Bananarama - Classic Or Dud

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Mail on Sunday to give away Bananarama's greatest hits

http://tinyurl.com/ywac78

They're one of the greatest girl bands in British pop history ... and next week you'll get their latest album - featuring 15 of their original studio recordings of their greatest hits - FREE inside The Mail on Sunday.

if they'd done this a year ago i would've bought it ha

I always thought that they looked like Lambeth Council's Gender Equality Unit indulging in a bizarre attempt to look glam.

They were good pop music in the same way that Sainsburys is a good supermarket.

there was an article about this in the daily mail the other day

I picked up a reissue of Deep Sea Skiving in Paris. I'm not sure what to think of it. They didn't really "do" tunes at that stage, did they?

You don't think so? That's their best studio album!

I'm not saying it's bad!

I think I'm just surprised by it because my knowledge of their early stuff was basically limited to "Venus" and the Fun Boy 3 collab-o.

have you heard the other 1986 stuff? "A Trick of the Night" is something special. One of these days I have to write something about this.

the only group i own 20 singles by. wait, maybe that's not true. it's possible i own 20 madonna singles. i'll have to check...

Better than the Beatles.

IN AT THE DEEP END (1982-4)
BBC

(...)

The 'Rama show is ingrained in my memory for no reason.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:19 (2 years ago)

I remember this as well. Especially Heiney's earlier practice video with a typical lol80's pop/rock band, of which all I can remember is that the lyrics mentioned "burning" or "I'm on fire" or something, and Heiney cut to a red spotlight. His mentor later appraised the finished video with the words "er, that's... interesting" clearly meaning "er, that's shit..."

TS: Bananarama's Jolley & Swain years vs. Bananarama's Stock/Aitken/Waterman years.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/24/people-wet-knickers-bananarama-80s-trio-return

wtf at the link name

WTF at the comments!

ChrisD58 7h ago

It must be my age but personally I think they're better looking now than back then!!

Andrew Jones ChrisD58 6h ago

Whilst they do look damn good for their age (unlike me) I have to disagree. 80's Keren Woodward was a living goddess. Back then I would have slaughtered my entire family in return for a few hours in her company. Nowadays I'd only slaughter my sister in law.

Happy birthday, Siobhan!

https://youtu.be/8kjy1W4Gk_s