Gary Kemp had a few 'visibilities' i.e. attempts at music before succeeding with that one. Check an episode of "You must be joking" where he's in an acoustic double-act with Phil Daniels on one song...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
voting "Communication" though i probably would cringe if i listen to it right now
My exact first thought too,. Bet "Only When You Leave" holds up.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
I ultimately voted for "Only When You Leave."
How omnipresent were their singles in the UK? The band was pretty huge in Europe through '87.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
really really really omnipresent
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Spent too mcuh attention as a teenager as a teenager parsing
It is the key to all the doorsIt is the crashing on the shoresIt lives in your steering wheelIt hides in the wind and rainWith voices as cold as steelIt's calling your name
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
GHOST BUSTERS!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
omigod they really have a song called "Nature of the Beast"
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's about guinea pigs
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Making love through the barricades always seem like a convoluted and painful way to practise safe sex, if you ask me
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
not if your love is a hard prison wall
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
lol the only song I actually know here is "True"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Gold is some powerful inspirational shit.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
remove words 3 thru 5 in that sentence maybe
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Tell us more about the "punk-funk tension"! Sounds great.
BTW finally listened to some DD live albums and they might change your mind if you're a non-believer. GOOD LIVE BAND!!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Planetary Gearbox (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Chant Number One used to be my favourite, but now it's between Instinction and Lifeline. Hmm. OK, Instinction, because Trevor Horn always wins.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
hmm
I would like "Gold" a lot more if it was actually a full-on Swing Out Sister song
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Babygirl, unpack yr sweaters and get FABULOUS in FALL gay homo queer &c 2012
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's the bongo bit that bugs me.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
... potentially a good lyric that
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
the part that bugs me is the section in the verse where the melody just has nothing to do with the chord progression underneath it, to the point where it would sound like a mistake if dude didn't sing it exactly the same way every time
and the bongos are totally wasted
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
what's worse – Hadley's vocal, the sax solo, or the death throes of an asphyxiating goat?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
or the death throes of an asphyxiating goat
Robin Gibb's on it?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
I just listened to "Lifeline" and I've already forgotten how it went
"Round and Round" sounds like a showtune
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh I can't wait until you get a load of the singing on "She Loved Like Diamond."
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
"She Loved Like Diamond"
http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/neal.jpg
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
"Only When You Leave"... why is this evoking the image of Cory Haim combing his hair, giving his reflection the thumbs up, then jumping into his dad's convertible and driving off to school?
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Now make it worse, imagine an Essex version of that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
sad the first response wasn't "why is there a convertible in Cory Haim's bathroom?"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
imagine Billy Ocean singing it
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, um, fight the power:
http://rokpool.com/files/artist/spandau2.jpg?1341478455
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
just skip to "To Cut a Long Story Short" and save yrself some pain
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
"I need something that shows I'm with it. Anything."
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/spandau-ballet.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
ugh boxing boots xp
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Headache pains bringing you down?"
http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/trashfan/spandauA2.jpg
Nobody told these fucktards that even in 1985 those clothes were ass.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Instinction" sounds like someone completely failing to reproduce the funk stylings of Wa Wa Nee
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Introducing Donnie Wahlberg and the rest of...wait."
http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c565553ef01156e59ad36970c-800wi
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Leningay Cowboys
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Hype Williams would take one look at this and burn his cameras.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/3/24/1237897304947/Spandau-Ballet-in-New-Yor-001.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Occupy Top Man
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
"Yes, ha ha ha, but we're all professional now. It's 1987, the stock market will never crash!"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uKYZGRNKPMA/SuGg5yAz6KI/AAAAAAAAAJU/RgawoMm7s6o/s320/spandau+ballet+good+pic.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I still see so many young women on campus who tuck pants into their boots.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
"Highly Strung" is surprisingly okay compared to the other songs I've heard so far, which means it's only slightly embarrassing sounding
oh wait I just got to the chorus, never mind
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I look like Bryan Ferry, right? PLEASE tell me I look like him!"
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oQgeYrso_Cg/0.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
^^This has some post-Dundee fashion influence. xpost
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
isn't it "Highly Strung" that starts with the diplomat/laundromat couplet? In which case i refute yr initial statement.
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Hey, HEY! My hairstyle is up here!"
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qXMGsHO78hY/Sc056eBYfTI/AAAAAAAABzE/sNaO5K8ChR8/s400/Spandau+Ballet.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like you could subtitle half of these songs "(Why Would You Do That To A Perfectly Good Saxophone?)"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
This has some post-Dundee fashion influence
Wha'? Angelo?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Right then, gents, this'll be for the annual report for the stockholders."
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/120/0980186c375f4213ada847b31069eb13/l.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link