Eligible Bachelors

Eligible Bachelors
Studio album by The Monochrome Set
Released	1982
Recorded	Quest Studios, Luton
Genre	Post-punk
Label	Cherry Red
Producer	Tim Hart
The Monochrome Set chronology
Love Zombies (1980) Eligible Bachelors (1982) Volume, Contrast, Brilliance... (1983)

Eligible Bachelors is the third album by English post-punk band The Monochrome Set.

It was produced by former Steeleye Span member Tim Hart and was the Monochromes Set's first album since the departure of original drummer John Haney. Trouser Press praised the band's "witty intelligence" and said that the album "strips the music down to essential elements — clean, bouncy melodies and gently satirical verse, performed with deceptive facility." [1]

The original LP had a faux white leather sleeve designed by Tom Hardy, better known as guitarist Lester Square. The back cover's liner notes featured raves about the band from various critics from around the world, including London, New York, San Francisco, Japan and Kansas.

Track listing

Side one

1. "The Jet Set Junta" (Bid, Andrew Warren, Lester Square)
2. "I'll Scry Instead" (Bid)
3. "On the 13th Day" (Bid, Warren, Square)
4. "Cloud 10" (Bid, Warren, Square)
5. "The Mating Game" (Bid, Warren, Square)
6. "March of the Eligible Bachelors" (Square)

Side two

1. "The Devil Rides Out" (Bid, Square)
2. "Fun for All the Family" (J.D. Haney, Bid, Warren, Square)
3. "The Midas Touch" (Haney, Bid)
4. "The Ruling Class" (Bid)
5. "The Great Barrier Riff" (Bid, Warren)

Personnel

• Bid - Lead vocals, guitar
• Lester Square - Lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Andrew Warren - Bass guitar, vocals
• Lexington Crane - Drums, vocals