Jimmy The Hoover - Bandana Street (Use It) (MCA)

If you blinked two years ago you'll have missed the rise of Jimmy The Hoover - the strange collection of individuals who meteorically shot to fame with the instantly forgettable "Tantalise" and immediately returned to the obscurity from whence they came. Their new offering can best be described as an active assault on the aural cavities, with production overriding content to deliver a wall of sound comprising some 50 voices and a hundred trumpets blowing rather violently into your ear drums. (Eleanor Levy, Record Mirror, September 21, 1985)

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise (Innervision)

Go for the shades and the beany hat - summer's here! Sunny African rhythms, flamenco guitars and it's "hey, senorita, you playa the frisbee?" Exhilarating stuff and the rousing chorus of "wo-wo-ee-yeh-yeh" is easy enough for even me to remember. ("Extra gold star for really silly name" - Reg the Spin-drier). (Mark Steels, Smash Hits, June 9, 1983)

... Or, the United Nations play flamenco. The five members of Jimmy The Hoover come from different parts of the globe and very different cultures, but the feel of this record is pure Hispanic. It's a lovely single - pretty, poppy, sweet and fresh. Not as tropical as The Kid, but a million miles from the likes of Modern Romance. (Maureen Rice, No 1, June 4, 1983)