Shiny Toy Guns

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Noticed there wasn't a thread on Shiny Toy Guns.
(if I'm wrong, sorry - delete at will etc)

I think they're f-a-b.

Poptastic eighties revivalists, their MySpace is here

New video here.

― vinegar (Koens), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

And by 'new' I mean 'latest' (cos it's been out for a month or so). The album's from early this year.

The chorus of "Don't cry out", when the female singer comes in, makes me ecstatically happy.

― vinegar (Koens), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Wow, was this thread subtitled "Flush asap"? :-)
Anyone care to comment? Or will this be my year-end-list entry that evryone goes "wtf?" about?

― vinegar (Koens), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

This lot can fuck right off.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

right then. that's me ordering the cd now...

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

"We named it Airbourne A07 after our album and the entire crew will be
dressed in airline uniform with A07 berets, T-shirts and tank tops. We even drew
a logo! We've also got an air stewardess who will walk around with a tray of
freebies. And instead of getting a normal ticket, fans get printed boarding
passes."

This reminded me of the bloke in t'other night's London Free Sheet who said his career ambitions were 'four Grammys, two Brits'.

― Mippy (Mippy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like this album. They cover Taco's "Puttin' On The Ritz." Brilliant.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

This is the band whose singer is rumored to have ghost-sung for Paris Hilton, yes?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I like what I've heard.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I dig the first album a lot. It has a great New Order/Depeche Mode vibe to it, terrible lyrics and all. Maybe a bit whinier. "Turn to Real Life" is an awesome tune, could easily be among the best of New Order. The actual single "Le Disko" is so garbage though. I just threw up, from thinking about it.

The second album is a total dud though. They replaced the female singer and wrote a bunch of really trite mopey stuff, I guess it's the kind of stuff that would appeal to 13 year-olds but I am a man god damnit and this sucks.

There seems to be a group of girls who play them a lot on the bar jukeboxes, especially the cover of "Major Tom", which is not very good. After the fourth time I heard them play it I asked "can't you at least play the original?" to which they just looked at me, puzzled. They never heard of Peter Schilling. And they went home...alone

― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

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