Gold: The Spandau Ballet Singles Poll

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

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

gross

Ha I knew that would be friggin' Classix Nouveaux

Nope, don't like Classix Nouveaux!!

was trying to think of bands that could have been spandau ballet if spandau ballet hadn't already existed

think that classix were maybe a lot closer to the true new romantic aesthetic than spandau though, who always seemed like a bunch of soul boys at heart

jimmy sommerville and tony should have done a duet together imo

Spandau Ballet may have had the better vocalist, but the (original line-up) Duran Duran had a better image and better songs.

Of course quality-wise I feel neither of them are a patch on Japan and Ultravox, but that's just me! :P

You mean the Stephen Duffy led Duran Duran?

D'oh!!!

No, the Le Bon/Rhodes/Taylor/Taylor/Taylor line-up, naturally!

-original +'classic'

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

We used to have Magic FM on in the morning for Dr Fox's unintentional hilarity and I couldn't help noticing the version they have of True edits out the sax solo. Presumably too raucous. Voted Communication, which has much to enjoy - that bit where the organ sounds like it's straining to inhale, "I'm-a left-a hee uh-huh", "Dick Tate!" etc

Was always disappointed that "These are my salad days, and this is my Salad" was never a lyric of theirs (or anybodys)

I will go to my grave contending that Duran Duran's songs are and were almost total shit.

Everybody's got their blind spots.

Midnight I think I'm gonna make it
Feel the magical lash of the roll
And the crash in their lives
Headline in tomorrow's papers
Kill that light it's so bright
And you're shining it right in my eyes

CHORUS
Show me your secret and tell me your name
Catch me with your fizzy smile
Try to remember again and again
What it is that I recognise
Don't ask me now
When I need you I don't know how
To believe in your advice
Just this once I take the dice

Midnight so what's the point of faking
For a kiss or a whisper
You pull out a desperate prize
Hold tight onto Daddy's bracelet
Make them pay for their chances
With money they don't think that's nice

People overrated Duran Duran because they had the reprehensible Spandau Ballet next to them. I like To Cut a Long Story Short and Chant No 1. The rest is bilge. Like Duran, they quickly dropped the punk-funk tension that was the only worthwhile thing about them and wrote mindbogglingly awful lyrics - Spandau did the same bad things as Duran but they did them much much worse.

Those random lyric generator programs are, um, pretty rubbish really, aren't they?

But they can be handy when you find it hard to write the next line.

"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