"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
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I look like Bryan Ferry, right? PLEASE tell me I look like him!"
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oQgeYrso_Cg/0.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
^^This has some post-Dundee fashion influence. xpost
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
isn't it "Highly Strung" that starts with the diplomat/laundromat couplet? In which case i refute yr initial statement.
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Hey, HEY! My hairstyle is up here!"
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qXMGsHO78hY/Sc056eBYfTI/AAAAAAAABzE/sNaO5K8ChR8/s400/Spandau+Ballet.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like you could subtitle half of these songs "(Why Would You Do That To A Perfectly Good Saxophone?)"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
This has some post-Dundee fashion influence
Wha'? Angelo?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Right then, gents, this'll be for the annual report for the stockholders."
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/120/0980186c375f4213ada847b31069eb13/l.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol "True" is on a completely different level from the other songs I just listened to
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
"I have a new creative vision...monochrome, with mullets."
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6K-7W5q5pGE/T7O0gekNPkI/AAAAAAAADQY/w6HSi3rx9s0/s1600/Spandau%2BBallet.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Example of same:
http://cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/9A6D00272397F3E7AAB6DD74228DB5F7.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
isn't it "Highly Strung" that starts with the diplomat/laundromat couplet? In which case i refute yr initial statement.― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:47 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funnily enough, I remember my mother telling a story about meeting Rachman(notorious slum landlord)'s wife in the laundromat, she was full of sob story about how tough her life was now, scrimping etc now her husb was in jail etc. Then the Rolls Royce came and picked her and her laundry up...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Monochrome With Mullets" sounds like a lost Underworld single
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
In which Tony Hadley fails to invent the White Stripes:
http://cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/0364C14B6BAEDBD4329D9D37A022A386.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
shurely that's Jim Kerr?
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is "Communication" going for
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
did you feel it let you down?
http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nsync.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like Tom Jones is going to rise up behind me and shout "NO" while smacking me across the head
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Hadley looks more than ever like Tony Ganios from Porky's.
http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/5/y/5y9q5su21fyxq9sx.jpg
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
why's that N'Sync dude got trousers made out of wallpaper?
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
hahahahahahaha Lance Bass
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
dude is the living embodiment of the idea that every boy band has one dude who looks like a confused stuffed animal
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
T/S Barefoot 'N Sync dudes vs. 'N Sync dudes in flip-flops.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I do not even remember that dude in between Timberlake and Fat One.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
"I'll Fly For You" is pretty good, what the hell
My takeaway so far is that SB should only ever do understated-yet-bombastic ballads
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
... you don't remember the other lead singer?
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Telex or tell me, but it’s always second-hand,I’m incognito but no rendezvous’s been planned…Dictate or relay, I could send it to your home,“Return to Sender” – I could sing it down the phone!
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
These are not lyrics, these are reasons for beatings.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
xxp I do not.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
late nineties boy bands loved these polarities
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
np: "To Cut A Long Story Short"mood: desperate to punch Spandau Ballet in the dick
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
these are reasons for beatings.
REASONS REASONSwere here from the start it's my instinctionit's my instinction
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
omigod:
Cheap bed,in the red sleep the words out of your head cold floor,nice and raw eat the meat that's on the floor high tide, some disguise loving makes the cream taste nice new shore,final score fresh demand,I'm wanting more this might not last too long so always take it this might not last too long so always take it
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
iirc most of their long-running court battle was taken up with arguments about who didn't want credit for the lyrics
― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
LOVING MAKES THE CREAM TASTE NICE
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
omg "Chant No 1"
this is hilarious, it's like "can we do a Gang of Four song, only... nice?"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Should be the name of the tribute album.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"She Loved Like Diamond" okay is this for real?
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
SHE LOVED LIKE DIAMONDSHE LOVED LIKE DIAMONDI HAVE A SPLINTER IT HUUUUUUURTS
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
seriously – I've never heard laryngeal torture so prolonged
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
currently on "Paint Me Down", were these guys even trying on some of these songs
oh for the bland, unmemorable inoffensiveness of "Lifeline"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
xp in re: "Diamond" - a top Spandau track, showing off Gary Kemp's "it means what I say it means" lyrical style
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
yes but "Lifeline" has the couplet:
So gentle when he tries to understand This subterfuge he never really planned
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Now remember when you're hearing all this that aero thinks this is superior to Duran Duran.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
And speak of the devil.