See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!

In 1981, after splitting with EMI Records, Bow Wow Wow signed with new A&R head Bill Kimber of RCA Records, and released their first full-length album in October 1981. In support of the album, Bow Wow Wow opened for the Pretenders and the Police in the United States, and in Europe for Queen. In May 1982, they undertook a Japanese tour with Madness. The album was reissued by Cherry Red Records in 2010 as a two-disc set, retitled See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang / B-Sides. The second disc comprises various non-album tracks, including Bow Wow Wow's most popular single "I Want Candy" and the rare title track of the Teenage Queen EP. On 25 May 2018, Cherry Red released the three-disc set Your Box Set Pet (The Complete Recordings 1980–1984), which included See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! in its entirety on the first disc, plus ten bonus tracks. A 180g green/yellow marbled vinyl pressing limited to 2,000 copies worldwide is to be released on 27 May 2022. == Cover art ==

The album cover photograph, taken by Andy Earl, depicts the band recreating Édouard Manet's ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'' (1863). Posing nude was lead singer Annabella Lwin, who was 14 at the time of the album's release. The cover caused outrage, and Lwin's mother initiated a Scotland Yard investigation of the picture as child pornography, which led to a different cover being used for US releases. When the investigation went nowhere, the image was reused for their follow-up EP The Last of the Mohicans. The picture taken by Andy Earl is now part of the National Portrait Gallery collection. == Critical reception ==

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! was described by Tom Demalon of AllMusic as a mix of new wave and dance music, "with a heavy nod toward percussion." In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Tom Demalon wrote, "The results are mixed and you sometimes have the feeling that you are hearing the same song repeated. However, it's difficult not to find yourself drumming your fingers to the frantic beats." Simon Reynolds, in his book Rip It Up and Start Again, praised the record as "charming and witty and altogether captivating, a pop masterpiece", on which the band "achieved a uniquely ravishing sonic identity." In 2016, Vive Le Rock named it one of the 50 greatest new wave albums. == Track listing ==

;Bow Wow Wow • Annabella Lwin - vocals • Matthew Ashman - guitar • Leigh Gorman - bass • Dave Barbarossa - drums ;Technical • Nick Egan - design • Andy Earl - photography after Édouard Manet's ''Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'' == Charts ==