― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I love "Ghosts," and quite agree with Ned about what it indicates re: UK pop charts circa early 80s. It's weirder than, say, Bjork ever having another hit in the U.S.
It's my girlfriend's most beloved Japan track. When she first heard it (on a prototype of the 'Heart' mix from my '81 set) she phoned from her car just to ask what it was and say that she loved it.
― I.M. (I.M.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Haha, hey Ian!
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
And only the verse is monotonal.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
The way the simple melody breaks out in the chorus after the noodly verse is ace. And number 5? When you had to sell a lot of singles. Must have been the cheekbones.
(I have a problem with fretless bass that it took me a long time to get over.)
― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Even the hilarious first two albums have several suprisingly not bad slices of sexy glam-funk on them (I'm thinking in particular of "Suburban Love" from "Adolescent Sex").
I wont for a minute defend their horrible cover of "Don't Rain on my Parade" though, yeugrh.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
of interest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NPhQjjZB0Pa Salieu • Bang Out
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
that's awesome
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 27 September 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
very interesting.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Monday, 28 September 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
At the time I wrote them off as Bowie copyist poseurs (I was a KID!), and I didn't really go for their Smokey cover, but this song utterly seduced me. It has its own kind of genius.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 28 September 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link