I was a huge Bananarama fan in the early '80s. I had to buy a second copy of Deep Sea Skiving because I wore the first one out. I was 10 years old, and I remember thinking I wish I WAS in their shoes while singing along to "What A Shambles" (I didn't understand what it meant at the time). Like Jimmy Scouse, when I first saw the video for "Everybody" I thought Madonna was trying to look like Siobhan, although I never got into any fistfights with anyone about it. Sadly when True Confessions came out I was on the borderline between being a Bananarama fan and becoming a hardcore obsessive about Siouxsie. When they went all Stock-Aitken-Waterman on Wow I stopped listening to them. But just recently I have started listening to a lot of Bananarama again (I just burned a CDR with my favorite Bananarama and Shakespear's Sister tracks) and collecting the old Bananarama 12"s I didn't have already. "Bitter Pill" is also on Larry Tee's electroclash mix CD set (CD #2) if anyone's interested. Last night when I went to Area 10009 I wore these baggy jeans that I rolled up a la Bananarama in the "Cruel Summer" video and I was humming "Shy Boy" while I was walking to the club until this jackass sitting on his steps with his retardo friends yelled out and called me Noah waiting for the flood, and then someone else in the group called me Erkel....
You're too old, you're somebody's mom, that outfit you wearin' is not the bomb.