Wow, where has that demo version of "Temptation" been all my life? I love the Numan-esque arrangement, and the deadpan female voice somehow brings into focus something I'd always missed, that the lyric is about a man's terror of getting his girlfriend pregnant.
― I Advance Masked (Vast Halo), Friday, 25 June 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Sounds like Deborah Evans-Stickland from the Flying Lizards doing the deadpan vocals...
According to this (below) it's a German student they knew but Claudia Brücken used to join them to do it in concert:
https://postpunkmonk.com/2013/02/14/a-young-persons-guide-to-heaven-17-temptation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-wp0Mywpf4
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 25 June 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
Wow, where has that demo version of "Temptation" been all my life?
My first time hearing it too. Great.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
Re the Questions, yeah I like it, bought it at the time. But in this company, it seems odd to have escaped any snark. Maybe Paul Weller was a mate, or hopefully might be...
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 June 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link
Shame they were about five years late for electroclash with releasing that demo. Would have seemed like a scam in 2001.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 26 June 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Surely, an upset...
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:11 (two years ago) link