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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:33 pm
More D. BovZ...
But like something off of Never Let Me Down.
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:34 pm
At least it's not all harsh and tinny and earholeally discombobulating.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:35 pm
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:35 pm
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:36 pm
It's like something off the Frozen II soundtrack.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:36 pm
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:38 pm
Going a bit Pineapple Symphony by Kraftwerk, or whatever it was called in German.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:38 pm
It is over.
It was competent but suffered from wooden melodies, wooden vocals, wooden arrangements and wooden production.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:38 pm
I shall give it 3 stars.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:38 pm
Well, that was a bit of a disappointment.
I wasn't expecting much, but compared to ABC it was a truly measly offering.
Crushed by the wheels of industry indeed.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:39 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
Going a bit Pineapple Symphony by Kraftwerk, or whatever it was called in German.
Ananäsimpfönie?
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:41 pm
Imma going give it ★★★ even thought I really didn't like it much.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:41 pm
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:01 pm
I was close.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:10 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Wham would've done this better.
The "Wooh! Wooh!" copied straight from Wham's Bad Boys released just a couple of months earlier was a bit of a poor choice.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:11 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Proper singer determined to get some life into things.
Carol Kenyon. She's a backing singer on everything in the 80s and 90s.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:13 pm
Nightjar wrote:
I bought this song with my own money from a shoppe at the time.
This?
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:13 pm
Butterfield wrote:
Well, I've listened to my copy of this.
Spoiler:
It's okay. It didn't excite me, though some bits were good enough. It reminded me of both the Human League and ABC at times but without the charm of the former and the sparkle and humour of the latter. Their Tina Turner production the following year is far better. It doesn't help that my copy appears to be just about the quietest CD I own; it must be an early pressing - which is a good thing in that regard.
And I prefer the 1992 Brothers in Rhythm remix of Temptation which gave it a much needed lift.
3/5
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:15 pm
Nightjar wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
I know this from someplace.
BBC Radio 2 probably.
I'm sure it must have been a single.
It was. They performed it on Top of the Pops.
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Subject: Re: Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap (1983) Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:16 pm
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