boys from north London with kilts, shoulder pads, bad 1980s hair, eyeliner and unmistakable good looks--caused quite a stir and soon had both major record labels and teenage girls monitoring their every move. Major-league players among the New Romantic movement, the five piece lived the high life and churned out hit after hit between 1980 and 1986. This compilation features pretty much all of their offerings ("Gold", "True", "Lifeline", "Highly Strung")--some more memorable than others.Gold's sleeve notes boldly proclaim "...this is where it all began. Club culture, endless nocturnal adventures, white boys high on soul and funk-making electric dance music which moves the city." It's hard to imagine music like this doing that now--on the cover they look like a bunch of old guys in polo necks--but it was the 80s.--Ronita Dutta
boys from north London with kilts, shoulder pads, bad 1980s hair, eyeliner and unmistakable good looks--caused quite a stir and soon had both major record labels and teenage girls monitoring their every move. Major-league players among the New Romantic movement, the five piece lived the high life and churned out hit after hit between 1980 and 1986. This compilation features pretty much all of their offerings ("Gold", "True", "Lifeline", "Highly Strung")--some more memorable than others.Gold's sleeve notes boldly proclaim "...this is where it all began. Club culture, endless nocturnal adventures, white boys high on soul and funk-making electric dance music which moves the city." It's hard to imagine music like this doing that now--on the cover they look like a bunch of old guys in polo necks--but it was the 80s.--Ronita Dutta
Advantages: Brilliant, Fantastic Band, Disadvantages: Nothing At All.
...still hear it and love it.
At the end of the day, this group was awesome at there peak, and now with Tony Hadley, winnning the Rebourn in the USA, he will be coming back to prominense, if you want to go and hear one of the truly great voices, then i would say go and book to see him in one of his uk tour concerts, he is going to be near grimsby near me, and i am going to go and see him.
As for a comeback, Tony has said there will never be one, and i have to believe him, but if a good cause came up, you never know. one day we could hear gold like from the band again......... we can hope.
This cd is the Quality it is meant to be, it is SpandauBallet, it has the best tracks they have produced, and it is amazingly simple to listen to, and love, you can sit down and enjoy Through the Barricades, you can really relax to that song...
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...I did not want to admit to buying this album let alone liking it and telling people how much i've enjoyed it, but I have to say it is fantastic and I am so pleased that i spent money on it. All the old classis are on this album and it is just wonderful. I was not really old enough to really like SpandauBallet in the 80s but this really shows me what i had missed out on. You may think that it is not worth buying but give it a chance and go out and buy it, you will probably end up loving it as much as I do....
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Advantages: Some excellent songs Disadvantages: quite repetitive
...In my time I have been a 70s chick, a punk, a Mod, a New Romantic, a Glam Rocker, a Heavy Rocker.
In my New Romantic days I used to love SpandauBallet along with Duran Duran and Visage.
As I love to reminicise I thought I would buy the Gold album from SpandauBallet.
Tony Hadleys voice is so powerful and still could send shivers down my spine years later.
The tracks listed are.
1:Gold
2:true
3:Only when you leave
4:Lifeline
5:Communication
6:Instinction
7:Chant no 1(I don't need this pressure on )
8:To cut a long story short (First song I heard)
9:The freeze
10:Musclebound(Not one of their best)
11:Paint me down
12:She love like diamond
13:Round and Round
14:Highly Strung
15:Fight for ourselves
16:I'll fly for you
17:Through the Barricades.
Through the Barricades was sang by a young man on Stars in your eyes...
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