hypersongs

Why Why Why

The live version from Live Hypnobeat Live (1987), a Balearic club hit in the summer of 1988.
The Woodentops (1987)

McGinty wrote it. Our upload is titled with Giant, but sources place the original on Live Hypnobeat Live, recorded at a California show in November 1986, with "Why" as the 1986 studio B-side to "Everyday Living"; Sherwood remixes of both were made for singles. Toppermost says the DJ Alfredo Fiorito played it in Ibiza and it became a club hit in summer 1988, which neither Rough Trade nor the band capitalized on. A record seller calls the live "Why" the definitive version, played by Alfredo at Amnesia.

Paul Oakenfold's first remix was an underground version of it, per Kit Monsters. Toppermost adds that Oakenfold later remixed it for Generations: Three Decades of Dance, and that Cox, Rampling and Weatherall used it as a set closer. Classic Pop reportedly says Oakenfold licensed it for Balearic Beats Volume One but Rough Trade refused a standalone 12-inch; we could not open that page. A Tony Johns and Dave Boreham Balearic re-edit is on Before During After (2013), and Wall of Sound WOS160 in 2016 released remixes billed as a 30th-anniversary set, by Leo Mas and Fabrice, Lisbon Kid, Justin Strauss and Bryan Mette, and Trevor Fung and Dan Wainwright. We found no words from McGinty on the song and no play count.

Sources

  1. The Woodentops, Toppermost
  2. The Woodentops remastering quest, Kit Monsters
  3. Why Why Why, Global Groove