Empire of the Ants

Adam & The Ants - Antmusic

OK, Sexpeople! It's time for you to stand & deliver!

For here's a group I've always wanted to cover, with an anniversary to make it all happen.

By the time three months had passed since this gig, they were no more and their leader had gone solo.

He had many more smash hits on his own, but there was never anything quite like the original configuration.

So it's at roughly the midpoint between The Drummers of Burundi and The Stranglers that we find our heroes Adam & The Ants, riding the crest of the MTV wave to unprecedented stardom.

Anyway this is the soundtrack to one of their concert films that's never made it to DVD, taped 41 years ago today in their native London.

Adam & The Ants

The Prince Charming Revue

Theatre Royal Drury Lane 

London, UK

12.18.1981

01 opening

02 Picasso Visita el Planeta de Los Simios

03 Five Guns West

04 That Voodoo!

05 S.E.X.

06 Scorpios

07 Antmusic

08 Don't Be Square (Be There)

09 Prince Charming

10 The Human Beings

11 Ants Invasion

12 Killer In the Home

13 Mowhok

14 Dog Eat Dog

15 Jolly Roger

16 Los Rancheros

17 Christian D'Or

18 Kings of the Wild Frontier

19 Ant Rap

20 Physical (You're So)

Total time: 01:13:03

Adam Ant - vocals & percussion

Marco Pirroni - guitar

Gary Tibbs - bass & vocals

Terry Lee Miall - drums, percussion & vocals

Chris "Merrick" Hughes - drums, keyboards, guitar, percussion & vocals

soundtrack of the 1982 CBS Video HiFi VHS release; never issued on DVD

192/48 audio extracted, converted to 16/44 CD Audio, tracked & slightly remastered by EN, July 2022
478 MB FLAC/direct link

So unplug the jukebox, do us all a favor will you? That music's lost its taste, so try another flavor! Anniversary Antmusic all around!--J.