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BATTLE HYMNS FOR CHILDREN SINGING Haysi Fantayzee's 1983 album "Battle Hymns For Children Singing" has been re-released on CD with bonus tracks and remixes. Never a huge hit in the US, the group is best remembered by New Wave fans for the singles "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" and "Shiny Shiny." Listened to with the benefit of hindsight, the album seems both seminal and very of it's time; the cartoonish girl-boy duets and gimmicky production can be heard today in the likes of Toy Box and Aqua. If you're the sort of person who'd be interested in buying this album, you probably know about Haysi Fantayzee already. If you're not, while I can't say it's the first album in it's genre I'd recommend, it's a mostly smooth mix of electronic dance music, country and other elements. Though one remix, "Sister Friction," improves on the
original, most make the songs a bit tedious (they were never meant
to last more than three or four minutes). The bonus tracks sound
like B-side throwaways and one, "Okay Big Daddy," is the
let's-fool-around-with-backward-vocals record that everyone makes
when they get a multitrack recorder.
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