― Daniel, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3395823.stm
Twenty years ago this week, the BBC banned the song Relax, by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, thereby catapulting it to legendary status, and the number one slot. The censors are more savvy today, but are we more tolerant?
...20 years ! ago
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
Above all else, the whole thing shows how different things were when the BBC was run by people from the pre-pop generation, and therefore had different priorities - values of the pre-pop world were imposed upon pop music, even on its "own" radio station, to an extent unthinkable now (Mike Read set John Betjeman poems to music for fuck's sake, and I *like* Betjeman and all that, but the very fact that such a person could present the Radio 1 breakfast show sums up the reasons why pirate radio supporters would have preferred the offshore stations to continue "underground" or at least be replaced by licensed commercial radio rather than by pop radio within the BBC, and why so many of them unexpectedly voted Tory in 1970 largely because Heath was making noises about licensing commercial radio and possibly abolishing Radio 1).
It's no coincidence that the big changes at Radio 1 happened at a time - roughly 10 years ago - when the post-war pop generation were, for the first time, taking up senior positions in BBC management, and the old guard were retiring (although Radio 1 had done a U-turn on censorship under the old Johnny Beerling regime a couple of years before the clearout of 1993-95, cf Salt'n'Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex" becoming a Roadshow hit - this was probably inspired by the arrival of MTV Europe and many more FM commercial stations around 1990).
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
Do You Know The Way To San Jose? vs. Born to Run
― The Hood Won't Jump (Eazy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't heard the former but their Born to Run cover is one of the greatest things ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTStMImOtuU
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
What she just said.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, when I first heard the Bruce Springsteen version, I was kinda disappointed how bland it sounded compared to the FGtH version.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Power of Love" is one of those songs that's not actually a Christmas song but is always associated with this time of year. It was a hit in early December, the vid was Christmassy and the sentiments are lovely.
― anagram, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/1/3/6/26136.jpg
― 3-D MUTANT PENGUIN TITS! (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 August 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
always curious about that game - got near perfect score in zzap! 64 back in the day, iirc
― tea wrecks electric warrior (haitch), Sunday, 1 August 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally freaking impenetrable to a 10 yr old ZX Spectrum owner, beautiful artwork and packaging tho'
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Sunday, 1 August 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Soooo I'm just now getting around to hearing Welcome to the Pleasuredome (...the album...) for the first time.
Holy shit, where has this been all my life?!
― ilxor, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
you tell us.its not like ILM'rs have not given you pointers re the brilliance of this album.
― mark e, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
sorry - that was not meant to come over as confrontational .. its an absolutely brilliant album.
― mark e, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
I love it although admittedly you can hear Trevor Horn start to lose some interest in the second half of the album
― . (Michael B), Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
All good, I knew it was huge back in the day, I've heard it recommended before, it's just one of those records I never got around to playing until now. Purchased it on CD back in 2012-13 and forgot about it until I was unpacking some boxes today and threw it on.
― ilxor, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
I am an unabashed fan of the unpopular end of this record, even Krisco Kisses.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
oooh .. that's pushing it.btw : you absolutely need the FRUITNESS version of "Welcome …"easily the best version.
― mark e, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Cosign on “Fruitness” being the ideal mix, the opening back-to-the-garden monologue especially
― You can’t see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
I couldn’t believe what Krisco Kisses was about when I found out.
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
Weird time of year to hear this, but then it’s one of those Christmas tunes which doesn’t mention Christmas. This is the best mix IMO
https://youtu.be/fX9UJAX7nWM
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 July 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
I remember reciting Paul Morley's perverted liner notes ("lick the shit off my shoe!" or words to that effect) on the back of the Relax 12" to my family as we were settling down for dinner at the Golden Grill in Limerick. I was 7 at the time.
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
Fgth had so many amazing remixes. There must have been 4 or 5 "two tribes" ones. I'd never heard that "power of love" one before. Fantastic.
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/IBWY8oAnnww
― nate woolls, Sunday, 7 July 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
Reunion
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-to-reunite-for-eurovision-song-contest/
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:02 (eleven months ago) link
Frankie Says Don't Bother
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
HooHaaHoo-haa
Frankie Goes To Hollywood❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/Ce3rSJyDbL— Hapertje (@Hapertje) May 7, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:21 (eleven months ago) link
More clips and things
https://www.stereogum.com/2222960/frankie-goes-to-hollywood-original-lineup-reunion/news/
The animals are winding me UP
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:51 (eleven months ago) link
Hapertje
Lovely that Mike Love was able to fill in for Rutherford.
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Monday, 8 May 2023 00:59 (eleven months ago) link
Couldn't get to the end of that. Awful.
― Fried Egg Sandwich, Monday, 8 May 2023 10:04 (eleven months ago) link
I dunno, sounded good to me. And coming on, playing just one song, and it's not Relax or Two Tribes, is pretty great. Definitely in keeping with their original spirit.
― Position Position, Monday, 8 May 2023 13:44 (eleven months ago) link