Gold: The Spandau Ballet Singles Poll

oh god I'd forgotten how terribad "Skin Trade" is

but man "Notorious" and "I Don't Want Your Love" are immaculate production/arrangement jobs

heee I kinda love Skin Trade. mm sleazy cheese.

also Skin Trade sounds like the worst Prince coverband ever, which is another reason I love it

TS: that vs Ready for the World's "Oh Sheila."

OUT

"Skin Trade" has absolutely NOTHING in common with Ready For The World

oh man, Ready for The World. No contest.

Prince-pretenders I think is the commonality Ned is going for.

Thank you VG. And obviously "Oh Sheila" wins.

:D

word to Simon Le Bon - you gotta bring more than a falsetto to Prince it up

"Skin Trade" sounds nothing like a Prince song regardless of what LeBon is doing

RFTW is so much better than either of these bands it's not even funny

yeah suddenly I'm like, why are we even talking about Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet when RFTW is KILLING IT

structure is off, chord progressions are off, lyrics are off

Beck did a much much better job with... "Debra"? *listens* yes "Debra"

LET ME LOVE YOU DOWN <--- words to live by

also I had forgotten how incredible "Debra" is

yeah debra is the bomb. love that so much.

maybe we need a Pretend-Prince Songs thread.

Yeah but it will just turn out half of them were secretly written by Prince.

Ready for the World's "Digital Display" pretty awesome too

Coulda sworn we did a 'fake Prince' thread like that but this:

prince not prince

...is what Phil D is talking about.

ACtually at the moment I kinda want to hear "Sex Shooter" by Apollonia 6.

and "Strut."

STRUT. Yes.

Enjoy a little Solid Gold, won't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5TVDBD5heI

my favorite RFTW song is "Long Time Coming"

To avoid the wrath of aero I will just link this and bid you enjoyment.

Write-in vote for the 12" mix of "Glow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJTI1sEXCI

in the "Long Time Coming" video: is that black linguini on Melvin Riley's head?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

the only decent top six imaginable

I haven't looked at this thread for a day and suddenly it turns into a recreation of my hellish year in the fourth form (B3 to 84) at comprehensive school where the girls in my class all fell out with each other because they were either Duranies or Spandau freaks. Of course us boys were falling out over whether the Smiths were brilliant or useless whingebags. Such innocence.

ILX in "a bit like school" shocka!

SB vs DD, then a-ha as a unifying force for a year, then the girls who pretended not to care about what were essentially boy bands laughing at the Brosettes.
The boys falling out over whether Liverpool or Manchester Utd. were better, despite the school being hundreds of miles from either location.

oh and kicking the shit out of anyone who was even a tiny bit different, ie me and the rest of the chess club

when ppl threatened to kick the shit out of me, I'd matter-of-factly tell them not to try because I would seriously try to kill them and it would ruin both of our families

no one really tried to fight me after 7th grade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632o9gg7pdU

when ppl threatened to kick the shit out of me, I'd matter-of-factly tell them not to try because I would seriously try to kill them and it would ruin both of our families

DJP is Judd Nelson?!?!?!

flaring his nostril hairs at the camera

"B-O-O-H-O-O"

"YA KNOW WHAT I GOT FOR CHRISTMAS?"

y'all don't understand the secret advantages to being a smart black kid in a town terrified of black ppl

okay now it's sounding like an awesome version of Walking Tall

y'all don't understand the secret advantages to being a smart black kid in a town terrified of black ppl

Mr. Obama Goes To Salt Lake City

Never liked them a bit.

This thread made them sound pretty ridiculous though, so I listened (to laugh along) and it was def funny...

But now I can't stop listening to them! What the heck.

Only when you leeeave

So it turns out the song that I remember being played round my house loads and loads and loads when I was maybe 2-3 years old and has somehow stuck in my head all this time despite me not having heard it again until now was.... The Freeze! This is actually a very cool song and like Kitchen Person says upthread, very very funky.

Dunno if it's funky, but it does use "funk" elements.

omigod I'd FORGOTTEN THIS THREAD