Wendy McDonald is a single/live EP by Spookey Ruben

Spookey Ruben

Spookey Ruben is a Toronto-based musician, composer and video director. Due to his father's work as a space engineer Spookey grew up in Germany, Holland, and Washington, D.C. He spent his teenage years playing in array of hardcore and speed metal bands...

, released in 1996. The live tracks were recorded in July 1996 at Club Quattro, in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, and includes a cover of Golden Brown

Golden Brown

"Golden Brown" is a song by the English rock band The Stranglers. It was released as a 7" single in December 1981 in the US and in January 1982 in the UK, on Liberty...

 by The Stranglers

The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...

. The album also includes a remix of Wendy McDonald by DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky

Paul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...

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Reviews

In Allmusic, reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the album, "an entertaining run through his back catalog, highlighted by a cover of the Stranglers' "Golden Brown."

Track listing

1. "Wendy McDonald"
2. "It's Not What you Do It's You" (live)
3. "Crystal Cradle" (live)
4. "These Days are Old" (live)
5. "Golden Brown" (live)
6. "Wendy McDonald" (live)
7. "Wendy McDonald" (DJ Spooky Drift Remix)