The Friday Canon: SPANDAU BALLET

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Duran Duran-on was too long to type out in a busy lunchtime - instead here's their bestest chums, Spandau Ballet! You get FIVE ticks out of this lot. Use them wisely!

[Poll #1036770]
Orbital/Orb (link)
1. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
2. Orbital - Chime
3. Orbital - The Box
=4. The Orb - Blue Room
=4. Orbital - Satan
6. Orbital - Radiccio EP
=7. Orbital - Satan (live)
=7. The Orb - Toxygene
9. The Orb - Perpetual Dawn
=10. Orbital - Are We Here
=10. The Orb - Assassin
=10. Orbital - The Saint

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I have only knowingly heard two of these songs.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I only know three. It seems mad that they were huge popstars with few memorable singles...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Were they that huge though? I was kinda surprised you thought them canon worthy. ALTHO' - BUT - HOWEVER I do remember a lot of these and their "any good at all" to meh ratio = actually quite high!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't want to do a big canon with half the comment crew at the Beer Fest. Perhaps I should have done Iron Maiden instead :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't know any!

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

That is frankly unbelievable. You must have heard True, and Gold very commonly played too.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I agree. I had their greatest hits in the late eighties and most of it was blinding. Highly pop too, in a way that among their peers only Duran Duran could claim.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

'Gold' goes like this: "Gold (Gold!) Always believe in your sooo-oul, you've got the power to know, you're indestructibuuuuule, always belieeeevaa-ayng."

'True' has been sampled by PM Dawn and EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_%28song%29).

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Up the Irons!!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh I HATE that 'Gold' song! Hate hate hate hate.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What exactly do you hate about it? I'm curious.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's like enforced jolliness, the kind of thing which makes me think of office outings and team building exercises, it sort of blares horribly and demands that you feel positive. It's all a bit much really.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I blame over-use at Olympic medal ceremonies.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh oh, I found John Darnielle's article about Spandau Ballet lyrics (http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2001-04-18/music/spandau-ballet/) (I think there may have been more than one actually) - it is cheery reading.

DO NOT WANT

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

My ex-boyfriend used to deliberately torment me with 'Gold.' I hate it for being the world's most annoying song ever and also because he used to take great glee in how furious it made me to have it in my presence, generally introducing it into contexts in which it was totally unsuitable.

I really, really hate it. So incredibly much. It presses the same instant, incoherent fury button in me as mentioning Nietzsche. Just thinking about it is making me really angry.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates it.