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"Quick Step & Sidekick" is IMO a superior album, but I believe more people are familar with this one, making it better fit for a poll.

Picked "Hold Me Now", but there are lots of strong tracks herein too. "Doctor Doctor", "No Peace For The Wicked", "The Gap", "Storm On The Sea", "Who Can Stop The Rain" - all brilliant!

Never understood why "You Take Me Up" became their biggest UK hit though. I see it as one of their weakest.

Load of twatting rubbish

yes.

I even ha(ve)d the QS&SK Cassette with the remixes, and thought hey these guys are pretty good, maybe the next album will be better!

Then I got to hear the singles.

An album so wretchedly bad even MVE have barred it from their premises (see also No Parlez, Be Here Now...)

Such inspiring and imaginative song titles too

Oh it's better than virtually everything that is in the singles lists these days.

The least likely 'deluxe edition' ever. Straight to skip?

xpost do that one about Jay-Z singing again!

The least likely 'deluxe edition' ever

http://kulpop.blogspot.com/2008/01/finally-thompson-twins-classic-albums.html

The least likelyable 'deluxe edition' ever

Rejected tracks included:

Turned Out Nice Again Innit
At The End Of The Day
Over The Moon
Sick As A Parrot
Game Of Two Halves
Brian
Show Thatcher How Much You Hate Her - Vote Tory
You Can't Get The Staff These Days
So-Called Asylum Seekers
Monstrously Large International Turnover, Bigger Than Some Companies Quoted On The Stock Exchange
In Your Dreams, Tom
Nurse! Nurse!
You Bring Me Down
Night After Night
No War For The Good
The Gap Open Bank Holiday Monday
Chew My Grape

Taking my time
Boats that sink
Looking at me
Walking
Throw This Shoe
Waving my arms
Look at the Cook Book

Actually, our Alice came up with "There's nothing wrong with this oven" but I fear it's too interesting for the TT's.

Oh no, I can just picture Tom Wet Sunday Morning Face Bailey whining that:

"There's nothing wrong with this o-VEN
that can't be fixed by some miracle lov-IN'..."

There ought to be a thread on Dog Ends of Fake New Pop as Public Information Officers: "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream," "War, War Is Stoo-PEED," etc...

"Highly Strung," Spandau Ballet's timely warning about the dangers of mental instability, inspired by watching too many episodes of Rentaghost.

"The Riddle," written by Nik Kershaw when his video recorder recorded Jackanory by mistake instead of Countdown.

Actually, I like "Highly Strung" for one reason only.

We used to live in Windsor, and used the local laundromat (or, my mother did). One time, the wife of the notorious slum landlord Rachman was in there, and got chatting to her about how bad times were now Mr R was in all the trouble he was in. And just at the point where my mum was feeling sympathetic, she got all her dry wasing out of the drier, wondered outside, put it all in the boot of the Rolls parked outside and jumped in the back while the chauffer drove away.

So there you go.

xpost I quite like The Riddle, just for his brass neck! no long story for that one though.

Actually, there really should be a thread along those lines.

Lets hit it!

Most of this album is pretty great; it was one of my favorites when I was 9.

That means they were as The Feeling.

These mid 80s synthpop/new romantic records were brilliant too. Thompson Twins, Howard Jones, Paul Young, Nik Kershaw. All of them absolutely ACE! It is just that The Smiths had convinced the UK music press that the new pop wasn't "cool" anymore. But they were wrong.

Thompson Twins and Nik Kershaw >>>>>>>>>>>>> The Smiths.

And 1983 was an even better year for chartpop than 1981.

They vanished because they wouldn't start rapping. Singing was on its way out.

In fact they did. Which is when they definitely vanished.

Nooh, they started singing. For real, "Walking in the rain". That's when they disappeared.

Jay Z could do that one.

Well, obviously they vanished because "Close To The Bone" was not exactly a great record to the same extent. They were never quite themselves again after parting with Alex Sadkin, and before they realised the mistake, Sadkin was dead anyway.

Before?

What, he died producing their album, and they didn't notice?

(I'm sorry, I have had wayyyyyy too little sleep)

What, he died producing their album, and they didn't notice?

Oh, it was working with Robbie Nevil and Simply Red that seemingly cost him his life....

this band was physically repulsive

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I agree with Geir regarding 1983 v 1981, but in my teens I was sure that 1983 was the finest year of chart pop music ever.

Me Helpful: I see that "Here's to Future Days" is also being advertised (Record Collector) as a deluxe edition...

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