evd@mgweed.UUCP (Gene Dunn) (11/26/83)
Isn't Spandau Ballet (sp ?) music the most diabolically disgusting,worthless trash you've ever heard? I'd allmost rather listen to traffic reports than that crap. Thanks! I feel much better now.
gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (11/28/83)
No, it's actually quite mellow. Pleasing to the ears, somewhat romantical.
ewf@ihuxr.UUCP (Gene Foster) (11/29/83)
I could understand such thoughts if you are talking about groups like the Plasmatics or the Dead Kennedys but such disdain for a harmless group like Spandau Ballet? They sing soft rock love songs-- in the words of Paul McCartney, "What's wrong with that? Please clarify in what ways the music or words are "diabolically disgusting". It is not that I like the group so much, rather I just wonder what could generate such feelings. Gene Foster ihuxr!ewf
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (11/30/83)
> I could understand such thoughts if you are talking about > groups like the Plasmatics or the Dead Kennedys but such disdain > for a harmless group like Spandau Ballet? They sing soft rock > love songs-- in the words of Paul McCartney, "What's wrong with > that? Please clarify in what ways the music or words are > "diabolically disgusting". It is not that I like the group > so much, rather I just wonder what could generate such feelings. If you really don't know what's wrong with "that", I'm afraid you're in the wrong newsgroup. This is net.music, not net.muzak (as in "the sound you make is muzak to my ears..." written by one who knew what McCartney was up to). By the way, people seem to be judging Spandau Ballet based on the old Hall&Oates style ripoff (which was originally a Philly soul style ripoff) "True". Actually, before "True" came out Spandau Ballet had a reputation as a new romantic pseudo-funk band, and they hesitated to release "True" in the USA as a single because they feared it would confuse the feeble minds of the American public ("True" was #1 in England almost a year ago.). However, I should clarify my position on the Spandex Ballyhoos by saying that much of their earlier pseudo-funk was *really* "diabolically disgusting" (save "To Cut a Long Story Short"), whereas "True" is just a semi-harmless piece of fluff (I say "semi-" because there is always the danger as with all muzak that it will turn us all into shopping mall zombies purchasing our little lives away). -- Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr