Posted January 1, 200916 yr the Jing Jang Jong award for most hyped epic fail of all the previous retro years Of all the newbies hyped in the press on years gone by who are now in a nomans land of randomness nonenterties headed by the asian bloke in a dress from babylon zoo and menswe@r ...which acts those 'big stars of...19?? campaigns' that were over-hyped and let us down by selling nothing...which fails were justified and which should have been contenders???
January 1, 200916 yr The most famous example just has to be....... pk30a0qsVIk Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (1986 UK#3) The band played a style of new wave music similar to New York electronica duo Suicide and Swiss techno-rock duo Yello, by layering vocals, yelps, guitar riffs, electronic sound effects and short samples over pulsating synthesizer bass lines. Or as Smash Hits described them "Duran Duran on Speed". Their use of video montage, as well as their music, is similar to that of the American New Wave act Devo. The themes and imagery in the band's songs were often influenced by futuristic, dystopian or post-apocalyptic films such as A Clockwork Orange, The Terminator, Blade Runner and the Mad Max trilogy. The band's music and image also mashed together a range of other pop culture influences, including the electronica/Krautrock influences of Kraftwerk, Marc Bolan's T-Rex, and the swagger and sex appeal of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and glam rock. The "packaging" of the band's appearance and presentation was carefully considered well before the band ever performed in public. Inspired by the Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren's unorthodox methods of promoting a band, Tony James generated a great deal of hype about Sigue Sigue Sputnik, while not allowing anyone from the music industry a chance to hear the band. Tony James famously showed record executives a short video collage of futuristic and science-fiction movie clips as a "demo tape" of the band. The buzz became a frenzy as several record labels began a bidding war to sign Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Tony James finally settled on EMI which was rumoured to have given the band a substantial advance (£4 million). 28hFIxgtv0o Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century Boy (1986 UK#20) Yet the debut single "only" reached UK#3 & the album "Flaunt It" only made a disastrous UK#10. The group split soon after the release of their second album, Dress for Excess (the initial single from which, "Success", was produced by British hitmakers Stock, Aitken and Waterman). Tony James stated that the band "...couldn't sustain this pretend bast*rdized version of Sputnik". James also blamed the media for the band's downfall. When Sputnik's first singles were released, the media and James's promotional efforts worked symbiotically, sharing the benefits of the band's hype and shock value. Once the initial shock and tabloid outrage over the band's unusual image and appearance had worn off, media coverage became dismissive, criticizing the band's focus on image and style. yiLW6h2DeQw Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success (1988 UK#31) :puke:
January 1, 200916 yr Actually I LOVED Success. Their only good one IMHO. Really don't get the anti SAW bias on this board, considering it's full of Kylie fans... Menswear for 1995/96 and Rialto for 1998 spring to mind. Largely because they were $h!te though.
January 3, 200916 yr . Really don't get the anti SAW bias on this board, considering it's full of Kylie fans... try reading the pinned thread on why saw ruined pop..... its fully explained there. of course if you have and would like to add your view please feel free, but tryng to find a fan who wasnt either gay or 10 years old when they became big in the late 80's is as rare as a white christmas ..... theres a reason why the pre and post punk generation hate them m8. as for kylie.... its generally overlooked/forgotten/ignored even forgiven that she started with them as the majority of her material and arguably her best was done after watertwats manipulations.
January 5, 200916 yr try reading the pinned thread on why saw ruined pop..... its fully explained there. of course if you have and would like to add your view please feel free, but tryng to find a fan who wasnt either gay or 10 years old when they became big in the late 80's is as rare as a white christmas ..... I was both :P OK I do have an argument, and I'm going to present it there sooner or later, but answer me this - why does someone's sexuality or age make their taste in music less valid?
January 5, 200916 yr I was both :P OK I do have an argument, and I'm going to present it there sooner or later, but answer me this - why does someone's sexuality or age make their taste in music less valid? good question.... and im in 2 minds about this. on one hand id suggest that age/sexuality /race/ anything shouldnt make any difference and that everyones opinion is equally vallied however wouldnt you agree that an experienced music fan like john peel for eg has a much better opinion then say fearne cotton?...:lol: id sooner our charts be made up of opinions made by people with knowlege/taste then by 10 year old girls . waterman has deliberately courted the young/young gay market, ok their opinion to them is vallied, but arnt watermans 'fans' only a minority of music fans which gave an uneven bias in the charts of the late 80's? 'teenyboppers' have always been something of a joke, and yes, the early 70's was the age of the teenybopper. osmonds, cassidy, jacksons, bcr, etc were all aimed at the young market (id include gary glitter but will refrain...lol), in the early 80's adam ant, duran duran, wham! etc all appealed to the teen market.... so whats the difference? INDIVIDUALITY thats what. all previous 'teenybopper' acts or acts adopted by young actually had an identity, and that by and large transcended the target audience. duran duran were big with ten year old girls, but their music was good enough in its own right to appeal to us older fans. you didnt get this with s/a/w , there was no individuality, no identity, but just shameless dumb down marketing that added nothing to our rich musical heritage.... totally unlike (nearly) all previous teeny favs.
January 5, 200916 yr Author The most famous example just has to be....... pk30a0qsVIk Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (1986 UK#3) so not reef then?!?!? :lol: actually Sputnik for being like a really old band from the 80s with tights over their heads..actually look less embarrasing and less dumb than some of the big hair normal people who heve turned out looking to me even more dated and ridiculas...and Sputnik is probs an idea that finetuning it for a few more years with different production might have worked in a later time frame as it was so bizarre to start off with (tho obv coming from both punk and that gender bending thing) and when i was watching this on totp2 i thought the vocals were a bit pete burns a like - reminded me as a beatbox rock n roll version of dead or alive...if instead of being back by the people who would write for s club were back by random blokes from big aidio dynamite..so its not surprising that they went to British hitmakers Stock, Aitken and Waterman http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/BillyIdolFist.jpg
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