Goody Two Shoes (song)
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"Goody Two Shoes"
Single by Adam Ant
from the album Friend or Foe
"Red Scab"
New wave,[1] dance-rock[2]
3:28 (album version)[3]
3:15 (single version)[4]
Marco Pirroni
Adam Ant singles chronology
"The B-Sides"
(1982) "Goody Two Shoes"
(1982) "Friend or Foe"
"Goody Two Shoes" is a song by Adam Ant, released on 7 May 1982.[5]
2 B-side
4.1 Weekly charts
6 Other media
There are two versions of the cover. The first has Adam and the Ants across the top of the sleeve and the later version just Adam Ant. This is probably due to the confusion around the timing of Adam going solo, particularly as the song was performed by three fifths of the band Ant, Pirroni and Hughes.[6]
There are also two different studio versions of the song. The UK 7" single version is notably different from the re-recorded version which appears on Friend or Foe. The single version has a different, more reverberating drum track. The Friend or Foe version, instead of Hughes on drums, features Bogdan Wiczling, drummer on the rest of the album.[7]
Adam Ant performed "Goody Two Shoes" at Top of the Pops on 20 May 1982.[8]
B-side[edit]
Ant sometimes recorded new versions of his pre-1980 compositions for the B-side of his singles. For this single, an old Ant song from 1977 called "Red Scab" was used.[6]
All songs written by Adam Ant except as noted.[4]
"Goody Two Shoes" (Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni) – 3:15
"Red Scab" – 4:06
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1982–1983)
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4] 16
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[10] 4
Germany (Official German Charts)[11] 5
Ireland (IRMA)[12] 2
Italy (FIMI)[13] 41
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[14] 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[15] 13
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[16] 29
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[17] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[18] 12
US Billboard Top Tracks[18] 7
US Cash Box[19] 12
Year-end charts[edit]
Australia (Kent Music Report)[20] 40
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[21] 100
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[22] 36
Music video[edit]
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The video presents a stylized vision of a day in the life of Adam Ant, from dressing in the morning to performing on stage, to being hounded by the media. At the end of the day, he takes home a woman journalist played by British actress Caroline Munro, in effect answering the song's theme question, "What do you do?" The video also starred veteran actors Graham Stark as the butler and Dandy Nichols.
Other media[edit]
"Goody Two Shoes" was featured in the film Hot Fuzz.[25] and The Umbrella Academy [26]
Covers[edit]
Punk band Unwritten Law later covered this song.[27]
In 2014, singer-songwriters Jim Boggia and Pete Donnelly released a cover version of the song on the multi-artist compilation album Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion.[28]
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Adam Ant – Playlist: The Very Best of Adam Ant". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
^ Pollock, Bruce (2005). The 7500 Most Important Songs of the Rock and Roll Era (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 0-415-97073-3.
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Adam Ant – Friend or Foe". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
^ a b c "Ultratop.be – Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Goody Two Shoes". Adam-ant.net. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
^ a b Adam Ant & Marco Pirroni (7 May 1982). "Desperate But Not Serious". Adam-ant.net. EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
^ "Official Adam Ant website". Adam-ant.net. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Top of the Pops: 20/05/1982". BBC One. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
^ "Australia No. 1 hits -- 1980's". World Charts. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011.
^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 6213." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Goody Two Shoes". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Indice per Interprete: A" (in Italian). Hit Parade Italia. Creative Commons. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Charts.nz – Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ a b "Adam Ant – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending FEBRUARY 5, 1983". Cash Box. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1982" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
^ "The Top Singles of 1983". RPM. Vol. 39 no. 17. 24 December 1983. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
^ "Top 100 Hits for 1983". The Longbored Surfer. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
^ "The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1983". Cash Box. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
^ Phares, Heather. "Original Soundtrack – Hot Fuzz [Cherry Tree]". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
^ Shaw-Williams, Hannah (15 February 2019). "Every Song in the Umbrella Academy Season 1". Screen Rant. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
^ Egenthal, Mike. "Various Artists – Before You Were Punk [1997]". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ Curry, Andrew. "Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
Adam and the Ants albums
Dirk Wears White Sox (1979)
Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)
Prince Charming (1981)
Solo albums
Friend or Foe (1982)
Vive Le Rock (1985)
Manners & Physique (1990)
Persuasion (1991, unreleased)
Wonderful (1995)
Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter (2013)
Antics in the Forbidden Zone (1990)
Antmusic: The Very Best of Adam Ant (1994)
B-Side Babies (1994)
Redux (2005)
Adam and the Ants singles
"Young Parisians" (1978)
"Zerox" (1979)
"Cartrouble" (1980)
"Kings of the Wild Frontier" (1980)
"Dog Eat Dog" (1980)
"Antmusic" (1980)
"Stand and Deliver" (1981)
"Prince Charming" (1981)
"Ant Rap" (1981)
"Deutscher Girls" (1982)
"The B-Sides (EP)" (1982)
Solo singles
"Goody Two Shoes" (1982)
"Friend or Foe" (1982)
"Desperate But Not Serious" (1982)
"Room at the Top" (1990)
Bazooka Joe
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