Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
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Bartek
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i know i know i should shut my mouth (break my fingers ) when i have nothing nice to say/write. but seriously it was a simple question: for what?/ what was the point of this post ?
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every user to his/her own taste. :wink:

can't answer you as i don't know.
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that was the question to author of this post mrs Here Is The Link To Most Reliable Source Of Information (HITLTMRSOI).
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Oh yes, I'm a mare, a night mare ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... and I can't even explain the world to you, Bartek or justify myself for my assiciations ...

and I wouldn't ask that from you. How's your sweet bitch, btw?
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don't be silly even of you showed me a real truth about the world i would buy it.

danke. since is real winter she more than happy. and she has another victim on her record - a duck. quack quack die.
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hopefully nobody's seen it and you buried it nicely ...

over here a dove been killed in my bathroom ... sad day ...
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Surreal...

Anyway, moving on!

I have a friend how has a white, tight, sleeveless shirt with Sigue Sigue Sputniks name and logo emblazoned in sequins.

It's so horrid it's almost art.
Nationalise the f**king lot.
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ERRATA: don't be silly even of you showed me a real truth about the world i wouldn't buy it.

@Beingwell i wasn't with her on that walk so i don't know.
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Maisey wrote:Surreal...

Anyway, moving on!

I have a friend how has a white, tight, sleeveless shirt with Sigue Sigue Sputniks name and logo emblazoned in sequins.

It's so horrid it's almost art.
Magenta Devine actually had all the t-shirts printed and for sale at Camden market a good year before they even had a rehearsal. It was very much based on hype and marketing, which in a perverse way I kinda like. ;D
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Maisey wrote: It's so horrid it's almost art.
A more damning indictment I have never heard! :wink:
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Looking back they had a rather gormless purity about them. The people who actually did change rock and roll (so to speak), i.e. Mr Cowell et al are something much more offensive....
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I saw SSS as a fall back one night, when The Skellies decided they'd throw in the towel.
Got to the venue & was told, "they've split up mate".
So I trundled down to the Escape club (IIRC) & was a little freaked by the guy in the bogs with the red stilletoe boots who later turned out to be Degville, but it was Brighton, so, whatever.
They were actually not bad. Not taking it too seriously & they sounded great.
But, like Jam~es said.
After one ellpee, the joke wore a bit thin.
But I will always remember "that" interview with the dreadful Muriel Gray person.
OMG did they p!ss her off a treat!

:lol: :notworthy:
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Image

It's complete tat, but ace :D
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Is it a 7"?

:lol:
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3" mini disc (blank)
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
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weebleswobble wrote:3" mini disc (blank)
I gave you it on mp3 IIRC :lol:
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Norman Hunter wrote:
weebleswobble wrote:3" mini disc (blank)
I gave you it on mp3 IIRC :lol:
that you did :oops:

haven't listened to it though :wink:
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mh wrote:
abridged wrote:At least they annoyed the NME for a while.... ;D
Which makes them somewhat more acceptable. :D

Wouldn't have called them total pants, like you I enjoyed some of their stuff, but they were nowhere near as radical and dangerous as they seemed to think they were.
That's actually what I think about SSS too, reading about their history they seem more like a publicity stunt with an attached musical group than vice versa. What I've heard from their second album certainly sounds less interesting than Flaunt It, and more generic 1980s synthpop. I even watched one of the videos from later on, and it looked like they'd ditched the costumes! :urff:
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Stock Aitken and Waterman = Success



or not :urff:
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
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mh wrote:
abridged wrote:At least they annoyed the NME for a while.... ;D
but they were nowhere near as radical and dangerous as they seemed to think they were.
That just about sums it up really. The launch of the group, the image, the press soundbites, was/were a masterplan.........but sadly bar a couple of songs, they just didn't have the tunes.

IMO they over cooked things and tried to be a bit too ground breaking. If they'd stuck to punk/new wave tunes with plenty of synth over the top, they'd have probably been much bigger than they were & perhaps even become the new genre/future of rock n roll that they harped on about.
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classic intro to an SSS interview with muriel grey:

"And now we're with the band that everyone's been hearing about but no one's been talking about..."

genious :lol:

completely one dimensional, very OTT and deeply silly, but i loves 'em :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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weebleswobble wrote:
Norman Hunter wrote:
weebleswobble wrote:3" mini disc (blank)
I gave you it on mp3 IIRC :lol:
that you did :oops:

haven't listened to it though :wink:
:lol:
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SSS = Suicide for the pantomime generation.
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
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Norman Hunter wrote:Image

It's complete tat, but ace :D
Yes, and yes!

Massive Retaliation (or Massive Retail as it mebbe should've been called) is still up there with the recorded works of Trans-X and Westworld as an 80s camp pop classic. "Sense-my-sation, baby." Inspired!
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