the Woodentops Move me

[@wwgt]

Love it. Great Music. Heaven.. .Shout..etc..

[@thewoodentops.]

cheers wwgt!

[@wwgt]

@@thewoodentops. Thanks ! . Just know we still are listening. Well, Well, Well...the best energy song I ever did hear

[@mbaraldao]

Love this underrated band. Greetings from Brasil.

[@sidrocker]

Any doubts why the 80's still the best music period on the face of the Earth?!

[@springworksband7644]

First song I'd ever heard by an all time favourite band. Love it, along with every other song ❤

[@thewoodentops.]

thanks!

[@thewoodentops.]

Your music is good SB, im sure people will like.

[@springworksband7644]

@woodentops thanks so much, that really is just the best to hear. You've been such a huge influence and inspiration to us for so many years. Thanks for the kind words, we are kind of blown away that you had a listen to us knowing how many thousands of times we've listened to you and love every song. Heartfelt thanks ❤️

[@gojump7]

I used to play this great song on my college radio show in the mid - late 80s.

[@daveliso]

I also love the Woodentops. Veeeery unique, no other band like them. For the eighties, Wire, Woodentops, and Wall Of Voodoo were a blessing in originality. Also, Rolo McGinty has one of the sexiest most versatile voices in rock.

[@BenMcKnight-y2p]

So lovely this, love the band, one of the best nights ever at ULU, 1985, I think. Drummer played standing up. ❤️❤️❤️

[@thewoodentops.]

Hi Ben, yes he did so. He is a Benny, Benny lee Staples.I remember the ULU night well.

[@acoutts]

I love the Woodentops. They sounded like no other band, before or since.

[@martinquarton184]

Love the intro.

[@lesleycurtis-brown6643]

Brilliant. Wish I had seen the band live at this time.

[@vixen4905]

They were and still are amazing. The raw energy of live shows in the 80s was electric.

[@garethmorgan578]

"Move Me" - it certainly did. Class will out.

[@carpog]

A unique band who often struggled to capture the raw energy of their live performances on their records. This one and Well Well Well came the closest.

[@slowandcrystal]

What a fuxxing glorious racket!

[@PrincePurple]

I used to make cassette tapes of my favorite bands and just pop them in my Mustang and drive for hours. Of all the tapes I made The Woodentops one was thee best to listen to. The tempo of many of their songs was just perfect for a good time drive. You haven't lived until you drive around in a 1968 Mustang rocking to "Travelling Man" or "Stop This Car." And even the slower cutesy ones ("Make Me Feel," "Good Thing") were perfect driving songs. This band should have taken their demos not to Rough Trade, but to Ford or General Motors. Ah, they would have been billionaires by now.

[@waxyjohnson69]

Wow, I haven't heard this song in over 25+ years. Glad I finally found this video. Thanks for sharing

[@sergechalmandrier]

Great band

[@matthewlloyd]

Superb stuff - they blew me away at Brixton Academy in the 80's. Giant is their best effort by far. Still have the T shirt - even if it doesn't fit any more! I look forward to being 18 with them again soon.

[@musichead1969]

one of the best shows i ever saw, at the ritz in nyc. miss them.

[@ernstwhere]

timeless! i miss them....

[@SmithsnMoz]

Very nice!! Yea. Love the sound!!;

[@plymfritz1]

Yeah, Ziggy's or as it was known to us locals : CLUB THING, on account of a letter sent to Liverpool band Pink Industry asking "would you like to come play at this club thing we're starting?" and it stuck ever since. The roll call was pretty amazing and we no longer had to squash into cars and drive to 150km to Bristol for gigs.

[@Pleasuredome05]

J'adore. This is so fantastic. Put the volume to maximum and freak out❤

[@thewoodentops.]

hey thanks!

[@BerlinFan82]

First time listening to this band, will certainly be looking for more.

[@yadabotbingo]

Heard a cool thingy, song by lead singer and Captain Beefheart guitarist. Tuned it in from a college radio station on a road trip. I should search that. The Chills and Woodentops will always be my top picks.

[@thewoodentops.]

hey cheers. i think you mean Captt beef harts gary lucas gods and monsters. Rolo is singing on a few tunes in the first album of that.

[@yadabotbingo]

woodentops, Yep. Thanks. Found it. That earworm song was "Glo Worm" I'm still amazed.

[@comradejensen418]

Still got the LP with zaps

[@arthurnibble4763]

Excellent work there, Seb!

[@uncomprimeparjour]

Enorme!!!!

[@22Phantasm]

I wonder if their new stuff will compare to Giant ? I rate Giant in my top 20 debut albums of all time. Their second album with the very long title seemed to pale in comparison to Giant. Wish I'd seen them live, though.

[@garethmorgan578]

Giant is up there for me as well Ian, but in my opinion, all their records pale into insignificance compared to watching them live, as the records didn't quite capture the intensity and energy of their gigs which I had the pleasure of experiencing

[@thewoodentops.]

hi Ian, did you get a chance to check out granular tales lp we popped out in march this year 2014. Not seen anyone say it pales to giant. the opposite in fact.

[@ianrobson9601]

Totally agree, Giant is one of the best albums I ever bought. Unfortunately I bought it first on cassette which didn`t last long so I replaced it with the CD

[@rebjiii]

GIANT was a great album....NOT top 20 of all time though

[@leonardogomes7165]

@@thewoodentops. Bom dia. Obrigado pelo comentário. É muito sério, teria um contato WhatsApp, enail etc para conversarmos, João Inácio? Por favor. Aguardarei seu retorno sobre isso. Grato Leonardo Gomes

[@plymfritz1]

....continues...I've probably still got the tape tho.... as I have for every Club Thing gig. Yeah great times and i hope you saw the world on the back of it, the records deserved that. The girl? Maybe my sister or thereabouts. Us Thingers were a pretty close unit. Great times for all. What happened next?

[@clayguy33]

Shreds most of the stuff kids listen to today.

[@bobdobalina838]

Ah, I remember this. . . it was called GOOD MUSIC. What happened? . . .. and WHERE IS MY TIME MACHINE, so-call BRILLIANT SCIENTISTS?!?

[@shanonschubert5096]

fuck move me ! war seiner Zeit weit voraus ! Love it

[@rebjiii]

WHAT ever happened to this band ?.....they had some great tunes....like this one

[@thewoodentops.]

Hi, you'll find us active.

[@rebjiii]

How was Andy partridge to work with ?

[@thewoodentops.]

Hi. he was a) good fun as a person, b) really meticulous and clear minded.c) Experinental, d) knowledgable about techniques and keen to learn new ones e) Keen to jump in and help fill out the backing vocals, join in making home made click track f) very funny g) wide vocabulary of music past and present h) looked after me which at the time was, lets say unpredictable. i) really great to have a superb guitar player to work with Simon, they could talk about guitars and play together exchanging ideas. j) made sure I had a boss acoustic, a Martin, a particular one he had himself recorded with , you could rent it. k) never late L) good stories when needed m) a hero of mine n) introduced me to John Leckie o) also when i had ideas about him doing the project under a pseudonym so our record would be reviewed for what we had done rather than the producer taking up a large space of the small reviews as seemed to happen with say Dave Balfe. Reviews all about the Teardrop Explodes. Andy was gracious and said 'well only if you think of a name I like.' During our time i noticed peoples dogs would often seem to make their way over to him. Dogs he didn't know. For some reason they were attracted to him. We laughed about that one time and I said 'man you're like some sort of Animal Jesus' Andy looked and me said hey use that. produced by Animal Jesus. I thank him for that. In fact it drew more attention to the team as people would want to know, who really was that? P) Partridge. q) When we met him he came over to my flat and met the guitar player Simon and myself. Stayed around, we got the 8 track out and just for fun instead of say talking, knocked up a track. A disco tune in fact and the three of us leapt in whenever we had an idea. which was quick and non stop. r) rolo me. bit Ok , sometimes a bit rude. s) we did the single above in the film, the other tracks too, one of which is the deepest vocal and backing track of our music to date. The story of that track Steady Steady is too long for here. Andy was important to it. t) We did a further session, including recordings of songs that appeared later on the first album. Also Well Well Well the single was recorded by Andy and John Leckie u) Cold Inside the b side of Well Well Well has a great manually detuned piano part played by myself that he was manipulating a Revox tape recorder, jamming the wheel, speeding up, showing down to twist and bend the notes of my improvisation. v) our beats were very us, Andy did not try to change them, in fact he worked hard to make them brutal as possible w) the woodies benefited greatly from working with him x) the effects on my strange lead casio part at the end of move me. awesome! y) we made sure the tempos were even so it would be club floor friendly. always important that.click track! even if a human one. as the years have gone by Ive heard of so many night clubs of early 80's having move me as a floor filler. z) thanks for asking.

[@rebjiii]

Thanks for the response.....did u watch the XTC documentary on Showtime ?...it was very well done

[@pcla994]

another really cool band like this was Prefab Sprout.

[@Paris18Barbes]

Saw them supporting The Smiths

[@thewoodentops.]

ah! baby us! where was that?

[@Paris18Barbes]

@@thewoodentops. Swansea Top Rank

[@plymfritz1]

...continues...After a few months Ziggy's owners stole it back and wrecked it. But there were never enough of us to sustain it. 30-60 on average, even for 2 incredible Primal Scream early gigs (one with The Pastels other with Shop Assistants). Jesus & MC the band to sell out (and got chucked out later). Tipped off by a house of nurses in Hammersmith Woodentops became an essential booking as did the records to the collection. It just didn't happen for me on that night.

[@mjproebstle]

who is still moving in 2020?

[@thewoodentops.]

definitely us and all those in a room with us. Hi there!

[@mjproebstle]

@@thewoodentops. hello! first heard these guys on WHFS 99.1 FM out of Annapolis back in the day. Still spinning the vinyl and cranking the volume today :)

[@thewoodentops.]

@@mjproebstle nice thanks for saying!

[@thewoodentops.]

pronatorgator says>>I was once told that Rolo McGinty would only allow people to play with The Woodentops if they were smaller than 5ft 9ins. If you watch this video you will see that the cameras are position to play down the difference in height between Rollo and the guitarist. Aren't pop stars brilliant?

[@thewoodentops.]

you know that was a joke we made. frank de freitas there on the bass, he's tall, still with us and great! :)

[@allanemanuelsen512]

Actuallly, abe played the organs.

[@eduardobracamontealvarez1959]

echo and the bunnymen

[@thewoodentops.]

The Woodentops

[@Mauk1970]

The Lyrics ?

[@GRIFFIN8OR]

@woodentops lols x2

[@GRIFFIN8OR]

lols x2

[@plymfritz1]

Rolo, you're not and never will be Nick Cave even if you dance the same. Great to listen to, awful, to watch. We booked them in Plymouth, England. They didn't Move many, which was always there problem. I loved the speed of the songs but just look at them... Buskers...give 'em a little record deal and watch 'em go. I really, really, wanted to like this band but there was just something about them. Girls seemed to want to gyrate to them...was THAT my problem?

[@allanemanuelsen512]

They never was great???? Don't understand?????

[@JohnM...]

wasn't there a girl? can't see her!

[@thewoodentops.]

left hand side boogieing away on the keyboard.

[@MrSquonkster]

The lovely Alice... Who I haven't seen for over 30 years...