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01. FAMILY FODDER - Darling
02. FAMILY FODDER - Symbols
03. FAMILY FODDER - Savoir Faire
04. FAMILY FODDER - Cold Wars
05. FAMILY FODDER - Monkey
06. FAMILY FODDER - Wrong
07. FAMILY FODDER - Love Song
08. FAMILY FODDER - Organ Grinder
09. FAMILY FODDER - Bass Adds Bass
10. FAMILY FODDER - Cerf Volant
11. FAMILY FODDER - Philosophy
12. FAMILY FODDER - Banana
13. FAMILY FODDER - Film Music (taken from Film Music 7")
14. FAMILY FODDER - Dinosaur Sex (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
15. FAMILY FODDER - Silence (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
16. FAMILY FODDER - Dazomo (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
17. FAMILY FODDER - Emergency (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
18. FAMILY FODDER - Better Lies (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
19. FAMILY FODDER - Tea With Dolly (taken from Schizophrenia Party 12")
20. FAMILY FODDER - The Big Dig (taken from The Big Dig 7")
21. FAMILY FODDER - Plant Life (taken from The Big Dig 7")
22. FAMILY FODDER - Room (taken from Film Music 7")
ARTIST
TITLE
Monkey Banana Kitchen
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STAUB 130CD STAUB 130CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/4/2014

Staubgold proudly presents the legendary first album from 1980 by UK underground heroes Family Fodder, for the first time reissued on CD. The CD version comes as a lovingly-assembled compilation (total running time: 79:52 minutes). It features the complete Monkey Banana Kitchen LP, the 12" EP Schizophrenia Party (1981) and the 7" singles Film Music (1981) and The Big Dig (1982), all originally released on Fresh Records. Guest musicians include This Heat's Charles Bullen on drums, guitar, vocals, percussion and viola. Wire magazine listed Monkey Banana Kitchen among their "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)" and wrote: "A loose collection of friends and, more often than not, wanderers, Family Fodder reached their apex (or at least one of them) with Monkey Banana Kitchen. The music took the ferocity of contemporaneous British punk and scaled it way back. They also eschewed the giant pop hook, replacing it with the hoop jumping of songs in three languages, instruments played for only four seconds, harmonic call-and-response motifs and opaque but symbolic political lyrics. Multiple reprises of phrases and fragments result in a much more subtle and effective memory-tickle. I can't count how many instruments finally made it onto the album, though piano (providing much of the rhythm), melodica, sax, synth and cowbell dominate. Their integrated eclecticism is actually layer after thin layer of dub, jazz and New Wave -- peering down into this music, you detect traces of structural complexity, and the pop that's there blurs. Lesson #537 from Fodder members: participate only when absolutely necessary -- knowing when to pare down makes it easier to transcend."