Goodbye Jumbo

Goodbye Jumbo is the second studio album by British alternative rock band World Party, released on 24 April 1990 on Ensign Records.

Goodbye Jumbo
Studio album by
World Party
Released24 April 1990
Recorded1987–1989
Genre
Length53:22
LabelEnsign
ProducerKarl Wallinger
World Party chronology
Private Revolution
(1987)		 Goodbye Jumbo
(1990)		 Bang!
(1993)
Singles from Goodbye Jumbo
  1. "Way Down Now"
    Released: 1990
  2. "Put the Message in the Box"
    Released: 1990
  3. "Thank You World"
    Released: 1991

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.[1]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]
Orlando Sentinel[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

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."[3] 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."[6] 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".[9] Spin's Jon Young dubbed it as a "winning opus".[10] 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".[11]

Goodbye Jumbo was named the fifteenth best album of 1990 in The Village Voice's year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[12] 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.[13]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Karl Wallinger.

  1. "Is It Too Late?" – 4:24
  2. "Way Down Now" – 3:49
  3. "When the Rainbow Comes" – 4:58
  4. "Put the Message in the Box" – 4:16
  5. "Ain't Gonna Come Till I'm Ready" – 5:05
  6. "And I Fell Back Alone" – 3:57
  7. "Take It Up" – 4:37
  8. "God on My Side" – 4:14
  9. "Show Me to the Top" – 5:15 (contains untitled hidden track beginning at 4:42)
  10. "Love Street" – 4:21
  11. "Sweet Soul Dream" – 4:39
  12. "Thank You World" – 3:47

Personnel

Credits for Goodbye Jumbo adapted from album liner notes.[14]

Charts
Chart (1990) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA Charts)[15] 80
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[16] 38
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[17] 20
UK Albums (OCC)[18] 36
US Billboard 200[19] 73

References
  1. "World Party Chart History (Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  2. Erlewine, Iotis. "Goodbye Jumbo – World Party". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. Kot, Greg (10 May 1990). "World Party: Goodbye Jumbo (Ensign)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  5. Sandow, Greg (18 May 1990). "Goodbye Jumbo". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  6. Willman, Chris (27 May 1990). "World Party 'Goodbye Jumbo' Ensign/Chrysalis". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  7. Gettelman, Parry (20 July 1990). "World Party". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  8. Black, Johnny (June 1990). "World Party: Goodbye Jumbo". Q (45).
  9. McLeese, Don (31 May 1990). "World Party: Goodbye Jumbo". Rolling Stone (579). Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  10. Young, Jon (July 1990). "World Party: Goodbye Jumbo". Spin. 6 (4): 79–80. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  11. Christgau, Robert (2000). "World Party: Goodbye Jumbo". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  12. "The 1990 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice. 5 March 1990. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  13. Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 169. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
  14. Goodbye Jumbo (liner notes). World Party. Ensign Records. 1990. CDP 32 1654 2.CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  16. "Dutchcharts.nl – World Party – Goodbye Jumbo" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  17. "Swedishcharts.com – World Party – Goodbye Jumbo". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  18. "World Party | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  19. "World Party Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
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