Oh no, I have an irresistible urge to buy and hear Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Flaunt It" album!

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All I remember from back in the day was a band who tried to model themselves on manga cartoons, and sound like Suicide crossed with Gene Vincent (supposedly)...

Except the guys couldn't move really, on fear of toppling off their platforms. Excitement soon waned.

But there it is, in the Fopp warehouse sale. £3.

Not a big LP box with plastic frontage, just a dull ordinary CD.

So, strip away all the fashion and pose, what's left?

Lets see.. (looking over paris from a hilltop)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Great and unfairly maligned album and for £3 you should grab it, but keep searching for the original Scalextric-sixed box.

Sort of Suicide had they grown up in Bromley or Croydon with adverts (where they could sell the space) and lots of great 1986-style M25 echoes and bangs.

I listened to it on holiday in Italy in '86 and it made perfect sense.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Supposedly, Furniture (of Brilliant Mind fame) were going to buy a spot along the "If you want some real music" lines (to the sigger's general amusement and approval) but EMI (I guess) nixed it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Despite NME endlessly slagging them off, Flaunt It did appear at #43 in their EOY albums list, mainly because Quantick liked it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody should release a remasted version of it one of these days just to tack on Buy EMI (£4 Million Mix) which is only the best thing ever apart from Love Missile.

― South Adelaide Gangsta (patog27), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Love Missile looked all set to speed to number one but alas they stood no chance against the omnipotent galactic force that was Sir William Ocean.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

This the same Sir Will that got stopped in turn by the Spitting Image puppets?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've had the urge in question, have succumbed to it, and have found myself feeling a bit cheapend in the afterglow. Buy the "Love Missle F1-11" twelve-inch and call it a day.

The Suicide comparison is so off-base it's almost incomprehensible. Almost. I mean, they clearly liked Suicide and were hugely influenced by them, but they're such an entirly different KIND of band that I don't know where to begin...

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

i love Flaunt it. such a lot of tacky fun.
their Elvis Presley covers album however, is stretching things a little too far ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nowhere near as good as the Alec Empire Vs Elvis Presley album, that's for sure (now there's a thing: did Atari Teenage Riot pick up where Sigue Sigue left off?).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Their single off album two had the "StockAitkenWakercrisps" treatment..

Although I thought the chorus was "Hicks from the Sticks" as opposed to "Sex(?) from Success.."

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

first album I ever bought with my own money. first album that ever disappointed me.

I still have it. it's still shit.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Saw the Love Missle vid on The Vault the other day. Good times!

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Buy it Mark else you'll die wondering.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have it!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

YSI?

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Strangely I'd be curious to hear this as well, though at the time I wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole.

― Bimbler (Bimble...), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

BUY EMI what was that on?

― pisces, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

The b-side of "Love missile"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

sorry, but after a few glasses of plonk, this album, flaunt it, is f*ckin' amazing.
seriously.
even kylie is now on the SSS groove.
of course, they'll never get over their 'personal' differences and reform, but still, one 'classic' album + a few hidden gems here and there is a lot more than most pseudo-pop creations.
oh, and i've really come to love the elvis cover versions album.

― mark e, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5f2Ka0UT9Y

The story. Soon to come. (the trailer)

I was listening to the NME "Hi-Voltage" compilation tape, and Holgar Czukay's "hey bob a re bop" is basically inventing SSS, innit?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:45 (thirteen years ago)

Wasn't there a ROIR (or similar label) release of them early on when they were working out their sound cyber r'n'r or whatever it was? Think it was supposed to have a harder edge and be more satisfying than the mainstream lp.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 09:58 (thirteen years ago)

Was inspired by the 'gene Vincent meets suicide' upthread to check out 'flaunt it' on spotify. Currently on my 3rd straight run through. Is it bad that I'm enjoying this as much as pretty much any album I've come across in the last few months? It's just so much fun!

― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:27 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

the removal of adverts on the new reissue is weird and wrong.
they are an integral part of the album.

― mark e, Saturday, 10 October 2020 21:12 (five years ago)

How strange.

― Mark G, Saturday, 10 October 2020 21:16 (five years ago)

What's weird is that I was in a record shop an hour ago agonizing as to whether I should lay down $2.99 for an original cassette of this and now this thread is bumped after 8 years dormant.

― everything, Saturday, 10 October 2020 21:27 (five years ago)

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