Utterly, totally correct. It's a grueling, grinding mess that is a prime counterargument to Waterman's self-belief that he's a flawless master of perfect pop. It just isn't so.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was going to make that comparison but I thought that might be too cruel.
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
the early stuff is the best ("shy boy" is my favourite), but even when they started shedding members* they were still could churn out good singles ("preacher man", cover of "long train running" i'm thinking of in particular)
*haha at one point i thought they might get down to 0 and still release records in an electric prunes kinda way!
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like Dramarama though.
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Y'all on crack? You're not paining me on that front!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 22 August 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 22 August 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally-zay (mlescaut), Friday, 22 August 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 22 August 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also liked their post SAW single, the one with the woooh wooohs on it.
I'm glad someone has pointed out that they were WAY better than Shakespeare's Sister. It was always amusing how Siobhan Fahey left the Narns because she wanted to make "serious" music and instead just made SHITE.
mmmm, Bananarama.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 25 August 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bananarama Makes Comebackhttp://www.arjanwrites.com/arjanwrites/2005/07/bananarama_make.html
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Didn't matter.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― keren's toyboy, Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
ok it's "can't get you out of my head" redux and the tax bill probably came through the post, but i find it rather a fetching single and wouldn't mind if it became their first (!) number one.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 25 July 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Monday, 25 July 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Second single off new album "Look On The Floor" is really rather good. It's based around 80s Itali-disco classic "Hypnotic Tango" (well, I hear it's a classic. I'm actually only familiar with the recent Master Blaster cover version from 2003). Gasp, I might even be looking forward to "Drama" now...
― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.almightyisis.com/images/bbimages/bananarama.jpg
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
i love cruel summer.
― jaime, Thursday, 27 April 2006 06:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
with one guitar, a bottle of whisky and a broken heart, you could own that song.
― Danny boy, Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
IN AT THE DEEP END (1982-4)BBC
DULL THAT'S LIFERS CHRIS SERLE and PAUL HEINEY attempt to "do" various "glamour" jobs - photographer, auctioneer, fashion designer etc. Best ones - Heiney conceives and directs that awful video for Bananarama's "Trick of the Night" (helping it reach the giddy heights of number 32) and Serle gives Jilly Cooper an "adventurous" new hairstyle for an awards ceremony (she looked like utter shit.) Titles, puzzlingly, evoked the "swimming pool orgy" scene from THE STUD. A mixed bag, but all in all a much preferable 'Life spin-off than THE BIG TIME.
The 'Rama show is ingrained in my memory for no reason.
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 4 June 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 4 June 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
This is the song Rita and Sue dance to in front of the TV in "Rita Sue and Bob Too" :)
― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 4 June 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
whatever next !
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.
― djmartian, Sunday, 29 July 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
if they'd done this a year ago i would've bought it ha
― blueski, Sunday, 29 July 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― PhilK, Monday, 30 July 2007 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
there was an article about this in the daily mail the other day
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― Tim F, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
You don't think so? That's their best studio album!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not saying it's bad!
― Tim F, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― scott seward, Monday, 22 October 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Better than the Beatles.
― Freedom, Monday, 27 April 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
(...)
― 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..."
― snoball, Monday, 27 April 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
TS: Bananarama's Jolley & Swain years vs. Bananarama's Stock/Aitken/Waterman years.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 27 April 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/24/people-wet-knickers-bananarama-80s-trio-return
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Monday, 24 April 2017 05:15 (seven years ago) link
wtf at the link name
― Mark G, Monday, 24 April 2017 10:51 (seven years ago) link
WTF at the comments!
ChrisD58 7h agoIt must be my age but personally I think they're better looking now than back then!!Andrew Jones ChrisD58 6h agoWhilst 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.
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.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
Happy birthday, Siobhan!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/8kjy1W4Gk_s
― 这是我的显示名称 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link