This is a compilation album containing "all the hits" of a nearly famous band which formed in 1978 at Warwick University.
The V.I.P.'s shared a bill with The Specials, Madness and Dexy's Midnight Runners, got played on John Peel and were booked on Top of The Pops (sadly, the appearance was cancelled due to an industrial dispute at the BBC).
The Midlander's first release was a three-track EP ‘Music For Funsters' featuring I’m Perfect, I Believe and Boy of the City. which, needless to say, are included here.
Actually, the 17 tunes and 42 minutes form the sum total of all their studio recordings. Their last single carries the self-explanatory title Things Aren’t What They Used To Be
The unoriginal album title and amateurish cover art adds to the probability of the band remaining off the radar.
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On top of this, there's more than one other group calling themselves The V.I.P.'s including a musical ensemble from Carlisle and a wedding band from Belfast.
There are plenty of lively backbeats and fab lyrics about love and the collection even includes a no frills version of Hippy Hippy Shake as a measure of how unapologetically un-modern they are.
I'm perfect is a fun Bonzo Dog Band style novelty piece while Who Knows goes to demonstrate that the musical bridge linking The Beatles with The Buzzcocks is not so wide.
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