OK, slight transfer of interest: The DAILY MAIL EIGHTIES CD SET for pollage and debate.

Actually, I suspect one will be streets ahead, but then that's just me possibly..

So anyroad, I have two in the car, Dare and Prince Charming.

So, which CD did we bop to on the way to school drop-off zone? That's right, "Rock and Roll with the Modern Lovers"...

Everybody who doesn't vote Dexys is a cunt.

Tho the only one I bought on release day was Misplaced Childhood. I was wondering why the singles seemed to be getting a lot of commercial radio/shitty record shop airplay lately.

I'll wait till these start appearing in charity shops and pick them up there rather than buy the fecking Daily Mail.

I'm one of the cunts btw. Though Dexy's is great.

I don't make the rules, son.

I'm also a cunt, cos it's Dare for me.

Obviously there are other nice albums on that list but only one of them is SFtYSR.

Cuntdom seconded; for me it was a painful decision between Dare and Dexy's and for various personal life-related reasons I have to go for the former even though the latter was and is vital to me.

As for the rest:

Spandau - cabaret tosspotism and I suspect that even if Trevor Horn had produced the album as originally intended it wouldn't have made any difference and he was absolutely right to go and do Duck Rock instead (now there's an album that the Mail should be giving away free).

Culture Club - everyone loved this at the time but let's be honest, it has dated very badly.

Paul Young - this doesn't even get its special browser marker downstairs at MVE any more; again, that horrible gutless broth endemic of 1983 anti-pop (I note there's only one 1982 album in this list - no Lexicon, no Sulk, no New Gold Dream. The Fabulous Wealthy Pop Tarts or whatever they called themselves should have been culled. Is Did the Mail edition include special bonus 12" track "Sex"?

Adam - I still like this one and maybe I'm the only one left who does, but nicely experimental without necessarily ending up in a cul-de-sac. Don't know why they didn't go for Kings though.

The Minds abomination I've already said my piece about on the other thread.

Bonnie - to an extent the album is "Total Eclipse" plus supporting acts but the rest of it's not too bad.

Pelican West is still a beauty - Britfunk/soul-gone-pop-via-bubblegum-and-Postcarad as it might have developed had not Simply Red, Wet Wet Wet etc. gone on to extract all the fun and mischief, not to mention the pop, bubblegum and Postcard elements, from the template.

TTD - fuck, those awful Jonathan Ross-esque backing singers he had. Fucking real soul, passion and honesty Red Wedge Kronenberg 1664 sax busker on London Bridge Levi's "I'm Independent, are you?" bollocks. Second album was brilliant though.

Heaven 17 - not nearly as bad as everyone makes out but not quite Penthouse And Pavement either.

Marillion - strange one this, it's like Peter Hammill's Genesis except even Hammill you'd never catch dancing in stilettoes in the snow.

Fish did a Friday Rock Show all-nighter round about the time of MC's release which was the first time I was introduced to VdGG. Apart from "Theme One", obv, but I didn't realise that was them at the time.

What's "Theme one", is it a (um) theme from something?

VERY surprised you don't remember it; the original opening and closing theme for Radio 1, composed and recorded by George Martin in 1967. The VDGG cover was used for Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show-mmmmm.

It was used specifically to introduce the bit where a listener suggested 3 tracks with a connection and you had to write in and guess what it was.

The Friday Night Connectionnnnnnnmmmmm. This week sent in byyyy Guardian of the Universe, Sidcup.

I'd have to hear it before I went "Ohhhhh Yesssssss" I guess.

No Parlez has the cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart on, right? how anyone could vote against that sublime musical marriage is beyond me.

I am disturbed by just how vividly I can imagine the fretless bass and semi-wistful saxophone on that.

PINO PALLADINO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

"Theme One" on the friday rock show was probably the gateway drug into VdGG fandom for a bunch of people of a cretain generation, myself included.

I remember seeing PY covering "Love Will Tear us Apart" on "The Tube". So outraged was I at this TRAVESTY that I phoned my Joy Div loving friend AS IT WAS PLAYING to rant, he was like "huh, huh, huh, the backing singers have no bras, you can see their tits jiggling about, huh, huh, huh." Oh well.

"Dare" easily, anyway. Probably the TTD second, I still have that album and enjoy it whenever I spin it. If they'd picked "New Gold Dream" instead of the shitty simple minds album they did pick, well, it probably still would have been "Dare", but not by so big a margin.

Hey Pash, did you ever get to interview Phil Oakey? If so is it online anywhere?

No, I never did, sadly. The guy I was going to do it w/wound up doing it at a later date when I was away.

Oh, and it's Terence today.

"Dare" is the obvious winner here, although some of the others (Marillion, Spandau Ballet, Paul Young) are terribly underrated too.

Nick Heyward got a lot better later on. "Pelican West" is kind of interesting, but could have benefited from a bit of synths and drum machines (or Simmons).

Goodbye Geir.

Besides, they should have included some Thompson Twins or Howard Jones here (the Edsel re-release program may mean the former wasn't available for free giveaway though)

I actually bought the Mail to get Dare (shamefully, never owned this) and Pelican West (only have on cassette). Will probably buy it for Dexy's too (only have on damaged vinyl). The newspaper went straight in the bin natch.

Voted H100: a perfectly-sequenced LP. Nice and short too - leaves you wanting more, as all good albums should.

i really like the adam ant album. its bonkers, all over the place stylistically and perry farrell owes a big debt to 's.e.x.'

Kind of amazing how half of these albums were all released in the same year.

Oh, for cryin' out loud! Poll ends next year?

Maybe the reappraisal of Spandau and Paul Young will be in full force by then.

I always thought Paul Young's career was toast before No Parlez came out.

I'll do my own ba-doom-tish on the way out.

Maybe the reappraisal of Spandau and Paul Young will be in full force by then.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 26 September 2008 09:14 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yep, they be filming "100 - They were shite weren't they?" for C4 right now...

Oh, for cryin' out loud! Poll ends next year?

So?

That is still 103 years prior to my "2112" poll running out. :)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

dexys

Gotta be "Dare", although some of the others are also very underrated.

Oh, for cryin' out loud! Poll ends next year?

― Mark G, Friday, 26 September 2008 08:59 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Maybe the reappraisal of Spandau and Paul Young will be in full force by then.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 26 September 2008 09:14 (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yup. Still shite.

Anyway, you can presumably get all/most of these in yr local Charity shops...

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Clutching at Straws > Misplaced Childhood anyway.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i need to get that haircut 100 lp