"Digging Your Scene" by The Blow Monkeys - January 31st 80's Quest Song/Band of the Day

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Back in 1986, I loooved the song “Digging Your Scene”!  I had the album, and my college roommate, Terri, and I had it in heavy rotation on our dorm room stereo.  Who knows…it may have made it on to some party cassettes that I used to make for various fraternity parties back around that time, because it was very danceable.

The Blow Monkeys were a band formed in England in 1981.  Dr. Robert (real name Bruce Robert Howard) started the band and was their lead singer, songwriter and guitarist with Mick Anker on bass, Neville Henry on saxophone, and Tony Kiley on drums.

Their debut album, “Limping for a Generation” was released in 1984, but they did not have a hit until 1986 with “Digging Your Scene” off their second album, “Animal Magic”.  The lyrics were about AIDS-fueled backlash against gay people (which I actually never realized until researching for 80’s Quest), but the song was very pop and upbeat.  “Digging Your Scene” reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in August 1986.

The band released a third album in 1987, “She Was Only a Grocer’s Daughter” which spawned some U.K. hits but never charted in the United States.  One song from that album, “You Don’t Own Me’ was featured on the soundtrack to the movie “Dirty Dancing”, and the album was featured in the film, “Police Academy 4:  Citizens on Patrol”.

Dr. Robert released some solo material in collaboration with Chicago House diva, Kym Mazelle, which were hits in the U.K and appeared on their fourth album, “Whoops! There Goes the Neighborhood”.

The band broke up in 1990 after the release of their fifth album.  Dr. Robert went solo and also worked with Paul Weller on Weller’s first solo album.  He also collaborated with Beth Orton.  The Blow Monkeys reunited in 2007-2008 and even released a new album in January 2011 called “Staring at the Sea”.

Lyrics:

I just got your message baby
So sad to see you fade away
What in the world is this feeling
To catch a breath and leave me reeling
It'll get you in the end, its god's revenge

Oh I know I should come clean
But I prefer to deceive
Everyday I walk alone
And pray that god won't see me

I know its wrong, I know its wrong
Tell me why is it I'm digging your scene
I know I'll die baby

They put you in a home to fill in
But I wouldn't call that living
I'm like a boy among men
I'd like a permanent friend

I'd like to think that I was just myself again
Why is it I'm digging your scene
I know I'll die baby

I just got your message baby
So sad to see you fade away
I'm like a boy among men
I'd like a permanent friend
I'd like to think that I was just myself again

Why is it I'm digging your scene
I know I'll die baby