free spandau ballet cd .

More great reasons not to buy the filthy rag then!

The full list is:

Spandau Ballet - True
Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Paul Young - No Parlez
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Heaven 17 - the Luxury Gap
Human League - Dare
Terence Trent Darby - Introducing The Hardline According To ...
Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night
Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

Possibly some of my all time most loathed music, from a decade I can't stand in the first place.

Jeez, that is - Human League (and maybe Culture Club) excepted - one hellish list.

The '80s stank!

PS In 2004 Oxfam (I think) did a survey of which were the albums 1) most often donated to charity shops; and 2) which were the most difficult to sell. Unsurprisingly 1) and 2) coincided. The two albums charity shops had the most of and which they found hardest to get rid of were Paul Young's "No Parlez", followed by Baldy Collins' "No Jacket Required"... two '80s "classics" gathering dust in charity shops for 20 years!

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Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

That's a great album IMHO (sonically too!).

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Originally posted by JamieL:
The full list is:

Spandau Ballet - True
Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Paul Young - No Parlez
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Heaven 17 - the Luxury Gap
Human League - Dare
Terence Trent Darby - Introducing The Hardline According To ...
Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night
Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

Possibly some of my all time most loathed music, from a decade I can't stand in the first place.

Human League, Bonnie Tyler and Dexys apart - I think I'd rather attend an Audience With Sting than listen to that lot - no I was only joking, please don't hold me to that .... in fairness to the DM they got the worst CD out first and there's no Baldy C.

ATB Rotf

Vincent Crane (Atomic Rooster) joined Dexys just before committed suicide - very sad really as he was one of my heroes even if he once said people like me just clapped with the rest and couldn't possibly understand his music: he was probably right.

couple of cd may be worth a listen are terence trent darby and heaven 17 .

Sounds like local radio

I didn't get my free CD in the mail. Didn't come today either, just the usual hearing aid & health pills junk mail.

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Originally posted by Kevin-W:


The '80s stank!

The 80's were great Electro, House & Techno were born and that is a good thing in my book if you look further than the mainstream you'll see tons of great music Siouxsie & The Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Depeche Mode, The Fall the list goes on. Though I would take Stock Aikman & waterman put them in a field and........



Dean..

I have finally read this!

I thought it was about some CD issue to get Spandau Ballet out of prison or something.

Sorry about that, but it kept creeping into my head!

ATB from George

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:
...if you look further than the mainstream you'll see tons of great music Siouxsie & The Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Depeche Mode, The Fall the list goes on.

They are the mainstream! Shopping muzak

Gees where do you shop?

Can't remember getting into a lift or walking down the aisle in the supermarket and hearing anything like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RWb-8Izv0&feature=related

(when I looked this up they had 666 comments - ooooooh scarey )

PS Hmm, I still have this on vinyl somewhere - maybe I should buy a cheap phono stage just to hear this again.

I think Ewan has forgotten (or perhaps is too young) to remember Siouxsie & The Banshees were one of the original Punk bands.

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:

The 80's were great Electro, House & Techno were born and that is a good thing in my book if you look further than the mainstream you'll see tons of great music Siouxsie & The Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, New Order, The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Depeche Mode, The Fall the list goes on. Though I would take Stock Aikman & waterman put them in a field and........

Dean..

Hi Dean

Most of the bands you mentioned are great - but, apart from them and the likes of Loop, Butthole Surfers, Associates, Blue Nile, Durutti Column (and most of the Factory crew), 23 Skidoo and a few others, the rest of it was shite. Particularly the mainstream...

Let me throw a few names at you:

Hue & Cry. Deacon Blue. Wet Wet Wet. Johnny Hates Jazz. Pogues. Simply Red. UB40. Spandau Ballet. Phil Collins. Genesis. Paul Young.

The horror. The horror...

Apart from the Pogues, I agree with your list & could add to it Kevin.
However there's more contrived musical shite around today then ever before!

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Hue & Cry. Deacon Blue. Wet Wet Wet. Johnny Hates Jazz. Pogues. Simply Red. UB40. Spandau Ballet. <he whose name should not be spoken>. Genesis. Paul Young.

How did the Pogues get in that rouges gallery

BTW you forgot ABC in your list.

I guess somebody has to like Echo & The Bunnymen and New Order - just that somebody is not me.

However even the 80s had its moments



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Originally posted by ROTF:


How did the Pogues get in that rouges gallery

Where would you like me to start?

Abysmal student music, a kind of musical version of Father Ted?

Led by a cartoon drunk ex-public schoolboy who fancies himself as a new Brendan Behan?

Like being stuck in a lift with two dossers and a bunch of whacky students on Rag Week?

Given that Irish folk is officially the world's most annoying music, it follows that said folk music appropriated by a half-arsed bunch of twats = possibly the worst group ever to exist, apart from the "Spands".

I could go on, but really life's too short.

But the Pogues are rubbish. Really, really, truly, titanically, crap and horrible. Sorry!

Hi Kevin

Well put - I think you have summarised why I like Irish folk music so much - listen to Altan, Christy Moore, Planxty, Lunasa, Solas, Grada and enjoy some of the greatest music you'll ever hear - rock music has been with us forty years, classical music for hundred years and folk music forever and ever more shall be so.

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musical version of Father Ted?

Wow - that's gone on my Amazon wish list - what a great idea


I agree with you on Hue & Cry (?), Deacon Blue (can't recall), Wet Wet Wet (Yuk), Johnny Hates Jazz (I think, but I can't recall anything they did), Simply Red (now they were abysmal), Spandau Ballet (even worse if possible), Baldy Collins (worst of all by miles) and Genesis (after PG left) and Paul Young (whoever he was).

ATB Rotf