Day 3: Spandau Ballet: To Cut A Long Story Short: KILLER TRACK
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Day 3
OMG - THS IS NOW MY FAV TRACK........ I forgot OR Just didn't' realize......
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Magic. This is the best SB track in my opinion. They were so good at this point, they kind of lost me later on, 'Gold' and 'True' and such, not bad songs, just not my thing. You can not ignore Tony Hadley's vocals though, no matter what he's singing. Another cracking video guys, thank you.
I agree, I loved them in this era. They lost me when they went onto the MOR stuff.
The bass part at the middle of the song, along with the sound of the drums, is just fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Loved this , I was 15 and this blew our minds , charity shops sold out of army jackets and Norwegian knit . What a time my local social club had the stranglers, joy division, and a few others , it was just a little venue run by the committee from the council estate . Twice weekly junior disco , and everyone was dressed like New Romantics or punks of mods even teddy boys. Fantastic times .
I REMEMBER THE TEDDY BOYS......
Don’t forget the northern version of the Blitz. The Rumrunner in Birmingham was equally as important for bands like Duran Duran.
Ohhh!! Good call.
Been waiting all day for this ,wasnt dissapointed this is my favorite spandau ballet song
Thanks deb - Whats tomorrow?
Same favourite song of theirs other than Gold
You can't think of the 80s without Spandau Ballet, an absolute power band of that decade.
Loved it! 💕
Thanks
Another awesome track, love how you are embracing this theme! Agree about the 12" version, in fact their album with 12" songs is great. The Freeze 12" is my Spandau Ballet favourite, it's fantastic! Then they moved on to a more "regular" pop sound and their biggest hits, but I really like their early stuff.
A band that is rarely talked about is Classix Nouveaux, definitely New Romantic, lead by the charismatic Sal Solo. "Is it a dream" is a good starting point!
Great comments and thoughts thank you for sharing. Always love a good 12 inch
They were great live.
Always loved this track - thanks for bringing it back up -
Tony Hadley had an amazing voice as a 20 year old and it's even better now ❤️
His voice is unique and I only really appreciate that now
Ahhhh....memories pressed between the lace cuffs of my shirt!!
Love this song...Danced my heart out back in the day!! Thankyou fine gents!!! Take care!
You dandy!
80s music was Melodic those Synth riffs captured you it was repeat repeat another song i loved was the CARS HEARTBEAT CITY.
I find Spandau Ballet have two personas, the dance band and the artist band. To Cut A Long Story Short and Chant No.1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On) are great examples of their Dance persona, whilst True and Gold and Only When You Leave are them being much more in their Artist persona, but both facets of them always show huge talent for hits and interesting ideas.
Love it. Great choice.
Thanks Sean.... be well
Classic thank you 🙏
Thanks for listening
Both,the spandaus and the duranes,they were(are in DD case…) great musicians…Miss this level in pop Music nowadays
Good song, very talented band and Tony Hadley can bloody sing. They were massive chart-wise with a ton of Top 10 albums and singles. Alex, I have a Gary Glitter story. Rather embarrassing but I went to see him and the Glitter Band in N.Z. with my girlfriend (now wife of 45 years), and just outside the concert hall I got the shit kicked out of me by 3 thugs and I spent the whole concert bleeding all over my girlfriend from a blood nose that would not stop. Good times😊 Loving the week of music guys, and looking forward to Bowie and Oz weeks.
OMG...... Trev.... That's an epic movie! Start to finish.
Hell YEAH! They were just so Good!
This is peak 80s new romantic , wish theres some more spotlight on this
Certain bands and song's belong in the 80,s and then should have been forgotten this is one of them.😆
HA HA :)
I was never a great fan of the new romantics, but Gary Numan was, and still is, a brilliant performer.
Not such a great pilot!
I lived through this time period as well and If it wasn't for a friend, who's favorite band was Spandau Ballet, I would have never listened to them.
I never did until now!! I loved it
At the time of this message, I'm 48 here in Southern California. You referenced Depeche Mode and their popularity here in the L.A. area as well as KROQ. The three most important DJ's that KROQ had back in the 80's were Richard Blade (originally from Bristol, England), Jed the Fish and Rodney Bingenheimer who hosted Rodney on the Rock. Given that so much of the synth talent was coming from the UK, Richard Blade was instrumental in bringing them to Southern California via KROQ. Rodney would scout the local clubs here in L.A. for talent. So many bands got radio exposure because of him when they most needed it. Jed is credited as the first DJ in the U.S. to bring Depeche Mode to the airwaves. DM's popularity in Los Angeles can't be under stated. We even used to have an annual Depeche Mode convention hosted by KROQ.
KROQ has since lost its influence as many radio stations have with online streaming apps and downloadable music, but it was definitely a great run for them from the late 70's to the mid-90's. That's when bands like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit became popular. Barf.
Not the only thing Rodney was scouting for according to recent reports. The downfall of that era’s DJ’s.
George here. When I arrived in LA (1998) KROQ we’re still a force to reckon with. As you said not the case now and it is destined to repeat play offspring and blink 182!
@@TheThamesmen Yeah, KROQ was still doing OK at that time, but not nearly as well as it was during the New Wave to grunge era. The alternative music listeners used to be more united under the same banner of music led by bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Weezer, NIN, etc. It was almost like the music was doing the work for them. Then around 96, that demographic started splitting between the emo bands and the hard rock/metal bands like the ones I mentioned in my first comment. Korn, Slipknot and others come to mind.
Also, Los Angeles was being pulled more towards Hip Hop and Hip Pop through stations like Power 106 and thanks to Dr. Dre and Snoop, essentially defining the Southern Cali hip hop sound. Puff Daddy was also blowing up around that time. There was also a huge House Music scene around that same time in Los Angeles. If you were in your party years during that time like I was lucky enough to be, there was a smorgasbord of active party scenes to choose from. It was a great time for music.
But...still loved punk, post-punk and new wave even though I was just a kid at the time.
@@MrCucamonga1 thanks for sharing the time so well. Sounds a good time to be around
I watched your Planet Earth reaction first, and, despite being a major Duranie in the 80s, I agree with George that the Spandau song sounds edgier. It's stood the test of time a bit better. Duran's video clip was better though 😛
Duran Duran. Made some great videos at the time!
I whole heartedly AGREE withTania SPANDAU'S best by a country mile. It was a highly competitive music business at the time & it had to be a BANGER & they delivered.
I will never forget the 80S.
Great stuff
so 80's, and so undervalued or underestimated... everyone here in Europe could thing "True" at this time, but only a happy few were exchanging audiocassette under the cloak
They all looked and sounded the same to me. Probably why it's Duran Duran on the thumbnail.
It's a clue :)
@@TheThamesmen Wild boys !!
I was born in 1959, this was my music in my first cars! 😎
Then happy memories!
Oh guys you missed one of the best things about the 80s … New Romantics!! Back then you were either Team Spandau or Team Duran - and I was Team Spandau, they were fabulous back then - one of my faves in my teens. And Martin Kemp (my crush) looking so cool on bass. Tony Hadley has such a beautiful distinctive voice and he still sounds incredible live.🔥❤️
Was planning to add this track to one of my curated lists for you but you’ve already done it!! But so glad you did 😄
Liz.... Looking forward to your list... What about New Wave?
Maybe a 2nd week is warranted?
What is in week two? Thenewthamesmen@gmail.com
In the thumbnail it's a pic of Duran Duran not spandau
That's another can of worms you don't want to open! 😖
OMG...... I was doing all the thumbnails at once and probably didn't switch.... Deb's ssshhhhhh you're the only one to notice. I give you 1 Thamesmen Gold point for this. redeemable at any good grocery stores
HA HA :)
Is this a clue?
@@TheThamesmen i hope its a clue lol cos im a duran girl
Don’t miss Culture Club there music was so catchy
Thanks Glenda.... I could never put rags in my hair like George did!
Interesting. Have to give them credit what they did they did very well. Unfortunately it’s not my cup of tea.
They were a astounding trailblazing band and for sure not for everyone
Mmmm . . . good song, but they hadn't become a giant international pop music sensation yet. Probably 3 years or so later the song "True" did that.
For sure that track, True, was huge
I was more into Pink Floyd and Status Quo. However, I thought this song was great.
Thanks for the note. More soon and hope you have a fab weekend. Cheers G&A
Actually also listen to ua-cam.com/video/9NSOSO3Fv3k/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Emirmohssssseni
I was also a big rock kid, huge Floyd, Santana, woodstock era but I had an ear on this as I play keys - This is great shit, put this on in a car and I can guarantee someone will ask "who is this"
track a bit to convoluted for my liking, could have told the whole story within 90 seconds max.
Yes but then that would be a very short dance track!
The whole point of the New Romantics was to be as long-winded and pretentious as possible. God bless 'em!
@@FionaEm ooh harsh!
@@TheThamesmen But true 😅
You know, you could have done 2 songs in every video, if you didn't tell us the same stuff in every single one.
You weren't into it, what you did, what blah-blah-blah... It's not that you tell us anything new, we all read the books.
And how can you do NeoRomantics without Classix Nouveaux ?!?!?!? Their "Guilty" was a NeoRomantic anthem!
Fair point. We only had a week. We are old friends and we like to catch up. We do this to experience new music together and have a positive community who share the ride and information
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Strap on Norfolk!