Gold: The Spandau Ballet Singles Poll

That said, the video is A+ insanity from Mulcahy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08M-9kHB_20

The Live Aid footage I saw on the DVD a few years ago horrified me. A solid perf of "Only When You Leave" but hoo boy those pants and hair.

I have to admit, until this thread I never spend much time, if any, looking at Spandau Ballet lyrics... kinda wish I hadn't! Hehehehehe... those lyrics to 'Paint Me Down', christ...

Look at my excerpt at the top of the page.

Waiting for Marcello to enter thread to denounce Hadley as a fascist twerp.

"Gold" or "True". Going with the latter, just because.

this is extremely difficult and I have a whole whole lot to say about it and neither the time nor the focus to say any of it

the actual candidates are "Gold," "Through the Barricades," "Chant No. 1" and "To Cut A Long Story Short" imo

and maybe "Only When You Leave"

the actual candidates are "Gold," "Through the Barricades,"

wow...I wish you WOULD expand!

voted 'chant no. 1' but i do genuinely love 'true'.

whole Parade album is slept-on imo

At the height of my Ferry-Bowie obsession in the early nineties -- when they were never more out of fashion -- I bought the '85 comp. "Round and Round" is okay. "I'll Fly For You" is gunk.

Hahahahahaha! It's ALL gunk as far as I'm concerned!! :D

The artist pretending it's art

The correct answer is The Freeze, one of the best singles of the 80's.

http://youtu.be/fjqH3ZypUVA

Listen to that funky bass line and the ridiculous keyboard solo at 1.35. I always thought this is the kind of song Franz Ferdinand were trying to write.

voting "Communication" though i probably would cringe if i listen to it right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAdK0_6DBPg

lifeline.

uggghhh so torn!

remember when the kemp brothers played the krays in that one movie

to cut a long story short

i really love 'through the barricades'

Why could I forget, VG?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJOiEn9v3I

I don't understand what's happening with Tony's outfit in To Cut a Long Story Short. It's like his jacket is slung over his shoulder but he's still wearing it?

He has such a stage look about him, esp profile/face. like a broadway lead or something. v theatrical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE2sCISQmpE

xpost ah bless your heart, Ned. I knew you'd know :)

Another bit of rough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4miZJvFdrY0

"oh hai, ladiez!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JVp6Ah0gTOY/TZi2N-XINjI/AAAAAAAAAHc/AvFDnDh5nBM/s1600/spandauthen.jpeg

loool

pop ALL the collars

I've found a picture that represents Tony Hadley's vocal stylings too! :D

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1XZzZ-anE-M/Ttviepy5CtI/AAAAAAAAAAk/sVJJkA4pc8U/s1600/sliced_ham-5892.jpg

THAT IS SO MEAN

he has a lovely singing voice

The Krays is a good movie!

I haven't seen it in yeeeeaaars. I remember renting it in high school and just mostly squeeing over the Kemps lol

ooh the whole thing is on youtube :D

Too bad it wasn't a musical.

Tony Hadley's vocal style is closer to: http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/melonmousse.html

Too bad it wasn't a musical.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 29, 2012 4:53 PM

cuz life is a hard prison wall?

lol

I was thinkign something more like

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkyWBByxryM/UDUcAb0FxnI/AAAAAAAABzY/nUnK_EkHk1c/s1600/big_SmokedGouda100L.jpg

With a gun in my hand
and your head on the floor
Dissolve the body? That's just begun
Listening to Reggie (all night long)
This is the sound of you dead...

http://www.theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/images/stories/NEW_MUSIC/robert_sandall/spandau-ballet.jpg

only when you KILL I need to love you

We're hiding corpses that will rot in the morning
The smell of pounds and hot babes surrounds us
Tough is the holster that's strapped to my belt
Strong are the bonds that we make

those are actual lyrics aren't they

Work till you're prison bound, baby

the artists pretending it's art

Ned I think you need to write this

"You two can write a Gary Kemp song!"

We two? You and I?

http://jimisroom.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Eurythmics_-_We_Too_Are_One-Front.jpg

"The King and Queen of Islington"

hoo siii la hoo si laaa hoooooooooo
the vision ah hay meeee hee haaayyyyyy
the ah is pretending is ahhhhhhhhhhh!
the queh stew ee where do yuuu aayyyyyyyy

"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

xpost, well it's very 'disco'. Think it instilled in me a love of that kind of patta-cakey rhythm + octave bass

so has anyone seen the documentary?

yeah it's fantastic, one of the very best best music docs i've ever seen. surprising to me because i'm not a fan particularly. the rare-footage-and-no-on-camera-interviews style really works and it's especially good if you dig the idea of 2 hours of rare mostly-80s footage. some great stuff in it. Gary Kemp comes across as a bit of an egotistical tosser sadly.

I think you meant "fortunately"

No, but I did read through Tony Hadley's 2005 book 'To Cut A Long Story Short' again recently. The state of the band circa Heart Like A Sky was a bit grim, to say the least.

there's some real good stuff on that record though - some of their lightest material in tone!

The doc wasn't bad, but it's disorienting watching a band selling out arenas in 1986 that weren't in the United States.

god that was like a boring episode of Behind the Music

loved the footage but god gary is such a twat

god god god

the ah-tist pretending it's aaaaaaaaarrrt

"The Freeze" would have been my pick of the handful I know: "erogenous zones win again".

is that a lyric

here I stand again, the loser

One day he'll build a statue with his hands
So gentle when he tries to understand
This subterfuge he never really planned
Now you're living in the lifeline

"She Loves Like Diamond" should be retitled "He Moans Like Bitchmode"

deeply slept on post from djp despite my love for "diamond"

lifeline is such a masterpiece

love is like a hard prison wall

a HIGH prison wall, s'il vous plais!

yeah ALFRED

I'm high now, alright

irl lol