Gold (The Best Of Spandau Ballet) - Spandau Ballet > Reviews > Eastender Steves Band

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Average
Lyrics	Standard
Quality and consistency of tracks	Mixed
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Good
Value for Money

Advantages:	Some excellent songs
Disadvantages:	quite repetitive

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

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 Spandau Ballet along with Duran Duran and Visage.
As I love to reminicise I thought I would buy the Gold album from Spandau Ballet.
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 last year and I thought he was wonderful.
That song is beautiful, very haunting.

I didn't realise the band had made so many songs until I listened to the album and thought "OH yes I remember that one".

The album is very good but after listening to about half the songs on the album I got a bit fed up>
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I think it's better to play a few at a time as they all start to sound the same.