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five star - crap/not crap?

five star are

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bristle-krs said:
the poll the people demanded
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Which people? Have you been listening to the voices in your head again?

Anyways: fucking crap - one of the low points of the 80s. and that's very low.
 
yep, fraid so. there's no kitsch, no humour, no charm to them at all. they are just inexcusably, unforgiveably shit.
 
My old man did their PR before they sold any records, but packed it in because he thought they where crap and wouldn't go any where and he wanted to concentrate on other artists.

Six months later they where massive (albeit briefly). He was kicking himself for that.

Crap.
 
I find the degree of venom spewed 'Star-wards hard to understand. I agree that 'Luxury Of Life' had its teething troubles, but 'Silk And Steel' was the 'OK Computer' of the '80s - a succinct observational statement of the prevailing social and economic trends of the times set to highly radical musical arrangements for the era. The band's post punk influences are blatant on follow-up 'Between The Lines', from which a lineage can be traced back through Stiff Little Fingers and mid-period Clash to Throbbing Gristle and early Cabaret Voltaire. This trajectory into experimental territory was completed on 'Rock Your World', by which time the envelope had been pushed too far for Five Star to renege by merely returning to writing commercial hit singles, and therefore shared more with Talk Talk's 'Spirit Of Eden' and Miles Davis' 'On The Corner' than any of the S/A/W pop muppets that littered the charts at the time. :cool:
 
My sister went to one of those eighties-themed weekenders at Butlins a few weeks ago, and yes, the mighty Five Star were on the bill. Apparently, Stedman (-the one who most thought he was Jacko) looks 'kind of weird'. -No change there then...

They were shit on every level, weren't they? No style over no substance, just utter unoriginality, and the way they flaunted their new-found wealth was so appallingly crass. -Very much a product of the times, of course.

The glitzy-est shoulder pads Romford ever spewed forth...
 
I always remember the guy who phoned in to "Going Live" and asked them why they were so fucking crap.The looks on everyones face was priceless
 
They were appalling !

I heard dad spent the fortune they had, gutted, crap music they made adn tended up with nothing, maybe thats just reward for hours of drivel !
 
:o lucky for the ravers i didn't find my copy of 'system addict' to play of a sunday morning
might have twisted their heads a bit too far :D
:o
 
in my youth i did actually fancy one of the girls for a brief period, but, yeah, the music was shite
 
They weren't that bad at the time - better than the stuff coming out of Stock, Aitken & Waterman. In fact we need a Five Star revival. NOW.

Thank you.
 
Their first track "All Fall Down" was a perfect example of the up-tempo funk at the time, and she sounded a bit like Janet Jackson.

I thought it was rather good, ignoring the daft shoulder pads and the like.

Everything else they did was utter tripe, though.

Feel sorry for them really, in light of the awful and weird things that happened to the family since the height of their fame.

They bought a huge house and stuck a £100,000 recording studio in there, which basically bankrupted them, and then there were incidents in public toilets that would make George Michael blush... oh dear...
 
pidgeonhead said:
They bought a huge house and stuck a £100,000 recording studio in there, which basically bankrupted them, and then there were incidents in public toilets that would make George Michael blush... oh dear...
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I remember NME starting an appeal to help Five Star :D


Remind me about the toilet incident.

They were truly awful.
 
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