Fat Bob's Feet
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Fat Bob's Feet is a full-length album by the Punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Toy Dolls
Toy Dolls
The Toy Dolls are an English punk rock band formed in 1979. Departing from the angry lyrics and music often associated with punk rock, The Toy Dolls worked within the aesthetics of punk to express a sense of fun, with songs such as "Yul Brynner Was a Skinhead", "My Girlfriend's Dad's a Vicar" and...

. It is one of the more popular pieces recorded by the band and included such punk favourites as Bitten by a Bed Bug, The Sphinx Stinks and bonus single A-side Turtles Crazy! that wasn't included in original album tracklist. Kids In Tyne & Wear is the reworking of Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...

 classic Kids in America, one most often covered songs by the punk rock bands.
Fat Bob's Feet is a rare late The Toy Dolls album that doesn't contain any classic/symphony instrumental adaptation.

Track listing

All tracks by Michael Algar
  1. "Gloomy Intro/Toy Doll Tonic" – 0:55
  2. "Fat Bob's Feet!" – 2:46
  3. "We Quit the Cavalry" – 2:59
  4. "The Sphinx
    Sphinx
    A sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head or a cat head.The sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless...

     Stinks" – 2:18
  5. "Rodney's Memory" – 2:35
  6. "Olga Crack Corn
    Blue Tail Fly
    "Blue Tail Fly", "De Blue Tail Fly", or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is thought to be a blackface minstrel song, first performed in the United States in the 1840s that remains a popular children's song today....

    " – 1:09
  7. "Bitten by a Bed Bug" – 3:02
  8. "Kids In Tyne & Wear" – 3:15
  9. "Frankie's Got the Blues" – 2:35
  10. "A Bunch O' Fairies" – 2:43
  11. "Yellow Burt" – 1:05
  12. "Back in '79" – 2:51
  13. "The Coppers Copt Ken
    Ken Dodd
    Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE is a British comedian and singer songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or “fluff dom” and buck teeth or “denchers”, his favourite cleaner, the feather duster and his greeting "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off “Lots and Lots of Happiness!”...

    's Cash!" – 2:30
  14. "Toy Doll Tonic/Gloomy Outro" – 1:22
  15. "Turtle Crazy!" – 2:44

Personnel

  • Michael "Olga" Algar - vocals, guitar
  • John "K'Cee" Casey - bass, vocals
  • Martin "Marty" Yule - drums, vocals

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