also, i wanna hang out with NeverEnough. she sounds like fun.

I thought the premise was that through the first two decades of their existence, to anyone with a bullshit detector, DD were not quite “cool.” (Not to me, mind you! I had a Fab Five poster on my wall in ’85. But I write about Billboard for a living.)

MisShapes?

I say “almost” because it’d be a rewriting of history to pretend that the New Romantics weren’t watched and critically appraised by the indie press, even back in the ’80s. For example, both the early ’90s Trouser Press and the mid-’90s SPIN Alternative Record Guide include essays on DD’s body of work — the implication being that merely including them in these books means they’re worthy of assessment even if, say, Spandau Ballet aren’t. Mind you, both essays come to predictable conclusions: first two records good bordering on brilliant (esp. Rio), the rest gradually worthless and stupid. Even so, I don’t know that this equates to “cool” in the eyes of Ira Robbins types.

So, bottom line, it’s an arguable premise, even if it makes for a painfully glib article.

This opinion is not at all colored by the fact that I want John Taylor to call me “naughty”, punch me in the face and roughly fuck my mouth.

Just sayin’.