Entertainment For Lively Minds
Billy Idol
Posted by DougieJ on 29 January 2010 - 11:29pm.
The former William Michael Albert Broad has often been a figure of some mockery, but I submit, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that his 1986 album Whiplash Smile, from whence the track below hails, was a corker:
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Billy always gets a
thumbs up from me...
I thought "White Wedding" was a great record.
As with other 80s names
mentioned on here recently, such as P**l C*****s, MTV ubiquity is the reason they are diminished / written off / mocked today.
Face Value...
Good record. Played on my portable turntable relentlessly in the mid 80s, along with 'Vital Idol.'
There you go, I've said it. I haven't always been so hip it hurts. (Actually, I'm about to turn 40 and no longer give a f*ck.) ;-)
Edit: I have just Spotified 'Face Value' & found 'Hello I Must Be Going' which was also much played by me and my mate Jonny. I think these records belonged to his elder bro... My mum also had a Collins fixation which results in me being quite familiar with 'No Jacket Required,' which, although very 80s sounding is still a decent record. I played Phil along with The Beatles & Billy Idol & Michael Jackson & Elvis & The Human League, and all kinds of other stuff. Quite unselfconsciously. Happy innocent days. Being 'cool' is where it all kinda goes wrong (and right, simultaneously...)
you've got my vote
have been playing that very album on heavy rotation on Spotify just this week. Soul Standing By & Don't Need a Gun still firm favourites. He once slapped his leather clad leg on my office desk to show me his scars. Took slight umbrage at my poster of Charlie Sexton on prominent display. Happy days...
You're on form tonight
Dougie. I played that album to death much to the confusion of my jazz funk loving mates at the time. Although they did ackowledge "Sweet 16" as a tune.
Edit: this is fantastic too from that album. Shades of Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Ugh!
William Bell would be turning in his grave if he was dead.
If a more 'cred' opinion is required
none other than Edwyn Collins mentioned it as one of his favourite albums of that year, in a publication I can't quite remember, but may well have been 'The Cut' a late lamented Scottish music paper.
On second thought, it may even have been the NME. Whatever - it wasn't exactly a fashionable opinion at the time, B.I. being widely considered a vacuous L.A. phoney, or somesuch...
I don't own any Billy Idol records...
but I'm fully in favour of his comedy sneer, ludicrous attire and obsession with motorbikes. Good fun.
Genuinely brilliant:
A man not very likely to be allowed entry to Tesco...
Mmmmm
I'm experiencing a frisson of erotic man-love...
I like the...
...Anti-vampire toolbelt.
I think the Pope should invest in one of those...
it could help him to get dahn wiv da kids.