gossip

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17- The Album After The Last One (2012)

1. Olgamental Intro

2. Credit Crunch Christmas

3. Molly Was Immoral

4. Sciatica Sucks

5. B.E.E.R

6. Kevin's Cotton Wool Kids

7. Don't Drive Yer Car up Draycott Avenue

8. Dirty Doreen

9. Down at the Old 29

10. Marty's Mam

11. Gordon Brown Gets me Down

12. Decca's Drinking Dilemma

13. Olgamental Outro

14. Fiery Jack

15. Cloughy Is a Bootboy

16. The Sphinx Stinks

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