![]() ![]() It is impossible to understand why, especially when within about four years later would borrow from essentially the same sources but with much less care and musical style (although admittedly a bit more T.Rex rock and swaggering attitude). At the inaugural Q awards that year it won best album - but still it didn't really catch on. With a tidy 12 tracks, potentially huge hits in the trippy pop of Put The Message In The Box and the rocky Way Down Now, Goodbye Jumbo was the great album that went past just about everyone. He confirmed his particular gift for late-period Fab Four-inspired music on Goodbye Jumbo, an album of effortless melodicism and adult pop with allusive lyrics about God, the green revolution, love in many forms and much more. This item: Private Revolution by World Party Audio CD 19.86 Goodbye Jumbo by World Party Audio CD 9.29 Dumbing Up by World Party Audio CD 15.29 Bang LP World Party 55 Vinyl 21.49 Dumbing Up 2 LP World Party 57 Vinyl 26.99 World Party - Best in Show World Party 48 Audio CD 3 offers from 17. Karl Wallinger, formerly of the Waterboys alongside Mike Scott, had embarked on a promising solo career with his band World Party (the debut album Private Revolution in 1986). Curiously enough one of the best albums of that year (according to Q magazine and dozens of critics) was one that simply didn't do the business at the cash register. Okay, there was MC Hammer and New Kids on the Block, but you get the point.
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