World Party - Put The Message In The Box

Sunday time for a classic!

Today's tune "Put The Message In The Box" is a by British alternative rock band WORLD PARTY, taken from the second studio album "Goodbye Jumbo", released on 24 April 1990 on Ensign Records.

The album received generally positive reviews from critics and peaked at No. 73 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 36 on the UK Albums Chart. "Way Down Now", the album's lead single, spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, and follow-up single "Put The Message In The Box" reached No. 8.

In a contemporary review for the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot noted heavy influence from THE BEATLES in the album's "sense of pop and studio craft" and wrote that the biting humor and irony expressed in Wallinger's lyrics was balanced out by "memorable melodies and moments", calling all the album's songs "worth savoring." Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times felt that his "Lennonisms sound somehow endemic, not affected" and the wide range of musical influences on "Goodbye Jumbo" did not constitute "petty theft", stating that the album "comes together marvelously." Don McLeese of Rolling Stone wrote that Goodbye Jumbo "displays an ambition as broad as the emotional range of its music" and that while Wallinger's "missionary zeal occasionally belabors his messages", the album's music is "sufficiently vital to overpower resistance". Spin's Jon Young dubbed it as a "winning opus". One detractor was Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, who assigned the album a "dud" rating, indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".

World Party are a British musical group, which is essentially the solo project of its sole member, Karl Wallinger. He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys.

"Goodbye Jumbo" was named the fifteenth best album of 1990 in The Village Voice's year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. It was named as Album of the Year by Q in 1990, with the album also receiving a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album the same year. In 2000, Q placed it at number 94 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

In 2000 it was voted number 474 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

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