Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy

I actually really love the acoustic version.

Wd probably pick the 12inch version of "Why" for maximum dancefloor mayhem

pvmic

I think I'd go for "Why?" - which is even more melodramatic - but yeah, why the hell not?

― noodle vague, Friday, 29 October 2004 03:08 (6 years ago)

weirdly i reffed this on ilx today also, in the daily mail thread

the b-side to this record is a lost balearic classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCZPBL7X6S8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_DWWE3cjgg

g'damn i just came to post that. instead i'll bump.

RIP Larry Steinbachek.

A shame!

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38597071

apart from them recording some of the great all-time records i keep obsessing over how great this video is and how fucking ground-breaking at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sARuFu-tc

bullshit straight boy indulgence but that vid makes me cry every time i watch it

also the 80s, you had to be there

Exceptional video. Just read the start of this thread, yikes.

2005 ILX wtf is wrong with you.

Song / vid all-time of course.

i remember hearing Peter Powell say "this is the most important record of the year" and i was lol Peter Powell lol important but he wasn't wrong and i don't remember seeing the video at the time but it's fucking brilliant

Video is classic, even the little breakfast sequence is so full of mood and nuance

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_DWWE3cjgg

this song reminds me of going to the Catholic Youth Activity Group disco at the St Pats Irish centre on a Thursday night and the smell of strongbow cider and dry ice, The Communards cover of Don't Leave Me This Way was another classic of that era. He seems like good people does Jimmy Somerville.

The not-so-hidden look of scorn on the old bloke's face! xp

Jimmy seems like definitely good people and i enjoy listening to Richard on Radio 4 of a saturday morning, but i think i've said here or somewhere the Bronskis are my favourite, "Hard Rain" is top 10 records ever

Larry Steinbachek was very cute. He died a few years ago at 56, sadly.