Advantages: 80's Pop Disadvantages: Strange Dress Sense
Back in the 80's when Spandau Ballet were at the height of their fame I was a Wham! Fan - George Michael rocked and so did his music - well come on!! I was only 14.
They shared the limelight with such bands as Duran Duran, Culture Club, UB40, Yazoo and China Crisis amongst others.
Spandau Ballet were not my cup of tea - their music was Ok and I must admit to owning a copy of their first LP (LP for you younger readers is a Long Playing Disc which ... ...but as for the band members they were awful - their music was listed as New Wave or New Romantic and they wore kilts and funny hair styles and sashes and make-up! - well they all wore make-up but theirs was so obvious! -and they pranced around the Top of The Pops stage like lunatics - they were not at all as good-looking or suave as George Michael in my opinion.
Funny how tastes change - I now look on George as a bit weird looking and definitely ...
Advantages: Top 80's Pop Disadvantages: Later songs are weak
Kajagoogoo - what springs to mind crap name, crap haircuts, iffy songs.
Well I'm forced to concede the 1st two points, but the music itself has stood the test of time well. Listening to this best of shows particularly with the 12 inch remixes of "big apple" and "too shy" that kaja were actually fine musicians influenced equally by New Romantics and the 80's Brit funk revival led by level 42.
The earlier songs are the best with 5 songs taken off ... ...aah" were the big hits, but "white feathers", "lies and promises" and "kajagoogoo" are also fine songs. After that only the next single " Big Apple" is classic 80's the rest of their carreer slipping downhill - pleasant but not outstanding.
A fine collection - but does anyone know what kajagoogoo means? ...
Advantages: mid price now Disadvantages: too many to mention
oh why, it could have all been so different, duran seem to have always found a way to shoot themselves in the foot, and this probably took both feet off, after the phenomenal success of the wedding album duran decided to release an album of cover versions! Perfect day was ok, and Lou reed says the best version of his song official! and white lines featuring melle mel was pretty good and even made top twenty, but mots of the other songs here just ...
Advantages: ordinary world duran at there best Disadvantages: absoloutely none at all
i cant believe no-one has reviewed this album! This is probably the best duran album of all time, it features ordinary world, too much information and come undone and a host of other great tracks such as breath after breath. For once everyone stopped hating duran and strated to love them, ordinary world won a novello award for song writing and duran were back in the public eye big time. never in there history have they achieved such a rare return ...
Advantages: cheap mid price Disadvantages: didn't do well chartwise, but who cares
this'll get you out of your head, shouted le bon at the start of violence of summer, I wouldnt go that far, but this was certainly a step in the right direction. A lot of people i know have never heard serious, which is a sad loss cos its one of durans best, and matches come undone, and there are some great tracks here Yasmins fave My antarctica is here and haunting, the title track is pretty good and hothead even featutes Le bons first attempt at ...
Excellent performance, tonnes of steam, ventilated ironing board (*)
