So come on Pinefox, what *do* you see in Go West?

I do love "King of Wishful Thinking."

only found out this was a GW song about two weeks ago, having had it intermittently stuck in my head for about 17 years, even though the last and only time I heard it before that was on a tannoy in Toys R' Us the year it came out. The second listen was kind of disappointing

Wi Close Ah Wyes is a fuckin banger though

Whitney's I Wanna Dance With Somebody has it too. Actually lots of eighties songs do - why?????

Jam and Lewis perfected it. Listen to almost Janet Jackson single and Human League's "Human."

perhaps the pinefox's refusal to be goaded (Carmoded?) by the slightly confrontational thread title is commendable

"We Close Our Eyes" is great. Dunno about the rest although I was kind of surprised by "Faithful" being quite good several years later.

Thank you, MP4xA. Maybe it doesn't need answering? I like them! Love some of their records.

Grandpoint Genie, good stuff - but I don't especially agree about the falling-off. I think I like 'Call Me' more ... maybe even 'Don't Look Down' too? And there are many other fine Go West tracks. Most of them, on the first two LPs ... it's only with the third, Indian Summer, that things went in the wrong direction.

Random play of '90s hit box set gave me their cover version of "Tracks of My Tears" (UK #16, 1993) last week; it made me giggle how he sang "People say I'm the life of the party / Because I tell a joke or two" sounding like the boringest dullest dude ever.

Didn't they turn up on v silly quasibetshow "Banzai" in some egg-to-forehead-based shenanigans about a decade ago btw?

https://youtu.be/af6L1jBZGYA