Taking Sides: "True" vs "Gold"

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by Spandau Ballet. This came up during Pete's Pub Crawl and is too important for ILM obviously. I think the final count was a draw but "True" loyalists were claiming victory. If you don't think both are marvellous you should not be contributing to this thread.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll go with True. Gold is just insanely flamboyant, which is of course it's greatness, but True it is.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I contribute to this thread if I think both are crap?

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold, but it's very close.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Freeze" is the best Spandau Ballet song.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

John D. to thread--!

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Cannot agree with Nicole. It's "Gold" by a landslide, for uninteresting musical reasons (making a record that sounds like the lost disco soundtrack to a lost Lucio Fulci movie is just an awesome thing to do; the irresistibly brazen/predictable melodic gambit of "oh, but I'm proud of you/but I'm proud of you") and what are to me the key elements of Spandau Ballet's godhood: inexplicable confidence, ease of use, and their whole impregnable-fortress-of-meaning approach to songwriting. To tease out narrative from the lyrics to "Gold," you have to use a damned blowtorch. And two or three other songs, ballads at that. Because "Gold" is the supernova where signification goes to die. There is no there there.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:55 (twenty-three years ago)

But Nicole said Gold, didn't she?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 30 December 2002 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, you're probably just disagreeing with her about it being a close call then. Nevermind...

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 30 December 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

""Gold" is the supernova where signification goes to die"

!!!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 30 December 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Gold - it's an up tempo pop song and one that shows how the Ballet are not afraid to rock out. Plus it always gets played during the Olympics.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 30 December 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Through the Barricades (nb I am evil, and will never ever follow the canon of true or gold)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

True wins on verses
Gold wins on chorus

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

It's that stuff that was sampled by PM Dawn that gets True the vote.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, I quite like Lifeline.

"So live and let live in love..."

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

True wins on verses
Gold wins on chorus

I agree. The baby of the two songs would be brillant.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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