China Crisis had one good song, the rest of their output is as limp as a wet haddock. The song in question is "Seven Sports for All", from the 1985 Virgin LP, the one with the strange title that nobody remembers.
China Crisis had one good song
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China Crisis had one good song
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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If you don't rate Wishful Thinking above that then there's no hope for you
It is alright but it has no defining characteristic at all
Take the vocal track off and it could be literally any one of a hundred 80s chart poppers.
It sounds remarkably like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from the intro
It is alright but it has no defining characteristic at all
Take the vocal track off and it could be literally any one of a hundred 80s chart poppers.
It sounds remarkably like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from the intro
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Re: China Crisis had one good song
I also assumed it was going to be "Wishful thinking".
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GoogaMooga wrote:China Crisis had one good song, the rest of their output is as limp as a wet haddock. The song in question is "Seven Sports for All", from the 1985 Virgin LP, the one with the strange title that nobody remembers.
That's awful.
'Wishful Thinking' is lovely.
I always had a soft spot for this - and it features one of my favourite guitar solos
https://youtu.be/5EYLrws2_s0?si=pmF2OMMhFnmhQlns
(fuck knows how to embed youtube on this site now)
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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You delete the first part of the URL up to and incl. the (=)
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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Doesn't work. At least not from an iPhone. You just get a blank screen in place of a video, with an error message
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Quality band and superb live, seen them about 5 times over last decade, ace. Plenty of great songs.
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Re: China Crisis had one good song
Wishful Thinking
Here Comes A Raincloud
Christian
African and White
all better than that slop.
Here Comes A Raincloud
Christian
African and White
all better than that slop.
So Long Kid, Take A Bow.
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and Black Man Ray
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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Re: China Crisis had one good song
Every single song listed so far is better than the one Googa posted 

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Re: China Crisis had one good song
I saw them round about the time African & White was first released. There were about 5 people there.
I do think that is the best thing they did.
I do think that is the best thing they did.