Album · Bow Wow Wow
See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy by Bow Wow Wow
See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy is an album by Bow Wow Wow, released in 1981. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Chihuahua”, on 2 lists with a best position of #70.
See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy, the debut album from Bow Wow Wow, came out on RCA on 16 October 1981, and the title alone tells you this lot don't do anything by halves. Malcolm McLaren built the band in 1980, poaching players from Adam and the Ants and putting a 13-year-old Annabella Lwin out front, and Colin Thurston produced the record.
The engine is Dave Barbarossa's drumming, a pounding, tumbling Burundi beat that makes every track feel like a tribal dance party, with Matthew Ashman along for the ride. Lwin doesn't so much sing as whoop, chant and dare you, and the lyrics veer between cheeky, suggestive and gleefully subversive. It's new wave with its shirt off, jungle-drum pop with no interest in sitting still, and "Chihuahua" and "(I'm a) TV Savage" still crackle with that giddy, unhinged energy.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chihuahua | 2 | #70 | – | 1981–1988 | |
| 2 | (I'm a) TV Savage | 1 | #1844 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.