Request: 1000 MEXICANS - Music While You Work

Original recordings 1983-1986
Compilation CD Still Music 1993



"1000 Mexicans were one of the most innovative and creative independent bands of the 1980s, combining quality pop songwriting and rhythmic and harmonic richness with their unique touches of experimentalism and eccentricity. Described by one journalist as 'the musical equivalent of the 70s Dutch team with their total football', the trio of Julian Griffin, Michael Harding and Andrew Hobday exchanged vocal and instrumental duties at the drop of a sombrero, 'mixing melody and mayhem in equal measure'. Their first single The Art of Love provoked Melody Maker reviewer Adam Sweeting to enthuse 'The way things are going it won't be long before 1000 Mexicans are the best band in the world'. They went on to release 4 more singles including the classic The Last Pop Song and Under Construction, a hit in Spain and Portugal, as well as the LP Dance like Ammunition. Despite success in Europe and consistent critical acclaim, they never found favour with the UK record industry who appeared confused by their singular brand of humour and sometimes anarchic live shows. The 'hi-flying Burrito Brothers' eventually found themselves in a tangle of bad management and publishing agreements that strangled their creative momentum and finally their will to live".
(1000mexicans.co.uk)

"Leaving the synthetic deadwood of automised rhythm at the door, 1000 Mexicans' beat is less confined to their feet, spread out more evenly to the head and heart. There's a touch of the avant-garde about 1000 Mexicans that neatly sidesteps the need to force their awaiting audience to dance or stagger them into intellectualised submission without descending into the inferno of corporate paranoia and wicked stitch-ups of 23 Skidoo and Cabaret Voltaire. (...) It's your party and you can dance if you want to".
(Martin Aston, Melody Maker)

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