Posted January 25, 201510 yr Having a go at seeing how a battle of 2 great bands (still on "A" artists) goes - same format as with the Abba Quickie Rate, you can only pick your five faves, and it's from the entire combines back catalogue of both acts - you only get ONE top 5 and can include any tracks from either (Including solo Adam Ant) but to avoid confusion list the act with the song in case I don't know it! So no top 5's for both acts, just the one, if you love ABC and Adam Ant is just meh! then vote for them - and vice versa, cos a number one is worth 10 points, and a 5 is worth 1 point. As always it's the Biiiiiiiig Love that counts! The result rate rundown length will depend on number of tracks voted for, and the winner will be the act declared with the most total points. Post or PM away! A quick reminder of their finest/famous moments: 1980: Dog Eat Dog/Kings Of The Wild Frontier/ Antmusic - Adam & The Ants 1981: Stand & Deliver/ Prince Charming/Antrap - Adam & The Ants Tears Are Not Enough - ABC 1982: Goody two Shoes - Adam Ant Poison Arrow/ The Look Of Love/ All Of My Heart - ABC 1983: Puss N Boots - Adam Ant 1984: Apollo 9 - Adam Ant 1987: When Smokey Sings - ABC There are plenty of minor gems though... My Top 5: 1. The Look Of Love - ABC 2. Poison Arrow - ABC 3. All Of My Heart - ABC 4. Antrap - Adam & The Ants 5. When Smokey Sings - ABC So, biased in favour of one act, me!
January 25, 201510 yr Ant rap? Really? That was awful! Think mine will be skewed in favour of Mr Goddard. Will do this in a minute!
January 25, 201510 yr an interesting idea, though mine will be more in favour of Mr Goddard... 1. ABC - The Look Of Love 2. Adam & The Ants - Antmusic 3. Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes 4. Adam Ant - Apollo 9 5. ABC - Date Stamp Harder than I thought it'd be. No room for Stand & Deliver, Friend Or Foe etc...
January 25, 201510 yr 1. Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants 2. Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants 3. Killer In The Home - Adam and the Ants 4. That Was Then But This Is Now - ABC 5. Deutscher Girls - Adam and the Ants Close but... Dog Eat Dog - Adam and the Ants Car Trouble - Adam and the Ants Be Near Me - ABC
January 25, 201510 yr Author Ant rap? Really? That was awful! Think mine will be skewed in favour of Mr Goddard. Will do this in a minute! Thanks, I had a feeling Adam might be favoured - and yes everyone hated Antrap at the time, I gleefully loved the complete lack of a tune, the heavy percussion, the riffy guitars, the rapping, and Lulu in the video dressed as a mediaeval princess. Fab! Ahead of his time, he was, anticipating future musical developments there B-)
January 25, 201510 yr Well......okay......here's mine..... 1 Antmusic-Adam & the Ants 2 Prince Charming Adam & the Ants 3 The Look of Love ABC 4 Stand and Deliver Adam & the Ants 5 Poison Arrow ABC Just missing out, for me, at least... Dog Eat Dog Kings of the Wild Frontier When Smokey Sings
January 25, 201510 yr Thanks, I had a feeling Adam might be favoured - and yes everyone hated Antrap at the time, I gleefully loved the complete lack of a tune, the heavy percussion, the riffy guitars, the rapping, and Lulu in the video dressed as a mediaeval princess. Fab! Ahead of his time, he was, anticipating future musical developments there B-) Apart from the two #1's the rest of Prince Charming (the album) is largely forgettable apart from these 2: 3smAldujdZk 5w-_y5G52us
January 25, 201510 yr Author Apart from the two #1's the rest of Prince Charming (the album) is largely forgettable apart from these 2: I never bought the Prince Charming album but that Scorpio track is terrific thanks for the tip! I have got Kings Of the Wild Frontier, was always partial to Jolly Roger outside the singles.
January 27, 201510 yr 1 Look Of Love 2 Ant Music 3 All Of My Heart 4 Room At The Top (Adam Ant) 5 When Smokey Sings
January 30, 201510 yr 1 Stand And Deliver 2 Prince Charming 3 Kings Of The Wild Frontier 4 All Of My Heart 5 Antmusic Goddard wins :D
January 30, 201510 yr I'm not really that familiar with ABC unfortunately so it's a largely ANTS dominated top 5 for me... 01 Stand and Deliver (surprise surprise!) 02 Antmusic 03 Kings of the Wild Frontier 04 Prince Charming 05 All of my Heart
February 4, 201510 yr Author So much love for Adam! I'll give it another week or so before running down, in case there are some ABC fans looking to give Mr Ant more of a fight, otherwise, the interest will be on the individual tracks positions as opposed to any edge-of-the-seat who's going to come out on top! :lol:
February 4, 201510 yr The Ants were my first ever favourite band so obviously all Adam And The Ants tracks 01 - Kings Of The Wild Frontier 02 - Stand And Deliver 03 - You're So Physical 04 - Ants Invasion 05 - Cleopatra close but... Dog Eat Dog Feed Me To The Lions Zerox Whip In My Valise Out of curiosity, how many were aware of this little bit of 'stealing' 0t8wc6Soyl0 Edited February 4, 201510 yr by Severin
February 4, 201510 yr Not a clue - but I have a soft spot for When Smokie Sings. Edited February 5, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
February 4, 201510 yr Author Out of curiosity, how many were aware of this little bit of 'stealing' crikey it's a wonder Adam wasn't sued! Presumably Rolf was busy elsewhere at the time....
February 4, 201510 yr crikey it's a wonder Adam wasn't sued! Presumably Rolf was busy elsewhere at the time.... He was sued, and he paid up.
February 11, 201510 yr Author Just a few loyal voters, so a mere 19 nominated tracks, and omitting the one-pointers gives a convenient top 15. I won’t pretend there’s any suspense - Adam won this by a landslide, though when I mentioned it to my fanzine fans on Saturday ABC were the clear faves there, but I think Adam is the better loved overall in the real world, so it’s only fair! Without further ado.. 15th: That Was Then But This Is Now - ABC (2 points, 1 voter) -1kJyLGUKxE 1983 single, and a less-polished non-Trevor-Horn-produced follow up to the classic album The Lexicon Of Love (off Beauty Stab), this track was pretty insistent, and it was very much the direction ABC were taking after their lauded 1981/1982 days: lower chart positions (UK 18), personnel changes, and lower sales. I liked this but preferred the follow-up smoother (if less-exciting) ballad SOS. Oddly enough the next couple of years saw them grabbing a big US hit single with a minor UK chart single (Be Near Me US 9).
February 11, 201510 yr Author 14th: Room At The Top - Adam Ant (2 points, 1 voter, UK peak 13, 7 weeks) g4tSoH5R_Vs One of Adam’s many comeback singles, this one from 1990 and sounding very 1990 to boot, no more tribal rhythms, it’s more rock-dancepop of the time, which is perhaps why I didn’t get on with it as much as his earlier stuff - it just didn’t sound quite right to me, though there’s nothing wrong with it as such, and it’s always a joy to have Adam back. At the time he was guesting on various American TV shows as a popstar-actor, one I most fondly remember is as a British rogue in the under-rated cop-show sitcom pastiche Sledge Hammer! and a few years later voice-only in the brilliant, still-classy Batman: The Animated Series.
February 11, 201510 yr Author 13th: Apollo 9 - Adam Ant (2 points, 1 voter, UK 13, 8 weeks) wbdWt3UDXhs This was a return to form for Adam after a couple of years of declining popularity and less-good records following the folding of The Ants, this could have followed quite happily in the footsteps of Goody Two Shoes without sounding out of place - maybe it was the return of a proper band (and Marco) that helped. It was his chart gasp really, though as the follow-up stiffed relatively (Viva Le Rock) despite a massive plug at the mega-Live Aid. Geldof saw Adam as not a major draw (which he wasn’t by then) so only gave him one song and he unforgivably plugged his flop single instead of doing this much better track, or the one he should have done to remind everyone how good he was - Antmusic. Though Stand And Deliver might have taken on a whole new meaning in the circumstances, too and boosted his career again. Not to be, sadly.
February 11, 201510 yr Author 12th: Antrap - Adam & The Ants (2 points, 1 voter, UK 3) SvtzHxr-7g8 OK, I was that voter! There comes a time in every big pop star’s career when the knives come out - and this was that time for Adam. It was a departure for pop at the time, incorporating that novelty-passing-fad called rap music (honestly, that’s what everyone said at the time) and did away with melody almost entirely. What was left though, was delicious percussive rhythms, Adam showing he could actually rap, thank you very much, and the occasional guitar-bursts punctuating the tempo were fab. It also had Adam in a suit of armor and Lulu as his Princess. I still can’t see why it was so hated over the winter of 81/82. Hey ho, at least I see it as pioneering if no-one else does. Not to mention exciting!
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