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Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! is a greatest hits compilation album by the English new wave band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox, released in 1984 by K-tel. The album is also known as Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! All the Hits by including the cover slogan to differentiate it from the earlier live album Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!.
Wilcox at a concert in Spencerville, Ontario in 2006. Motivated by the success of his tour and two gold records, Wilcox went back into the studio in 1984 to record Bad Reputation. A year later he released The Best of David Wilcox, his first compilation album, as a hit-inspired collection of his songs. It was also the debut album for "Blood ...
on YouTube " I Want to Be Free " is a song by the English new wave band Toyah , fronted by Toyah Willcox , released as a single in May 1981 by Safari Records . The song promoted Toyah's 1981 studio album Anthem and was a Top 10 chart hit in the UK and Ireland.
The single and its B-side "Laughing with the Fools" were not included on an album at the time, though both would eventually be included on the 2005 reissue of Love Is the Law, while the title track became the lead song on the 1998 compilation The Best of Toyah: Proud, Loud & Heard, hand-picked by Toyah Willcox herself.
Willcox said that the "song is very much to celebrate the beauty of the brides around the world, who've not been able to have their weddings during lockdown". [7] "Space Dance" was inspired by Darlow's dream to be an astronaut and was originally called "Space Man". [10]
Musically, Desire is more typical of Willcox's band's earlier albums rather than its more commercial predecessor Minx.Most of the songs are once again co-written by Willcox, and while the original release of the album does not feature any musician credits, it features a consistent band line-up, rather than the large number of session musicians involved in Minx. [2]
It is listed at number 49 on the official top 50 best-selling singles of 1981 [3] and was eventually certified silver in the UK. [4] In June 2021, Four from Toyah was re-released by Cherry Red Records in 12" vinyl format for Record Store Day , with additional tracks and new artwork.
Wilcox does this with sensitivity, analytic zeal and subtle emotional force." [5] Many of his songs analyze the dynamics of relationships in epigrammatic verses that are at once earnest and gently humorous. While many of Mr. Wilcox's songs have light blues inflections, occasionally they also look back in spirit to Tin Pan Alley.