Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom


Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom is a 1988 album by Tom Tom Club and included the band's cover of the Velvet Underground track "Femme Fatale" with David Byrne on backing vocals. The track "Suboceana" was released as a single in the UK in late 1988 and received some radio airplay. In the US, a 12-inch single of the song was released, which featured a remix by Marshall Jefferson, and contains the track "Devil, Does Your Dog Bite". That song is a bonus on the Japanese issue of the album that has the original 10 songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, except where noted.
  1. "Suboceana" – 4:53
  2. "Shock the World" – 3:51
  3. "Don't Say No" – 4:30
  4. "Challenge of the Love Warriors" – 3:07
  5. "Femme Fatale" – 2:48
  6. "Born for Love" – 4:24
  7. "Broken Promises" – 3:45
  8. "She Belongs to Me" – 4:03
  9. "Little Eva" – 4:00
  10. "Mighty Teardrop" – 4:13

    US/Canada (1989) track listing

The album was heavily revised for issue in the US and Canada. Three tracks of the original 1988 issue were dropped, while four new tracks were added.
  1. "Call of the Wild" mixed by Gary Wilkinson
  2. "Kiss Me When I Get Back" mixed by Louis Scalise
  3. "Wa Wa Dance" mixed by Gary Wilkinson
  4. "I Confess" mixed by David Sussman
  5. "Challenge of the Love Warriors"
  6. "Suboceana"
  7. "Don't Say No"
  8. "Shock the World"
  9. "Little Eva"
  10. "Femme Fatale"
  11. "She Belongs to Me" mixed by Mark Roule

    Personnel

Engineered and mixed by Glenn Rosenstein

Additional engineering by Mark Roule and Steven Stanley

Chart performance

The album spent 11 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #114 in May 1989.