''The Twelve Commandments of Dance'' is the debut album by German-based English dance-pop duo
London Boys
London Boys were a German-based United Kingdom, British dance-pop Musical duo, duo composed of Edem Ephraim (1 July 1959, London, UK – 21 January 1996) and Dennis Fuller (19 June 1959, Jamaica – 21 January 1996). They are best remembered fo ...
, released in 1989. It reached number 2 in the
UK Albums Chart
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and stayed on the chart for 29 weeks.
Other than the charting singles stated in the track listing, two other singles were released: "I'm Gonna Give My Heart" and "Dance Dance Dance".
Critical reception
A review published in ''
Music Week
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'' presented the album as a "perfect, pimple-free, faceless pop music that attempts to be soulful but lacks any kind of charisma", reproached the fact that all the tracks "repeat the
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formula ad nauseum", and concluded that "the album is a danger to youngsters everywhere". Johnny Dee of ''
'' stated that lyrically, the album is "all utter cack", but considered that the more important thing lies in the fact that every track "has a 132 bpm sequencer chugging away" and "a chorus so catchy" that listerners could not forget it and could perform "stupid dances" on it.
Retrospectively, in a 2015 review, the Pop Rescue website gave the album four stars out of five, presented it as containing "wonderful early commercial dance/europop and light tracks" with elements from both
, added "it is up-beat throughout and mostly up-lifting and cheerful", but considered "Wichitah Woman" and "El Matinero" as the weakest tracks.
" – 4:19 (UK No. 4)
# "Kimbaley (My Ma-Mama Say)" – 4:17
# "
" – 3:48 (UK No. 17)
# "Chinese Radio" – 3:49
# "Wichitah Woman" – 3:58
# "
" – 3:05 (UK No. 46)
# "
" – 4:02 (UK No. 2)
# "I'm Gonna Give My Heart" – 4:08
# "El Matinero" – 4:14
# "Dance Dance Dance" – 3:56
# "Sandra" – 4:51
# "The Midi Dance" – 3:14
*The 2009 remastered reissue released by Cherry Pop Records features extended remixes of tracks 1, 3, 6 and 7