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
was trying to think of bands that could have been spandau ballet if spandau ballet hadn't already existed
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Aimeej0rd0nian Ghoulcaper (NickB), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
jimmy sommerville and tony should have done a duet together imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
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
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
You mean the Stephen Duffy led Duran Duran?
― Mark G, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
D'oh!!!
No, the Le Bon/Rhodes/Taylor/Taylor/Taylor line-up, naturally!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
-original +'classic'
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
Was always disappointed that "These are my salad days, and this is my Salad" was never a lyric of theirs (or anybodys)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
I will go to my grave contending that Duran Duran's songs are and were almost total shit.
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
Everybody's got their blind spots.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
Midnight I think I'm gonna make itFeel the magical lash of the roll And the crash in their livesHeadline in tomorrow's papersKill that light it's so brightAnd you're shining it right in my eyes
CHORUSShow me your secret and tell me your nameCatch me with your fizzy smileTry to remember again and againWhat it is that I recogniseDon't ask me nowWhen I need you I don't know howTo believe in your adviceJust this once I take the dice
Midnight so what's the point of fakingFor a kiss or a whisper You pull out a desperate prizeHold tight onto Daddy's braceletMake them pay for their chancesWith money they don't think that's nice
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:59 (eleven 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
is that a lyric
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
here I stand again, the loser
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:23 (three 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