Sigue Sigue Sputnik: What Were They on About?

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I mean, really.....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

the whole point was to get Magenta De Vine out of the house.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 3 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

They were the classic 'wow, modern life is so fast and crazy, isn't it all great' band. There was also a real hardness to them, like they were going to grab what they could and didn't care who knew it. Love Missile F-111 was the sound of Suicide selling out. Which is such a crazy concept that you've got to hand it to them for trying to make it work.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"about haircuts"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

At the time, my dream band would have looked like sigue sigue sputnik, and sounded like the jesus and mary chain. I have *no* idea what the fukc sss were on about. What is really sad about them is that for all the hype, they failed, their record fucking tanked.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What is really sad about them is that for all the hype, they failed, their record fucking tanked.

I believe they call that.......JUSTICE!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe that what killed them, as I remember, was that they got interviewed on "The Tube" by Muriel Gray, who is, or was pretty fucking hardass. She was really scornful about their whole look and stuff, and at one point said something like "the way you look, reminds me of gonks"
(gonk as in brit{?} toy from '70's and '80's)
http://www.freakyfrogs.net/collect/froggonk.jpg

To this day, I believe that the minute she uttered those words, sigue sigue sputnik were doomed. Their album didn't help either, that's for sure.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Never mind that they put actual COMMERCIALS on their album... you know, to make a cutting, social statement.

I think Boy George actually nailed Degville somewhere

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Bonus Sub-Question: WHO IS SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK'S CONTEMPORARY EQUIVALENT?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

shit! (haha) what I meant to say is..

I think Boy George actually nailed Degville somewhere in his autobiography. Apparently, Martin used to be a journalist and wrote some bad reviews of Culture Club somewhere... so having him just years later dress up like a punk poodle singing "Shoot it up. Shoot it up" is quite funny.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Who promises the earth, and delivers jack shit? Who is hyped to fukc on all the music mag covers, yet no-one buys the rekkid? That's a tough one. I'm not sure there is an equivalent right now...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

WHO IS SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK'S CONTEMPORARY EQUIVALENT?

The Briefs

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

*scraps one's 'alec empire, haha' joke*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

'wow, modern life is so fast and crazy, isn't it all great' type bands are better when they're obsolete & bargain-bin than when they're hot new & "relevant", aren't they (aren't they?). i only heard the whole sigue sigue sputnick album for the 1st time very recently, beth ducklingmonster had bought it in the sale bin & brung it round to our house 1 evening & i thought it was very good. quite poignant.
they had this silly ass thing they did where they sold advertising space on their album, outrageous wackiness!

― duane (24 hour troubleshooter), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

WHO IS SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK'S CONTEMPORARY EQUIVALENT?
A.R.E. Weapons

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 3 July 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i woulda said fischerspooenr

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 4 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(one good song and a fuckload of bluster)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 4 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Jim, spot on with Fischerspooner. And Duane is spot on too. Which means we will all love Fischerspooner in about 15 years - that would not surprise me.

Help, I'm starting to like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs! I'm backsliding people, help me out!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 4 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the 80's ?

at the end of that tube interview:

degville: knock knock
muriel: who's there?
degville: elvis
muriel: elvis who?
degville: you've forgotten already?

score draw i'd say

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember I was excited about the album after reading that it starts out with Degville screaming "I'M A STAR! I'M A STAR! I'M A STAR!" All albums should start out that way, I thought. But it wasn't quite as tantrum-tastic as I'd imagined. It sounded a little sad, like he was floating in outer space and nobody was listening to him. So, yeah, Duane's right, it' s poignant. I wasn't interested in poignancy back then.

I did go see them at the Palladium in NYC when that club was at its height. They looked so tiny on the stage and the sound was appalling. Hardly anybody was there to see them, they all just came to dance and be seen at the new Studio 54. Sad. Anyway, I love all those Blitz Kid bitches--Steve Strange, Martin Degville, Marilyn, Boy George. I don't care much what the music's like.

And, hey, guess what? They never went away! Poignant!

http://4dw.net/docsputnik/jojo08.html

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, let's see if this works...

http://www.kpik.dk/sputnik/thegarage/sputnik3.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i saws'em afores last christmas they were plenty fun

― bob snoom, Saturday, 5 July 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't the 'I WANNA BE A STAR!' sample from Bladerunner though?

― Wyndham Earl, Saturday, 5 July 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The Darkness?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

WHO IS SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK'S CONTEMPORARY EQUIVALENT?

Is there a way in which it could be....Lauryn Hill (based solely on her, um, work this decade)?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 23 August 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

Now, that's a stretch!

― Mark G, Monday, 24 August 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I've probably said this on ilx before here, but does Flaunt It have the first great CD booklet? It was still only 1986 but they ran with it. Lovely big dissonant clash of abstract text, flashy images, adverts (real and fake as per the album itself) and lurching negative space. Sort of a template for The Designer's Republic who were just starting to work with Age of Chance around the same time. A step forward (or back) from the not so crude ZTT/Morley way of doing this.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2392461-Sigue-Sigue-Sputnik-Flaunt-It

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 15 June 2024 23:34 (one year ago)

Wow that’s breathtaking, what an effort!

― brimstead, Sunday, 16 June 2024 04:48 (one year ago)

― StanM, Sunday, 16 June 2024 08:58 (one year ago)

also did the fascinating and iconographic artwork for Three Imaginary Boys https://www.discogs.com/master/20319-The-Cure-Three-Imaginary-Boys

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 16 June 2024 12:34 (one year ago)

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