Best of these 80s pop classics

winner to have an 80% margin, I reckons.

Gold too susceptible to 'ironic' karaoke renditions. DYWM overplayed. ABC it is.

Voted Human League. Not that it affected my choice at all but the other two songs weren't even the biggest songs on their respective albums.

ABC. Have to say I'd take 'The Look of Love' over 'Poison Arrow' and 'Love Action' over 'DYWM'. I've never really liked Spandau Ballet apart from one or two songs.

THESE ARE THE CHOICES

Don't You Want Me. This isn't even close.

YOU'RE IN-DESTRUCT-IIIBLLLLE

Poison Arrow for me but they're all great. It's my favourite of the singles from Lexicon but Date Stamp has always been my favourite song on there.

Didn't know until recently that Phill Oakey hated Don't You Want Me and didn't want it to be a single.

oakey otfm

spandau pour moi every time

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'Don't You Want Me', easily.

I've never been a fan of Spandau Ballet, and I admire The Lexicon Of Love as a production 'triumph' (for want of a better term), but it's far from the first album I'd put on if I'm going to listen to something from this era.

Interestingly, Gary Kemp was on the Sky Arts show 'Songbook' a few years back, and he revealed that 'Gold' was his attempt at trying to write something that could be the theme for a James Bond movie.

Just realised I hadn't voted. Went for Poison Arrow.

Gold always reminds me of that Comic Strip 'Three Men In A Car' where the in-car cd starts skipping on 'you're indestructible/you're indestructible/you're indestructible' and they have to smash the stereo to pieces to make it stop.

"poison arrow" 4 life (and i have done it at karaoke)

Gold always reminds me of that Comic Strip 'Three Men In A Car' where the in-car cd starts skipping on 'you're indestructible/you're indestructible/you're indestructible' and they have to smash the stereo to pieces to make it stop.

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Fortunately the stereo WAS destructible, then? :D

I have sung "Gold" at karaoke unironically thank you.

"True" was a way bigger hit this side of the pond, but couldn't be easily mistaken for any of the others. Voted for Humang League, obv.

I love "Gold"!

Only When You Leave >>>> Gold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> True

I love "Gold"!

you're indestructible!

ALWAYS BELIEVE I-IT

I like the vid, too, keep waiting for the moment they unearth Pazuzu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

I wonder if Tony Hadley will fellate Bryan Ferry when the the old man finally croaks.

Poison Arrow narrowly edging Gold with Don't You Want Me a distant 3rd, though it looks like it'll walk this poll. As a song it's not even in the same class as the other two

Don't You Want Me > Poison Arrow > Gold, but I ended up splitting my vote and giving half a point each to "Souvenir" and "Promised You A Miracle" - I am confident one of those will win

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Bit of a leap from 'Gold' to 'Poison Arrow', there! :D

Wow! Not what I expected... Was True really bigger in the States than Gold?

yes

yes

I heard it being played as muzak today

"Gold" and "Only When You Leave" are the two other US top forty hits.

p. sure 'true' is the only spandau ballet i've ever heard

me too, until this poll

I first heard 'True' through the sample on 'Set Adrift On Memory Bliss'. 'Gold' is basically THE eighties power anthem in my mind. Much more emblematic than either of the other two.