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(Contact Music) Sappy Spandau Ballet to reform for tour and new album. The Style Council, Godley & Creme, Eddie Brickell, Kajagoogoo, Honeymoon Suite and Modern English soon expected to record brand new insipid and annoying ballads   (contactmusic.com) divider line 36
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awfulperson [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 11:34:20 AM  
Aughh, aughh-aughh, aughhhhh, aughh.

/hopes this much ain't true

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 11:45:55 AM  
Because of Vice City, Everytime I think of this band, it reminds me of creating major carnage while GOLD is playing in the background

 
40below [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 11:56:38 AM  
Maybe if they recorded some sort of tuneless garbage with Uzis for percussion while dropping the F-bomb every other word while rapping about their Bentley, their Cristal and their wang, they'd be accepted as acceptably edgy by today's generation of "music" fans - i.e. 'morons.'

/ lawn
// off

 
FeedTheCollapse 2009-02-15 12:23:43 PM  
40below: Maybe if they recorded some sort of tuneless garbage with Uzis for percussion while dropping the F-bomb every other word while rapping about their Bentley, their Cristal and their wang, they'd be accepted as acceptably edgy by today's generation of "music" fans - i.e. 'morons.'

/ lawn
// off



crappy modern pop does not excuse crappy pop music from the past.

 
40below [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 01:02:07 PM  
FeedTheCollapse: crappy modern pop does not excuse crappy pop music from the past.

You don't know what the sound is dawning.
It's the sound of my tears falling -
Or is it the rain?

 
Fear_and_Loathing [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 01:15:01 PM  
I dunno, I lived through their first incarnation.

I still read it as Spandex Ballet.

Yes, it is a phobia!

 
Stay Cool Babylon 2009-02-15 02:50:17 PM  
As a speaker nut, I use "True" as a test level source. Everyone else uses "Dark Side of the Moon," but I had to be ironic, right?

/seriously, it's well engineered.
//forgot the hyphen, so my entire point is now invalid

 
Mega_Doof 2009-02-15 03:09:48 PM  
Style Council was pretty good.

/Paul Weller with a Rickenbacker 330 ftw

 
Hoopy Frood 2009-02-15 03:31:22 PM  
Stay Cool Babylon: As a speaker nut, I use "True" as a test level source. Everyone else uses "Dark Side of the Moon," but I had to be ironic, right?

/seriously, it's well engineered.
//forgot the hyphen, so my entire point is now invalid


Lolwut? Godley & Creme did more than their fair share of studio engineering over the years, IIRC.

 
Sylvia_Bandersnatch 2009-02-15 03:36:33 PM  
Fark should have some kind of preview so that subbies can proof their posts before committing them and avoid embarrassing errors. Of course, this would depend on subbies actually using it.

 
Jamdug! 2009-02-15 03:43:55 PM  
Edie not eddie.

 
Henry Holland 2009-02-15 03:48:22 PM  
To cut a long story short, they've lost their mind.

Eddie Brickell

It's gosh darn cereal box religion, you know.

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-02-15 03:48:26 PM  
Sometimes I love Style Council and sometimes I can't stand them. I guess it just depends on...

 
boxster 2009-02-15 04:06:50 PM  
Honeymoon Suite? Methinks one of these things is not like the others.

/Hot summer night....

 
Stay Cool Babylon 2009-02-15 04:15:14 PM  
Hoopy Frood: Stay Cool Babylon: As a speaker nut, I use "True" as a test level source. Everyone else uses "Dark Side of the Moon," but I had to be ironic, right?

/seriously, it's well engineered.
//forgot the hyphen, so my entire point is now invalid

Lolwut? Godley & Creme did more than their fair share of studio engineering over the years, IIRC.


That would explain it. I don't know anything about the Spandeau Ballet, but "True" has everything you could ask for when auditioning a set of speakers. I have a lossless copy on my player, and everyone laughs at/with me when I'm blasting "Ahhhh hah ha Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaah-aaaaah" throughout the store. it definitely raises eyebrows, but that's not why I do it. You're supposed to bring a song with sonic characteristics that you're familiar with you to the store! lulz

/I checked - I'm not gay

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-02-15 04:25:00 PM  
Stay Cool Babylon: Hoopy Frood: Stay Cool Babylon: As a speaker nut, I use "True" as a test level source. Everyone else uses "Dark Side of the Moon," but I had to be ironic, right?

/seriously, it's well engineered.
//forgot the hyphen, so my entire point is now invalid

Lolwut? Godley & Creme did more than their fair share of studio engineering over the years, IIRC.

That would explain it. I don't know anything about the Spandeau Ballet, but "True" has everything you could ask for when auditioning a set of speakers. I have a lossless copy on my player, and everyone laughs at/with me when I'm blasting "Ahhhh hah ha Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaah-aaaaah" throughout the store. it definitely raises eyebrows, but that's not why I do it. You're supposed to bring a song with sonic characteristics that you're familiar with you to the store! lulz

/I checked - I'm not gay


"True" is just great 80s smooth pop. Nothing gay about it.

OK, maybe the name "Spandau Ballet" is a little gay.

 
Hoopy Frood 2009-02-15 04:46:26 PM  
D'oh! Looks like I was trying a little too hard to make a Lol Creme joke and mixed up "Cry" and "True".

 
Polly Styrene 2009-02-15 06:29:24 PM  
After the Snow by Modern English was actually a pretty strong album. Mesh and Lace is rather good too.

 
whatshisname 2009-02-15 06:49:33 PM  
40below: FeedTheCollapse: crappy modern pop does not excuse crappy pop music from the past.

You don't know what the sound is dawning.
It's the sound of my tears falling -
Or is it the rain?


Thank you.
They don't know.

 
Gulper Eel [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 07:16:39 PM  
Midnight Rambler: Sometimes I love Style Council and sometimes I can't stand them. I guess it just depends on...

...your ever changing moods?

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-02-15 07:51:02 PM  
Gulper Eel: Midnight Rambler: Sometimes I love Style Council and sometimes I can't stand them. I guess it just depends on...

...your ever changing moods?


: )

 
CZMisfitsFan 2009-02-15 07:53:37 PM  
Kajagoogoo did reunite and have released a new album, albeit one that was only available online. It was actually pretty good. What?

/Love my 80s New Wave/Synthpop. Feel no shame in that.

 
Jedekai 2009-02-15 07:56:56 PM  
Opening for Spandau Ballet: DeBarge. Guest appearances by Bow Wow Wow.

 
mhd 2009-02-15 08:07:46 PM  
Midnight Rambler: OK, maybe the name "Spandau Ballet" is a little gay.

Erm, look up the meaning of that name. You might be surprised...

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 08:19:21 PM  
Spandau Ballet had a few good songs, sadly True was the only big hit.

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-02-15 08:21:04 PM  
mhd: Midnight Rambler: OK, maybe the name "Spandau Ballet" is a little gay.

Erm, look up the meaning of that name. You might be surprised...


Yeah, I knew the origin of the name, but come on... it still sounds gay.

 
Gulper Eel [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 08:27:17 PM  
Came here for the Level 42, Blancmange, Howard Jones, T'Pau, and the Blow Monkeys, dammit.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-02-15 09:09:46 PM  
Gulper Eel: Came here for the Level 42, Blancmange, Howard Jones, T'Pau, and the Blow Monkeys, dammit.

All good, Level 42 and Howard Jones especially.

 
calm like a bomb 2009-02-15 10:10:58 PM  
Modern English to record "brand new insipid and annoying ballad"? Nuh-uh. They'll just re-record and release "Melt with You".

 
Polly Styrene 2009-02-15 10:42:52 PM  
calm like a bomb: Modern English to record "brand new insipid and annoying ballad"? Nuh-uh. They'll just re-record and release "Melt with You".

AGAIN!!! They did that in the nineties, didn't they?

 
Walt_Jizzney 2009-02-15 11:37:00 PM  
WhyteRaven74: Gulper Eel: Came here for the Level 42, Blancmange, Howard Jones, T'Pau, and the Blow Monkeys, dammit.

All good, Level 42 and Howard Jones especially.


Only after my Adam Ant, Belouis Some, Japan, Talk Talk and early Erasure.

/Edie Brikell on the list? Seriously?

 
Spider Dijon 2009-02-15 11:37:06 PM  
Gulper Eel
Came here for the Level 42, Blancmange, Howard Jones, T'Pau, and the Blow Monkeys, dammit.

Level 42 + the thumb-slapping prowess of Mark King!

 
10000 Marbles 2009-02-16 01:33:35 AM  
Anyone who would include Godley and Creme here is obv. not familiar with their earlier work. I do, however, like the direction this thread has taken so you may all continue now...

/I pity inanimate objects
//Shhh! Howard Johnson is moving his bowels

 
GibbyTheMole 2009-02-16 08:25:56 AM  
I can't hear that song without thinking of Steve Buscemi's offkey crooning in "The Wedding Singer"

Subby: What? No Double?. Surely you remember Double.

 
Unhip1 [TotalFark] 2009-02-16 11:16:18 PM  
Sure....the Style Council is reforming right after that Paul Weller reunion tour with The Jam ends.

 
solo89 2009-02-17 08:12:43 PM  
Good. Now John Stewart can finally get the musical guest he's been waiting for!

/Obscure?

 
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