Monday, June 3, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - Dead or Alive - Youthquake

Dead or Alive - Youthquake


#185
May 1985
Dead or Alive
Youthquake
4 out of 5


Highlights:
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Big Daddy of the Rhythm
Lover Come Back (To Me)
My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)

Oh, the incongruity of it all. Pete Burns sounds like a snotty goth-punk, the music is amped up disco (is this…the beginnings of “House”?) and it’s so fucking infectious I wanna do lines off the glass coffee table and hit the dance floor. 
Like most of this style a little goes a log way. “DJ Hit that Button” is excellent. Until the 7th minute or so. And then you realize that the song is actually 3:25 and that’s when it hits you: This is meant for the dance floor. Not for listening on a sunny Friday afternoon during lunch. 
But I kind of want to get to that dance floor. Screw this lunch. 


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