Written By:
Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs
Publisher:
Warner Chappell
Production:
Engineer: Ian Catt
Producer: Saint Etienne
Companies
Recorded at: Cat Music, Croydon
Timing
Recorded: 1990
Released: Apr 19, 1993
Notes
"I knew Bob through the things he'd written about me in Melody Maker, so when they asked me to do something with them I thought they wanted me to sing. I think this might have been before Sarah joined. I can't remember. Anyway, we'd all heard the demo of The Osmonds by Denim and, aware of the '70s angle of it, we had the idea of trying to conjure some wistful nostalgia over the '80s." (Stephen Duffy, 1992)
Intended to be the screaming finale to 'Foxbase Alpha', the comic aspects of the 1980s turned into a show tune while out backs were turned. Eventually ended up on a Volume compilation. Dulcet tones courtesy of Stephen Duffy. (Bob Stanley December 1994)
"This was meant to be the centrepiece of Foxbase Alpha, our equivalent of Denim's I'm Against The Eighties. It was such a relief to get out of that decade, for plenty of reasons. But we didn't quite get the weight of the moment into the song. No fault of Stephen Duffy's, he gave it his best, but I suppose if you're going to namedrop Do The Hucklebuck you might not be taken very seriously."
(Bob Stanley 2016)
Credits
Vocals: Sarah Cracknell
Spoken Voice: Stephen Duffy
Guitar, Bass & Keyboards: Ian Catt
Keyboards: Bob Stanley
More Keyboards: Pete Wiggs
Sampled Sketch (Intro)
Peter Tork: I'm the dummy Micky. I'm always the dummy
Mickey Dolenz: You're right Pete. You're always the dummy. I forgot. I'm sorry.
Samples dialogue from the movie Head (1968)
Note: Intro for every version of Fake 88 except the one on the Volume Six compilation
What Stephen Duffy Said:
A scene from a film circa 1982. We drove down George Street, en route to Wendy's. Glenn Campbell was on the radio singing about cleaning his gun and dreaming of Galveston. "What's this?" she said. "It's Hall & Oates or nothing for me."
Of course, this was pre-House Nation and I asked her "What is anyone going to remember this decade for?" She paused for a second, then said: "Waffle cardigans, Wentworth jail, rah-rah skirts straight out of Hell, Andrew ??? and BMX bikes, Chernenko and miners' strikes, Nikky Kershaw and Red Ken, Peter Tatchell and Dirty Den, Mark King slapped his bass, and early issues of The Face, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Margaret Thatcher, Toto Coelo, and Spycatcher, E.T., Arthur, Elmo's Fire, not a patch on Billy Liar, Phil Redmond and Transformers, Tin-Tin Duffy in leg-warmers, Stu Damer, evil Tel, Roger Hebert, what a pal, Steven Waldorf, Jerry Gross, Do The Hucklebuck by Coast To Coast, Steve Blacknell on the telly, the classic beard of Altobelli, Leon Klinghofer, baby duck(?), blonde highlights, flourescent sock, Steve Lynex and Gordon Smith, Martin Fry grew a quiff, Haysi Fantayzee, Videotech, Shakey drove us crazy, what the heck, Hazel O'Connor in Breaking Glass, Gripper Stebson's in the class."
And I said, "I don't remember any of that. If you can remember the '80s you weren't there. Uh, you know, I remember Scott Crolla in his Furry Freak Brothers t-shirt, if that's anything."
Mixes
No mixes have been issued
