"Gold" or "True". Going with the latter, just because.
― jetfan, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
and maybe "Only When You Leave"
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
the actual candidates are "Gold," "Through the Barricades,"
wow...I wish you WOULD expand!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
voted 'chant no. 1' but i do genuinely love 'true'.
― balls, Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
whole Parade album is slept-on imo
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 October 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Hahahahahaha! It's ALL gunk as far as I'm concerned!! :D
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
The artist pretending it's art
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 October 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
voting "Communication" though i probably would cringe if i listen to it right now.
― go San Francisco Giants! (Bee OK), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAdK0_6DBPg
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
lifeline.
― piscesx, Monday, 29 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
uggghhh so torn!
remember when the kemp brothers played the krays in that one movie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
to cut a long story short
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i really love 'through the barricades'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Why could I forget, VG?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJOiEn9v3I
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
xpost ah bless your heart, Ned. I knew you'd know :)
Another bit of rough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4miZJvFdrY0
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
"oh hai, ladiez!"
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JVp6Ah0gTOY/TZi2N-XINjI/AAAAAAAAAHc/AvFDnDh5nBM/s1600/spandauthen.jpeg
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
THAT IS SO MEAN
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
he has a lovely singing voice
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
The Krays is a good movie!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't seen it in yeeeeaaars. I remember renting it in high school and just mostly squeeing over the Kemps lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
ooh the whole thing is on youtube :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Too bad it wasn't a musical.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Tony Hadley's vocal style is closer to: http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/melonmousse.html
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
With a gun in my handand your head on the floorDissolve the body? That's just begunListening to Reggie (all night long)This is the sound of you dead...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/images/stories/NEW_MUSIC/robert_sandall/spandau-ballet.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
only when you KILL I need to love you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 beltStrong are the bonds that we make
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
those are actual lyrics aren't they
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Work till you're prison bound, baby
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
the artists pretending it's art
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Ned I think you need to write this
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
"You two can write a Gary Kemp song!"
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
We two? You and I?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://jimisroom.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Eurythmics_-_We_Too_Are_One-Front.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
"The King and Queen of Islington"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
hoo siii la hoo si laaa hoooooooooothe vision ah hay meeee hee haaayyyyyythe ah is pretending is ahhhhhhhhhhh!the queh stew ee where do yuuu aayyyyyyyy
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNau8Kp-E0
^ what do you guys think of this lot? always thought of them as being like an early spandau but fronted by ming the merciless instead of that plank hadley
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
gross
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
Ha I knew that would be friggin' Classix Nouveaux
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
Nope, don't like Classix Nouveaux!!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 10 November 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
Only when you leeeave
― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Saturday, 10 November 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 09:30 (ten years ago) link
Dunno if it's funky, but it does use "funk" elements.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
omigod I'd FORGOTTEN THIS THREAD
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
xpost, well it's very 'disco'. Think it instilled in me a love of that kind of patta-cakey rhythm + octave bass
― An embarrassing doorman and garbage man (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
so has anyone seen the documentary?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 July 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I think you meant "fortunately"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
there's some real good stuff on that record though - some of their lightest material in tone!
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
The doc wasn't bad, but it's disorienting watching a band selling out arenas in 1986 that weren't in the United States.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
god that was like a boring episode of Behind the Music
loved the footage but god gary is such a twat
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 February 2016 05:02 (eight years ago) link
god god god
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 February 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
the ah-tist pretending it's aaaaaaaaarrrt
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 April 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
"The Freeze" would have been my pick of the handful I know: "erogenous zones win again".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
is that a lyric
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
here I stand again, the loser
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
One day he'll build a statue with his handsSo gentle when he tries to understandThis subterfuge he never really plannedNow you're living in the lifeline
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 March 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
"She Loves Like Diamond" should be retitled "He Moans Like Bitchmode"
deeply slept on post from djp despite my love for "diamond"
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 12 March 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
lifeline is such a masterpiece
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 12 March 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
love is like a hard prison wall
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 March 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
a HIGH prison wall, s'il vous plais!
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 12 March 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
yeah ALFRED
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
I'm high now, alright
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 March 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
irl lol
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 12 March 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link