Wow. I haven't seen this in years. Thanks, Subby.

I do have a test today. That wasn't bullshiat. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who cares if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

what in the world was that? i had no idea what was going on in that video.

tgregory: what in the world was that? i had no idea what was going on in that video.

It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.

I'm having a seizure. Teddy, is that you?

The filmclip was rad.

What in the cornbread hell.

It was the hair. It was always the hair.

/Off my lawn

Wow. That was so bad, it was good. You gotta wonder what was going through the director's mind at the time. Did he think he was making something real "edgy, and in your face"? Or was he just jerking off like the rest of them...?

/Stay off my lawn, too

Theres a reason they were one hit wonders.

I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."

One hit wonder to you maybe, subby.

Tony James- always liked that guy. Loved Vision Thing when he was in the Sisters. and of course Gen X with Billy Idol.

As for SSS, I got this EP when it was released back in the day. It never did much for me but I liked it ok. There was so much hype around it at the time from NME, Melody Maker, etc. It's almost like you had to own a copy of it.

sonnyboy11: Tony James- always liked that guy. Loved Vision Thing when he was in the Sisters. and of course Gen X with Billy Idol.

As for SSS, I got this EP when it was released back in the day. It never did much for me but I liked it ok. There was so much hype around it at the time from NME, Melody Maker, etc. It's almost like you had to own a copy of it.



yes, you have to give it to toni James for surrouding this band with so much hype and then swindle EMI with a multi-million deal

great song...

Personally I like the version where they don't censor "Some unknown gino giving head" and having Blade Runner audio mixed in.

Atari, baby.

Awsome, havn't seen this vid in years--oh the good times--luv the 80's..........

Weaps: tgregory: what in the world was that? i had no idea what was going on in that video.

It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.


It usually takes twenty or thirty questions, cross-referenced.

And they kept re-releasing mix after mix of that same song ad infinitum. They were Georgio Moroder's answer to Trevor Horn's manufacture of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Both bands were true manifestations of what Malcolm McLaren inacurately claimed he did with the Sex Pistols. Sigue, Sigue Sputnik literally translated meant "burn, burn sattellite" and were named after a notorious gang of Soviet pickpockets. The Billy Idol look a like always cracked me up--he seemed like an answer to a question no one asked. They actually did an OK job worming their way onto unlikely US TV shows. Dateline NBC did a segment on them as the "next big thing" several years after they were yesterday's news in the UK and they even managed to get on a Superbowl postgame show about Europeans who were into American football.

Even though they were poseurs and pikers, they were somewhat influential. Some of the effects from that video ended up in U2's Zoo TV tour and the work of the KLF.

Thanks for the great memory. I'll have to dig out that old CD and load it on the ipod.

The commercials made that record.


The ULTIMATE in rubber!



/I actually liked the whole LP.

But then again I liked Renegade Soundwave and Pop Will Eat Itself, too.

And here's 21st Century Boy (new window).

Still have that album "Flaunt It". Those guys really were ahead of their time, especially in terms of marketing and promotion.

spartan.117: Personally I like the version where they don't censor "Some unknown gino a mondo teeno giving head" and having Blade Runner audio mixed in.

fixed. Actual lyric.

They still exist, in some form or another:
Sputnik World (new window)

I saw this group live. It was actually a great show.
No, really.

Yup One of the best albums ever. Not a one hit wonder band, quite successful considering how much they got from EMI Records..

was that about drugs or sex? i couldn't tell for sure...maybe both. sex with drugs? drugs on sex....i don't know...

emocomputerjock: What in the cornbread hell.

What he said... I'm confused.

Definitely annoying, but also ahead of their time for their
cynical exploitation of media companies and their appropriation
of the Japanese pop culture look that has since suffused all of
world media.

Sadly, this was SSS's only good song. Their other stongs were rather bland, and often sounded the same.

I remember seeing this in stores back in the 80's, but I never heard it till today.

Doesn't look like I missed much.

The album had ads mixed between the tracks. I burnt that cassette up in my biatchin' camaro.

/I can haz dead milkmen

British: Sadly, this was SSS's only good song. Their other stongs were rather bland, and often sounded the same.

Shut your whore mouth! (new window)NSFW

(Okay, this Fan-made vid sucks, but the song rocks.N)Again, NSFW

Charting somewhere in the double-digits ain't a "hit". Popularity aside, which is meaningless as a benchmark of quality, their music sucked ass then and it sucks even more now.

SSS was a product manufactured by a record company. They selected several individuals based on their outward appearance and placed instruments into their hands, regardless of their total lack of ability. Basically, a "boy band" but with less talent. They then trained these monkeys to play some songs written by someone else.

Anyone who fell for it should be ashamed.

I fell for SSS. And I fell for the Monkees too. I like what I like

/Tork Tork Tork

The extended mix of Dancerama is still one of my favorite songs.