OK, I'm not really saying they're classic, except for "Tenderness." And in the glory year of 1984, all the rage was definitely only a minor pleasure. But it was a pleasure. So here, I give their own thread. Your Ranking Roger haircut jokes here.
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 2 April 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― bimble (bimble), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)
"tenderness" is great. i like wakeling's (sp?) lower register. though that "feel like a MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN-AN-AN" part is dumb.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 5 May 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)
listening to this tonight, having grabbed it on used vinyl a while back. the filler announces itself pretty loudly but this band's best moments are straight transcendent - <i>almost</i> up to the world-of-its-own level of <i>Special Beat Service</i>, which was controversial!!!1!one at my mod-heavy high school
TS "never you done that" vs. "tenderness": which is more wistful?
― J0hn D., Sunday, 9 March 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)
three or four years later & I still can't get used to the square brackets, dammit
― J0hn D., Sunday, 9 March 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)
the song "general public" itself is pretty great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkH45CmcdE&feature=related
― women are a bunch of dudes (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 6 May 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)
target commercials making me want to listen to 'tenderness' nonstop
― iatee, Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)
Been listening to this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoHQ2DC3zo
― c21m50nh3x460n, Monday, 8 April 2013 00:21 (twelve years ago)
A meditation on Stephen Baldwin, butts, and the Staples Singers
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:57 (seven years ago)
Not only a crap cover, but one of those that nearly ruined the original for me by being the version I heard first—and, as the piece accurately reflects, far too often during the early half of 1994.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 July 2018 05:15 (seven years ago)
I completely forgot their version existed. So weird that there was a General Public hit in the 90s. (And yeah it's an awful cover.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:39 (seven years ago)
Mmmmaybe related to success of '90s UB40?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:09 (seven years ago)
weird, I have zero memory of this!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:14 (seven years ago)
Yeah, I don't remember it at all!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:25 (seven years ago)
Whistling in the graveyard
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 04:08 (four years ago)
For a few seconds I was thinking: wait is this “Hitsville U.K.”?
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 August 2021 04:09 (four years ago)