IT'S BROWSING ROUND SECOND HAND RECORD SHOPS WEEK.....(2 of 4)

This was a lot that I only ever knew from one of their songs being included on a compilation tape put together for me by Jacques the Kipper back in the early 90s. I bought the single the other week cos I thought both it and the b-side had cracking titles:-

mp3 : Mambo Taxi - Do You Always Dress Like That In Front Of Other People's Boyfriends?
mp3 : Mambo Taxi - I Want To Marry A Serial Killer

Top stuff. The b-side is like one of those mad instrumentals that Blur used to throw at us on their early LPs......

Mambo Taxi weren't with us for very long, releasing just three singles and one LP in 1993/94. Wikipedia describes their sound as a mix of garage, punk and pop which on the basis of these two tracks seems accurate enough.

They were lumped in with other female-led bands of the era as part of a movement known as Riot Grrrl, although in retrospect, it appears that this was more an effort by the London-based music media to try and manufacture something out of not much more than nothing.

And here's the video of the song that JtK put on the tape for all those years ago:-




OK, so it's not terribly tuneful, but there's something quite alluring about it all. I don't expect many of you to agree though.....