Gold: The Spandau Ballet Singles Poll

"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:

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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

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

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...

"Monochrome With Mullets" sounds like a lost Underworld single

In which Tony Hadley fails to invent the White Stripes:

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shurely that's Jim Kerr?

wtf is "Communication" going for

did you feel it let you down?

http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nsync.jpg

I feel like Tom Jones is going to rise up behind me and shout "NO" while smacking me across the head

Hadley looks more than ever like Tony Ganios from Porky's.

http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/5/y/5y9q5su21fyxq9sx.jpg

why's that N'Sync dude got trousers made out of wallpaper?

hahahahahahaha Lance Bass

dude is the living embodiment of the idea that every boy band has one dude who looks like a confused stuffed animal

T/S Barefoot 'N Sync dudes vs. 'N Sync dudes in flip-flops.

I do not even remember that dude in between Timberlake and Fat One.

"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

I do not even remember that dude in between Timberlake and Fat One.

... you don't remember the other lead singer?

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!

These are not lyrics, these are reasons for beatings.

xxp I do not.

T/S Barefoot 'N Sync dudes vs. 'N Sync dudes in flip-flops.

late nineties boy bands loved these polarities

np: "To Cut A Long Story Short"
mood: desperate to punch Spandau Ballet in the dick

these are reasons for beatings.

REASONS REASONS
were here from the start
it's my instinction
it's my instinction

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

iirc most of their long-running court battle was taken up with arguments about who didn't want credit for the lyrics

LOVING MAKES THE CREAM TASTE NICE

omg "Chant No 1"

this is hilarious, it's like "can we do a Gang of Four song, only... nice?"

LOVING MAKES THE CREAM TASTE NICE

Should be the name of the tribute album.

"She Loved Like Diamond" okay is this for real?

SHE LOVED LIKE DIAMOND
SHE LOVED LIKE DIAMOND
I HAVE A SPLINTER
IT HUUUUUUURTS

seriously – I've never heard laryngeal torture so prolonged

currently on "Paint Me Down", were these guys even trying on some of these songs

oh for the bland, unmemorable inoffensiveness of "Lifeline"

xp in re: "Diamond" - a top Spandau track, showing off Gary Kemp's "it means what I say it means" lyrical style

yes but "Lifeline" has the couplet:

So gentle when he tries to understand
This subterfuge he never really planned

Now remember when you're hearing all this that aero thinks this is superior to Duran Duran.

And speak of the devil.

actually that couple isn't bad

couplet too