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I see even they are getting th reissue treatment - is this just a step too far or have we forgotten their true genius?

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

If there was any one band ILX couldn't critically reappraise....

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 10:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

I used to walk past the shop where they had their teddy boy clothes made. It's shut down now, probably because of the lack of demand for garish teddy boy clothes recently.

Bloody hell - I see they are not just getting the reissue treatment, but every single album. And people still can't buy Stump's A Fierce Pancake. Has the world gone mad?

― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dion Dublin to thread!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dion Dublin to thread!

That's a myth, apparently. But I believed it for a long time too.

(That DD's dad was in Showaddywaddy, in case someone doesn't know what the fuck we're going on about.)

Now wasn't Scott Oakes's dad in Showaddywaddy for real?

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Scott Oakes' dad was in Showaddywaddy, yeah. Wasn't Steven Gerrard's dad in a band as well? Not Wang Chung, but someone like Wang Chung

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:15 (9 years ago) Permalink

You're all evading the subject - can they be rehabilitated or not?

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

They don't need rehabilitating, they never went away. They will always be as fashionable as they were thirty years ago.

Every single bleeding album. Who on earth do Cherry Red think is going to buy all that lot?

To be more than a little pretentious, they were the Inspiral Carpets of the glam-rock scene - never really cool but they put out a lot of excellent singles like Under the Moon of Love and, um, all the other ones. This isn't really working, is it?

― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

We have done this before.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well we'll just bloody do it again.

Showaddywaddy - no good. Sad but true.

didn't they have loads of hits? yet I can only remember Under The Moon Of Love.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

That other thread was an entirely different angle on the Wad, as I think we should now call them.

I'd love to get some of those reissues and discover that theya re geniuses of the highest order. But somehow I suspect it won;t happen.

― tigerclawskank, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

There's a discography here. Lots of hits. Four number twos (Hey Rock 'n' Roll, Three Steps to Heaven, You Got What It Takes, I Wonder Why) and a lot of other top five hits. Some of which I can not only remember, but are now playing in my head in a day-glo crepe-soled parade of doo-wop.

Bonus tracks. Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans, bonus tracks. The mind boggles.

― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Anyone remember when Stevo from Some Bizzare got the Shods to support Einsturzende Neubauten once.... that must have a right larf..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 20:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

I personally welcome the rerelease of the Showaddywaddy back catalogue, complete with bonus tracks. Perhaps Malcolm 'The Duke' Allured will be able to put extensions on all his pubs. I imagine there are enough die-hard Showaddywaddy fans to make the reissue programme commercially viable without relying on any kind of critical reappraisal, although I'd be quite happy to join in any kind of critical appraisal if anyone would let me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 31 May 2003 16:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

They were my favourite band when I was eight. I remember miming with tennis racket etc.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 31 May 2003 21:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

9 years pass...

I tried my best with them, I really did, but ultimately there comes a time when being "nice" and "professional" isn't remotely enough.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

drummer Romeo Challenger sure knew how to pick 'em, going from Black Widow to Showaddywaddy is some career change

― ゆの (zappi), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

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