| 词条 | King Kong Groover |
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| name = King Kong Groover | type = Album | artist = Babylon Zoo | cover = CONT-000168 s.jpg | alt = | released = 26 February 1999 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Alternative rock, glam rock | length = 48:22 59:14 (Japan edition) | label = EMI | producer = Jas Mann | prev_title = The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = | next_year = }} King Kong Groover is the second and final album by Babylon Zoo, released on 26 February 1999. It met with negative reviews and was a commercial flop. The singles from the album were "All the Money's Gone", which peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart, and a cover of Mott the Hoople's "Honaloochie Boogie", which was issued as a promotional single in France (plans for an international release were abandoned). The song "Chrome Invader" was originally called "Silver Surfer" but had to be changed for copyright reasons.{{CN|date=December 2016}} The Japanese version of the album includes two bonus tracks: an acoustic cover of T.Rex's "Cosmic Dancer" and a remix of "The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes". Commercial performanceAn "abject failure",[1] King Kong Groover sold less than 10,000 copies and did not chart.[2] Critical reception{{Album ratings|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[1] |rev2 = Dotmusic |rev2score = {{Rating|4|10}}[2] |rev3 = The Guardian |rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}[3] |rev4 = NME |rev4score = 1/10[4] |rev5 = Scotland on Sunday |rev5score = {{Rating|1|5}}[5] }}King Kong Groover met with negative reviews.[6] NME scored the album one out of ten, calling it a "slickly produced machiavellian plundering of pop classics" and a "clumsy effort to resurrect a career that was a fluke in the first place."[4] In the Scotland on Sunday, Colin Somerville awarded the record one star out of five. He argued that "Bikini Machine" plagiarises The Beatles' "Across the Universe", and concluded: "Sadly lacking in anything even remotely approaching originality, King Kong Groover is the sound of a career spinning into terminal decline."[5] Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote that bandleader Jas Mann is "shrill and fun, but lacking the depth to take him beyond 'Spaceman'."[3] Dotmusic felt that none of the songs match the "futuristic kick" of that track.[2] Irish Times journalist Kevin Courtney found the album to be a marked improvement over predecessor The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1996), but noted that despite its "[aspirations] to Ziggy Stardust-era elevation, Babylon Zoo are still tied down by too many threadbare ideas".[7] Deviating from critical consensus in a retrospective review, Dave Thompson of AllMusic said that while there is "nothing in sight to even approach the peaks that their debut hit 'Spaceman' attained", the album has "yearning majesty" and "neo-operatic flair".[1] Track listingAll tracks written by Jas Mann except where noted.
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/king-kong-groover-mw0001186876 | author=Thompson, Dave | authorlink=Dave Thompson (author) | title=King Kong Groover review | publisher=AllMusic. Rovi Corporation | accessdate=18 July 2012}} {{Babylon Zoo}}2. ^1 {{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905103223/http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/l_reviews_a/9637.html | title=Babylon Zoo - 'King Kong Groover' | work=Dotmusic | date=26 January 1999 | accessdate=1 April 2019}} 3. ^1 {{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Caroline |title=This week's pop CD releases |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/260153122/ |accessdate=29 December 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=5 February 1999 |page=42 (Friday Review, p.16) |subscription=yes}} 4. ^1 {{cite web | url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604165022/http://www.nme.com/reviews/babylon-zoo/598 | title=King Kong Groover | work=NME | date=2 January 1999 | accessdate=28 November 2018}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Somerville|first=Colin|date=7 February 1999|title=Album releases|journal=Scotland on Sunday|publisher=The Scotsman Publications}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Spaceman+band+falls+back+to+earth.-a060199381|title=Spaceman band falls back to earth|publisher=The Free Library|website=Sunday Mercury|date=9 May 1999|accessdate=12 November 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/rock-pop-1.151968|title=Rock/Pop|last=Courtney|first=Kevin|date=12 February 1999|website=The Irish Times|access-date=5 December 2018}} 2 : 1999 albums|Babylon Zoo albums |
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