Gold: The Spandau Ballet Singles Poll

GHOST BUSTERS!

omigod they really have a song called "Nature of the Beast"

it's about guinea pigs

Making love through the barricades always seem like a convoluted and painful way to practise safe sex, if you ask me

not if your love is a hard prison wall

lol the only song I actually know here is "True"

Gold is some powerful inspirational shit.

remove words 3 thru 5 in that sentence maybe

Tell us more about the "punk-funk tension"! Sounds great.

BTW finally listened to some DD live albums and they might change your mind if you're a non-believer. GOOD LIVE BAND!!

Chant Number One used to be my favourite, but now it's between Instinction and Lifeline. Hmm. OK, Instinction, because Trevor Horn always wins.

hmm

I would like "Gold" a lot more if it was actually a full-on Swing Out Sister song

Tell us more about the "punk-funk tension"! Sounds great.

Babygirl, unpack yr sweaters and get FABULOUS in FALL gay homo queer &c 2012

It's the bongo bit that bugs me.

... potentially a good lyric that

the part that bugs me is the section in the verse where the melody just has nothing to do with the chord progression underneath it, to the point where it would sound like a mistake if dude didn't sing it exactly the same way every time

and the bongos are totally wasted

what's worse – Hadley's vocal, the sax solo, or the death throes of an asphyxiating goat?

or the death throes of an asphyxiating goat

Robin Gibb's on it?

I just listened to "Lifeline" and I've already forgotten how it went

"Round and Round" sounds like a showtune

oh I can't wait until you get a load of the singing on "She Loved Like Diamond."

"She Loved Like Diamond"

http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/neal.jpg

"Only When You Leave"... why is this evoking the image of Cory Haim combing his hair, giving his reflection the thumbs up, then jumping into his dad's convertible and driving off to school?

Now make it worse, imagine an Essex version of that.

sad the first response wasn't "why is there a convertible in Cory Haim's bathroom?"

imagine Billy Ocean singing it

Anyway, um, fight the power:

http://rokpool.com/files/artist/spandau2.jpg?1341478455

just skip to "To Cut a Long Story Short" and save yrself some pain

"I need something that shows I'm with it. Anything."

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/spandau-ballet.jpg

ugh boxing boots xp

"Headache pains bringing you down?"

http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/trashfan/spandauA2.jpg

Nobody told these fucktards that even in 1985 those clothes were ass.

"Instinction" sounds like someone completely failing to reproduce the funk stylings of Wa Wa Nee

"Introducing Donnie Wahlberg and the rest of...wait."

http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c565553ef01156e59ad36970c-800wi

Leningay Cowboys

Hype Williams would take one look at this and burn his cameras.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/3/24/1237897304947/Spandau-Ballet-in-New-Yor-001.jpg

Occupy Top Man

"Yes, ha ha ha, but we're all professional now. It's 1987, the stock market will never crash!"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uKYZGRNKPMA/SuGg5yAz6KI/AAAAAAAAAJU/RgawoMm7s6o/s320/spandau+ballet+good+pic.jpg

I still see so many young women on campus who tuck pants into their boots.

"Highly Strung" is surprisingly okay compared to the other songs I've heard so far, which means it's only slightly embarrassing sounding

oh wait I just got to the chorus, never mind

"I look like Bryan Ferry, right? PLEASE tell me I look like him!"

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oQgeYrso_Cg/0.jpg

^^This has some post-Dundee fashion influence. xpost

isn't it "Highly Strung" that starts with the diplomat/laundromat couplet? In which case i refute yr initial statement.

"Hey, HEY! My hairstyle is up here!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qXMGsHO78hY/Sc056eBYfTI/AAAAAAAABzE/sNaO5K8ChR8/s400/Spandau+Ballet.jpg

I feel like you could subtitle half of these songs "(Why Would You Do That To A Perfectly Good Saxophone?)"

This has some post-Dundee fashion influence

Wha'? Angelo?

"Right then, gents, this'll be for the annual report for the stockholders."

http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/120/0980186c375f4213ada847b31069eb13/l.jpg

lol "True" is on a completely different level from the other songs I just listened to

I still see so many young women on campus who tuck pants into their boots.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:44 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm amazed young women still want to tuck their pants into Spandau Ballet's boots...

"I have a new creative vision...monochrome, with mullets."

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6K-7W5q5pGE/T7O0gekNPkI/AAAAAAAADQY/w6HSi3rx9s0/s1600/Spandau%2BBallet.jpg

I feel like you could subtitle half of these songs "(Why Would You Do That To A Perfectly Good Saxophone?)"

Example of same:

http://cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/9A6D00272397F3E7AAB6DD74228DB5F7.jpg

A bit of the outback in those pants and blousy shirt (ealier up there).

Note to blonde: Flashdance look does not work for men.

I like to think they are now bought and kept, living in Monaco for command concerts when the sultan requests their presence.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/11/article-1365327-041730DD000005DC-171_634x366.jpg