fad gadget's "lady shave" is one helluva great song, innit?

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it's a little bit numan (with that airtight funky beat), it's a little bit depeche mode (complete w/ the sleazy sexual/sociopolitical metaphors), it's got a beat and sweet little keyboard trills that SHOULD have been sampled at this point (but to the best of my knowledge) or at least featured on a film soundtrack. and it isn't even fad gadget's best song (THAT honor would belong to "rickey's hand"). and i have been obsessed with this song for the past few days.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago)

should be, "but to the best of my knowledge HAVE NOT BEEN."

thank you.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

Totally OTM.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

"Fireside Favourite" is pretty great too . . .

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's great. Also, yer right w/r/2 "Ricky's Hand", one of the best electronic 7"s ever.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is it as good as Gus Gus's "Ladyshave"?

― Dan (I Guess I Must Have Messed It Up) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Both excellent in their own ways, my dear Dan. And Drew is right about "Fireside Favourite," which you would also greatly appreciate. It's the only romantic love song addressed to a just-being-turned-into-melting-slag nuclear bomb victim I know of.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I love "Back To Nature" and "Insecticide" (b-side of "Fireside Favourite") too.

― Pangolino 2, Friday, 2 June 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Still great.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 September 2013 04:09 (eleven years ago)

agreed.

― softspool, Saturday, 28 September 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago)

Yes, still love this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7AtcWICBG0

― phuturephase, Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago)

this dude rules, always wondered why he isn't better known

― swmp thing (wins), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/2db2cd54cc103acf2dbad8f1fbd50802/tumblr_mn34ik5ZYT1qggtb7o1_500.png

does anyone know what it says on his t-shirt here?

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago)

Also, there doesn't seem to be a single bad photograph of Fad Gadget on the internet

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago)

"pedestrian"?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 September 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago)

Ah, that would make sense. I was thinking 'penis crime' for some reason

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 28 September 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Still great.
― Ned Raggett

Ned OTM

― StanM, Friday, 23 October 2015 18:55 (nine years ago)

He was absolutely superb supporting Depeche Mode on the Exciter tour... he was so animated and full of life that his death not long afterwards came as a hell of a shock.

― Turrican, Friday, 23 October 2015 19:42 (nine years ago)

Of course, 'Lady Shave' is a killer song... but But BUT...

'State Of The Nation', 'Pedestrian', 'Newsreel', 'Insecticide', 'Ricky's Hand', 'Pedestrian', 'Love Parasite', 'The Box', 'Arch of the fucking Aorta', 'Back To Nature', 'King of the Flies'... I could go on!

― Turrican, Friday, 23 October 2015 19:45 (nine years ago)

For Who ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh the Bells Toll

― StanM, Friday, 23 October 2015 20:02 (nine years ago)

The way that 'Pedestrian' flows into 'State Of The Nation' on Fireside Favourites is just fucking ace.

― Turrican, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:07 (nine years ago)

"State of the nation" is so dope!!

― brimstead, Friday, 23 October 2015 22:59 (nine years ago)

His solo albums are all interesting and worthwhile.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 23 October 2015 23:44 (nine years ago)

I think the early Fad Gadget stuff sums up the "spirit" (for want of a better term) of Mute Records in the early '80s far more accurately than Depeche Mode did. Depeche Mode were obviously far more visible, but they were probably the straightest and most accessible thing on Mute Records at that point. Tovey's work is not without its hooks, but it also has a dark heart and an experimental spirit to it which Depeche Mode didn't really have at that time. I see the early Fad Gadget work as being like a halfway house between Depeche Mode's straight up, accessible early '80s synthpop, and some of the more challenging, obscure and thoroughly uncommercial acts on the early Mute Records roster.

― Turrican, Saturday, 24 October 2015 21:59 (nine years ago)

I mean, fucking hell, acts like NON and Smegma were hardly geared for chart action, were they?

― Turrican, Saturday, 24 October 2015 22:02 (nine years ago)

I just found Snakes & Ladders on LP for 99p in a charity shop!

Back to Nature is one of the all-time greatest synth-pop songs of all time.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 24 October 2015 23:08 (nine years ago)

Awww yeah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfEiqjhFMP8

― Turrican, Saturday, 24 October 2015 23:33 (nine years ago)

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