Description
ELECTRIC BOYS: Groovus Maximus [Hard Rock]
Personnel: Conny Bloom lead vocals, guitars Andy Christell bass, backing vocals Franco Santunione guitars, backing vocals Niclas Sigevall drums.
Label: Vertigo – 512 255-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Style: Hard Rock, Glam
Tracklist:
1 Groovus Maximus 3:41
2 Knee Deep In You 3:42
3 Mary In The Mystery World 5:27
4 Fire In The House 3:12
5 The Sky Is Crying 3:38
6 Bed Of Roses 4:33
7 She’s Into Something Heavy 3:48
8 Dying To Be Loved 4:38
9 Bad Motherfunker 2:43
10 When Love Explodes 3:51
11 Tambourine 2:03
12 Tear It Up 3:25
13 March Of The Spirits 3:26
The Electric Boys are a funk metal band founded in Sweden in 1988, which enjoyed a cult status in Europe at the end of the decade.
They signed for Polygram and scored a local Swedish hit with the single “”All Lips and Hips”” in 1988. This early version of what would become perhaps the band’s best-known hit also appeared that same year in America on the soundtrack to the movie Feds.
In 1989, the band’s debut album Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride, including a revamped version of “”All Lips and Hips”” was a success in Europe, and they picked up a strong following in Britain, where, as well as headlining small clubs, they supported Thunder. When headlining Newcastle upon Tyne, Riverside club, the band were joined on stage by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis who were performing in the same venue at around the same time. The following year, the album was released in America, where they also became moderately successful, thanks to the singles “”All Lips and Hips”” and “”Psychedelic Eyes.”” However, the follow-up album Groovus Maximus did not emerge until 1992, by which time grunge had swept all before it. By the end of an American tour to promote it supporting Mr. Big, the band had lost 2 of it’s members and both North American and European record deals.
Official video (a Very good sounding video):
Official video (some of the intro seconds are missing sadly)
Here is the whole song:
Sweden’s Electric Boys were one of the first and most celebrated purveyors of the short-lived funk metal phenomenon of the late ’80s and early ’90s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Electric Boys – Groovus Maximus (Is Exactly What It Says On The Label!!)
I’m not gonna bore you with everything I could think of saying about this album because if you are looking at it, you probably already know what its about!! The music on this album is funk/metal with (at times) a psychedelic edge to it. This is from the early 90’s when funk metal fusion was at its very best when bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Enuff-Z-Nuff, Bang Tango, Saigon Kick, White Trash, Love/Hate and Jane’s Addiction were all turning out fantastic tunes – it’s a shame that The Electric Boys never got the recognition they deserved!! The funk/metal fusion bands should have had a longer spell in music history as I think they would have produced some fantastic music but, like most of these bands at the time who were coming into there prime, they were killed off by the useless Grunge movement that emerged. Grunge was never really anything compared to the previous genres that had gone before it – it was a morbid style of music with bands that were highly over rated and Nirvana were the pick of the bunch for that!!
If you want to listen to hard hitting funk rock with an edge, buy this album and while your at it, get the first and third albums (Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride (fantastic) and Freewheelin’) by this band, they’re excellent!! Freewheelin’ is more of a straight hard rock album, (probably because of the line-up change) but its still got that edge about it and its superb!!
The music on this CD is exactly what is missing from today’s boring, manufactured music! Its great songs written and performed by proper musicians who can play instruments; NOT a load of songs performed by pretty boys/girls who think they can sing and who perform silly dance routines to the music written for them by other people!!!
Official video (a Very good sounding video):
Electric Boys • Groovus Maximus • May 12, 1992 •
Electric Boys were founded in Sweden in 1988 where they scored a hit with the single “All Lips and Hips”. They were not your average Hair-Metal Band. I loved “Funk-o-Metal Carpet Ride”, but this one is better. Of the thousands of bands I listened to in 1992, this one still sounds awesome. The energy on this album is frickin’ incredible. It has the pump-you-up energy of late 80’s metal without the cheesiness, but with the 70’s funk that makes you want to get up and go. Any fan of 80’s-90’s metal that regrets the musical malaise since Nirvana detoured the music industry should pick this up. This is some finger-lickin’ hardcore. The album was recorded at the Abbey Road Studios in London and there were two music videos made from that album, “Mary in the Mystery World” and “Dying to be Loved”.
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