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Chemik · Post by **Chemik** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:32 am

My music life was shaped by bands like Bronski Beat. 56 used to sound so old.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38597071

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:39 am

Smalltown boy, besides being a great song, was such a breakthrough video.

fluffy_little_something · Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:13 am

I think that is the only song of theirs I know.
56, crazy, I still remember those boys and their gay hymn as if it were yesterday

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 11:47 pm

RIP Larry, going at 56 is far too early

fluffy_little_something wrote:I think that is the only song of theirs I know.

What you don't know could probably fill a book or two

woggle wrote:Smalltown boy, besides being a great song, was such a breakthrough video.

You mean seeing how railway tickets are bought and how to board a train is done in Britain

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:00 am

Wow. Only 56. RIP

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:23 am

Numanoid wrote:
woggle wrote:Smalltown boy, besides being a great song, was such a breakthrough video.
You mean seeing how railway tickets are bought and how to board a train is done in Britain

Not sure if your being willfully obtuse there or from a more enlightened locale but the video certainly caused some controversy on its release here. The mix of social realism and homoeroticism was a bit much for some poor souls (and Top of the Pops i think).

Whatever, RIP, too young.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:34 am

GaryG wrote:Not sure if your being willfully obtuse there

Well, for all his struggles it all ends rather well, Jimmy meet Larry and Steve on the train and become friends/form band, and they go on to earn loadsamoney

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 10:04 am

well there's more to love than boy meets girl.

(or was that the Communards? Meh, brain...)

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:49 pm

80s stateside the only track i heard was hit that perfect beat which was a perennial in the clubs.

epic new wave track, snoop or someone ought to have done "hit that perfect weed" and given the old track some play.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:54 pm

Hit that perfect beat was also the first track I heard from them, and made me a fan.

Jon Jön got a pretty good voice as well, mix between Steve Strange and Andy Bell.

Then they released C'mon C'mon and I jumped ship to The Communards

That tune, that vid, what were they thinking

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:44 pm

"Smalltown Boy" was a great gay themed song.
Also "Hit The Perfect Beat" with the new singer after Jimmy Somerville left Bronski Beat.

To be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of this falsetto singing of Somerville but Bronski Beat was very fresh and different compared to other chart stuff at this time.

RIP Larry Steinbachek

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:53 pm

4damind wrote:"Smalltown Boy" was a great gay themed song.

I wouldn't limit it to just that.

Anybody with growing pains in a small town can relate to that lyric, sooner or later you need to head for the bright lights of a bigger city.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:09 pm

Numanoid wrote: You mean seeing how railway tickets are bought and how to board a train is done in Britain

actually it's a Yes to that - overwhelmingly most videos then presented some fantasy showbiz world (as they do now) - from memory this was the first and only video at the time that came out of the English social realist film tradition. But basically any pop video that makes the slightest nod to real life and manages widespread popularity is a breakthrough.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:21 pm

Ain't necessarily so is one of my fav tunes of them, but what's with the mince pie eating contest in the vid ?

RIP Larry Steinbachek: Bronski Beat's Bespectacled Lad