Sigue Sigue Sputnik
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Lazlo Nibble
> Does anyone have a Sigue Sigue Sputnik discography?
I do. It's nowhere near complete (lacking mostly in 7" singles and the
DRESS FOR EXCESS 12"s) but I'll email you a copy. If anyone else out
there likes sSs and can help fill in holes, let me know and I'll send you
a copy too.
...Peace. Lazlo (la...@triton.unm.edu)
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Grimly Fiendish
Sigue Sigue Sputnik! Jeez, didn't you all get the joke by now?
:)
--Grimly
Lazlo Nibble
> Sigue Sigue Sputnik! Jeez, didn't you all get the joke by now? :-)
I didn't just get the joke, I'm PART OF the joke! Come on, a sSs discography
by someone who COLLECTS them? Jeeeeez!
...Peace. Lazlo (la...@triton.unm.edu)
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buy it. We just have to get the fuck out of the way."
Claudio Tinnirello
i'm at work, so this is off the top of my head (as usual).
Albinoni Vs. Star Wars - 12"
1. Albinoni Vs. Star Wars (Part 1 Extended)
2. Albinoni Vs. Star Wars (Part 2 Extended)
Dancerama [or "Is It Love ?"] - 12"
1. Dancerama (12" Mix)
2a.Dancerama (7" Mix)
2b.Barbarandroid
Dancerama - 12" Picture Disc
1a. The Dancerama Club (Intro)
1b. Dancerama (7" Mix)
2a. Dancerama (Album Mix Extended)
2b. Barbarandroid
Dancerama [or "Is It Sex ?] - 12" Remixes
1. Dancerama (Kashmir remix)
2a. Dancerama (Saxy remix)
2b. Barbarandriod
Success - 12"
1. Success (Extended)
2a.Success (7" mix)
2b.Frankenstein-Cha-Cha
Success (Acid mixes) - 12" remixes
1. Success (Acid)
2a.Success (Baleracidic)
2b.Success (Acid dub)
Rio Rocks - 12"
1. Rio Rocks (Extended)
2. Aliens (Extended)
Rio Rocks - 12" remixes
1. Rio Rocks (Samba Extended)
2a.Rio Rocks (7" Samba)
2b.Rio Rocks (Acid Samba)
<phew> there ya go Lazlo n' others.
don't take the above list too seriously ! i'm guessing at some of
the "Success" remix titles.
let me know if you need a more acurate list and i'll look 'em up
when i get home.
claudio
elba...@eos.ncsu.edu
SSS was founded by the former bassist of the post-70's punk
rock group Generation X (Billy Idol's former band), Tony James.
James had come up with the idea to put together a band with the sole
intent of making money. He recruited the members of the band because he
"thought they would look good on stage", not because of any musical talent,
which some or none did when he hired them. James then pitched the idea to
EMI Records, which gave them a ludicrous multimillion dollar contract. What
was even more ludicrous was the fact that James had sold all of the dead space
(the space between songs) to companies wishing to advertise on it. Then
James went on an advertising blitz, getting SSS an article in People Magazine,
and James himself appeared briefly on MTV as a late-night VJ. The whole thing
was hilarious. He made it look like he had pirated MTV's satelitte feed and
replacing it with Sputnik Television.. with Tony James ("Later in the hour,
we will have the hourly unconfirmed rumors report, commercials, and maybe
even some music videos"). They even played a few live concerts in select
cities. The stage setup was incredible. The back of the stage was lined
with television screens, and at the top of the stack of tv's was a satelitte
dish. During the show, they would show tv from all around the globe, and of
course they played some songs. The album Flaunt It was new and refreshing
with samples from just about everywhere they could think of, including
a lot from the movie "Blade Runner". They used those samples by playing them
backwards, forwards speeded up and slowed down, and believe they even tried
one sideways. They had one video (at least that's all I ever saw) for the
song "21st Century Boy". It was very futuristic and filled with techincal
computer effects and the such. After that I didn't here much about them...
till Dress for Success came in 1988. Anyway here's the rest of the Sputnik
Data I have:
Sigue Sigue Sputnik are:
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Martin Degville-Vocals
Neal X-Guitars
Tony James-Space Guitar(bass)
Ray Mayhew-Drums
Chris Kavanagh-Drums
Yana Ya-Ya-Weird Effects and Keyboards
Love Missile F1-11 (EP) 1986
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-Love Missile F1-11(Extended Version)
-Love Missile F1-11(Dance Version)
-Love Missile F1-11(Single Version)
-Love Missile F1-11(Bangkok Remix)
Flaunt It 1986
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-Love Missile F1-11
-Atari Baby
-Sex-Bomb-Boogie
-Rock It Miss U.S.A
-21st Century Boy
-Massive Retalliation
-Teenage Thunder
-She's My Man
Soundtrack- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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-Love Missile F1-11
Soundtrack- Armed and Dangerous
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-She's My Man
Dress for Excess 1988
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-Albinoni vs. Star Wars(Parts 1 & 2)
-Boom Boom Satellite
-Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar!
-Super Crook Blues
-Rio Rocks!
-Success
-Dancerama
-Orgasm
-M*A*D (Mutual Assured Destruction)
-Is This The Future?
I'm sure I am missing a lot of the single re-mixes and stuff, but that is
basically the informal history of Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
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>James went on an advertising blitz, getting SSS an article in People Magazine,
>and James himself appeared briefly on MTV as a late-night VJ. The whole thing
>was hilarious. He made it look like he had pirated MTV's satelitte feed and
>replacing it with Sputnik Television.. with Tony James ("Later in the hour,
>we will have the hourly unconfirmed rumors report, commercials, and maybe
>even some music videos").
Does anyone have this MTV stint on videotape? I'd love to see this again.
>course they played some songs. The album Flaunt It was new and refreshing
>with samples from just about everywhere they could think of, including
>a lot from the movie "Blade Runner".
sSs also pays extensive homage to A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, both in the music and
on album covers, promo posters ... the list goes on :-).
Sputnik is perhaps the only group to which you could accuse them of "all
style, no substance" and have them take it as a compliment :-). I've
always respected their blatant stabs at the music industry, advertising,
media, and themselves, while putting out quite listenable (if not terribly
musically inventive) high-tech tunes. As the SputBoys say, "A sense of
humour is always essential!"
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Al Crawford
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>even some music videos"). They even played a few live concerts in select
>cities. The stage setup was incredible. The back of the stage was lined
>with television screens, and at the top of the stack of tv's was a satelitte
>dish. During the show, they would show tv from all around the globe, and of
>course they played some songs.
Actually, "live" would be stretching the description somewhat. They (in
typical sSs style) mimed to tapes at the early shows. I'm sure I heard
somewhere that *everything* was on the tape, not just backing tracks. They
managed to cause quite a controversy by doing this (I've a feeling there was
a riot at one show because of this. Anyone know for sure?). They certainly
caused a riot at either their Glasgow or Edinburgh show by saying some rather
unpleasant things about Scots - not a wise move.
Still, they were fun and it's been a few years since anything as colourful and,
let's face it, ridiculous as the Sputniks has hit the UK music scene.
--
Al Crawford - Al_Cr...@edinburgh.ac.uk
"Breakdown. Splinter. A thousand fragments disperse and die."
Ray Shea
> Does anyone have a Sigue Sigue Sputnik discography?
Yes.
--
Ray Shea "Most of the attacks upon white women of the South
are the direct result of the cocaine-crazed
Negro brain." --Dr. Edward H. Williams, in the
ntmtv!sh...@ames.arc.nasa.gov New York Times, Feb. 8, 1914
Al Crawford
Degville's new solo album "World War Four" came out in the UK this week. I've
not heard it but the cover (Degville looking like a cross between Rambo, the
guy with the moustache from Spinal Tap and something out of V with the title
and artist name in very Rambo-esque writing) and the song titles (Half of them
seem to have "Sex" or "Violence" somewhere in the title :) seem very Sputniky.
If anyone does buy it (it's on Receiver Records, BTW) can they post a review?
D.A.J.Moor
>Actually, "live" would be stretching the description somewhat. They (in
>typical sSs style) mimed to tapes at the early shows. I'm sure I heard
>somewhere that *everything* was on the tape, not just backing tracks.
You sholdn't belive everything that you "heard somewhere". Did you ever see
Sigue Sigue Sputnik? I did, and I can tell you for a FACT that they did not
mime. As Tony James said on Wogan, why would they spend 5 years learning to
play their instruments and then mime to backing tapes.
And what do you meen by early shows? They where playing the college circuit
long before Love Missile F1-11 came out.
David, in an I was there stylie
Al Crawford
>In article <95...@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Al_Cr...@edinburgh.ac.uk (Me) writes:
>>Actually, "live" would be stretching the description somewhat. They (in
>>typical sSs style) mimed to tapes at the early shows. I'm sure I heard
>>somewhere that *everything* was on the tape, not just backing tracks.
>
>You sholdn't belive everything that you "heard somewhere".
Did I say that I believed it? I said that I heard it, hence the phrase "I heard
somewhere that". Dead giveaway. You want perhaps I should quote references in
future? Or maybe "I heard somewhere that but this shouldn't be taken as fact
because you can't believe everything you hear"?
>And what do you meen by early shows? They where playing the college circuit
>long before Love Missile F1-11 came out.
This would be just about the time of Love Missile F1-11 when the hype was at
its peak. Its quite possible that the miming story was part of the media circus
that was surrounding the group at the time. As I said, I wasn't stating this
information as fact, just speculation. If we were to require that every posting
in this newsgroup be certified true by someone who "was there" we'd solve all
these arguments about excessive volume of news in one fell swoop.
The piece about the near riot at the Scottish gig is, however, true. A friend
of mine was planning to go and called off at the last minute because of stories
of violence etc at shows in England (I guess you want me to say that these
were only rumours since I can't provide a signed statement by Tony James) and
was glad afterwards that he hadn't since things turned really nasty at the
show. I can't remember the exact phrase Degville shouted at the audience but
it didn't go down very well.
>David, in an I was there stylie
Al, in an "I wasn't there but I don't see why that should prevent me from
posting on the subject" stylie (whatever that is).
Roy Riggs
> Does anyone have a Sigue Sigue Sputnik discography?
I don't have a discography on hand, but I have noticed one missing from
other peoples lists:
Sputnik - The First Generation (c) 1990 Jungle Records
Its got 11 tracks, the first 7 are remixes of old songs, and four new ones.
Ultra Violence, Krush Groove Girls, Rockajet Baby, and a cover of
Rebel Rebel.
PS. If anyone has any sSs stuff they want to sell, tshirts, posters,
singles, video, etc. Please email!!!!!
fur - r...@gnu.ai.mit.edu