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MORE 1985: x 3
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Strawberry Switchblade. Probably the first time I've listened to that one since it came out. Musically it's much more synthetic than I remember but there's something charming about it.
Of course we'll have the usual duffle-coat cunts along shortly, calling 'Tin Tin' 'perfect pop'....
Of course we'll have the usual duffle-coat cunts along shortly, calling 'Tin Tin' 'perfect pop'....
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Certainly Strawberry Switchblade get the vote, for an effervescent take on doleful synthpop. Perhaps a sell-out, but if great pop emerges, we all win...
Kiss Me isn't a good song, but Duffy had better songs in his arsenal, like Icing On The Cake, which still sounds good today.
Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!
Kiss Me isn't a good song, but Duffy had better songs in his arsenal, like Icing On The Cake, which still sounds good today.
Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!
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The Boys of Summer for me please.
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the masked man wrote:
Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!
You're not Scottish, then?
...seriously, that promo was played on Max Headroom, the Tube and that 8 hour BBC History of the Rock Video (2 x Johns: Peel / Walters) doc. I've been to most of the places in the clip
(was it even a hit? I dunno.)
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the masked man wrote:Certainly Strawberry Switchblade get the vote, for an effervescent take on doleful synthpop. Perhaps a sell-out, but if great pop emerges, we all win...
Kiss Me isn't a good song, but Duffy had better songs in his arsenal, like Icing On The Cake, which still sounds good today.
Jesse Rae...I'd forgotten about him, but how fucking embarrassing is this now. Just dreadful crap. Get over yourself!
More or less agree with this, although I'm less keen on Strawberry Switchblade which always sounded too soppy to me, although I can see it's well done.
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cobblers me iPhones been hacked again somehow
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I fucking love that Strawberry Switchblade song, I always did, even before I'd heard of Rose McDowall, Current 93, any of that connection which makes it hipper in my eyes. The combination of lightweight plasticity, with a kind of vaguely miserable thoughtful lyric and delivery kills me.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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I use to have the 12" of the Strawberry Switchblade one, but it's Tin Tin for me.
The 12" had a cover of Sunday Morning on the B side.
The 12" had a cover of Sunday Morning on the B side.
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Jesus! I have always hated that fucking dreadful Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy effort.
Everything about it is shit, from the half-arsed lyrics to the limp-wristed tune.
What the fuck were they thinking?
Everything about it is shit, from the half-arsed lyrics to the limp-wristed tune.
What the fuck were they thinking?
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All utter shit
Heyyyy!
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Switchers.
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Dearie me, Wolfie - that's a pisspoor selection. Strawberries at a halfhearted 6/10 wins.