I am having trouble thinking of any further examples of this in the Nu-Ro canon. Format: Digital Media, Year: 2004, Label: Columbia, Barcode: 884977888454, Length: 57:30 His Valentino is actually quite devastating – a revelation, both in terms of Valentino and Ant. Adam Ant - Prince Charming (1981) Vinyl LP • And the Ants, Rap. By the way, the newer track I played for you a while back is the best thing on that album… keep that in mind. Until last month. Adam Ant wrote this song with his guitarist, Marco Pirroni, who Ant credits with giving his music a commercial appeal. The album started with a fascinating bang when “Scorpios” played back. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The album ended with a hidden bonus track appended to “S.E.X.,” the throwaway “Lost Hawaiians.”. I suppose Adam (with or without the Ants) was more of a singles artist, and I certainly can’t argue that Prince Charming is a great album, but for me he was the total package of sound and image. Format CD. Label CBS. It starts with Adam as Cinders, his bandmates singing to him: It’s a touching image of male camaraderie in the British youth cult tradition, and reminds me somewhat of Bowie’s ‘When you’re a boy/Other boys check you out‘ line from ‘Boys Keep Swinging’. At that price, you buy it and see what you think! Tossing the phallic pistol and replacing it with a mirror is a provocatively fey gesture, as befits the ravishing passivity of male vanity. The ‘threesome’ mirror-shot that invites the viewer to gaze on a beautiful young man gazing at himself is a trope which has become a cliche in the decades since, in a world where metrosexuality is completely mainstream and corporate and social me-dia is rampant. ‘Stand and Deliver’ ends as it began, just you, me, Adam and his reflection sharing an intimate moment: a close-up on mirrored glossy lips again, as if (re)discovering their own irresistibility. With admirable arrogance, this slightly odd-looking, very tiny man from the humblest of backgrounds imaginable has, via the powerful transformative magick of pop, inserted himself into the immortal iconography of male celluloid stars. I have to admit, I’m on Taffy’s side here. Scorpios is sleazy antmusic for lounge people, Five Guns West a fun spaghetti western interlude, Picasso a kitschy little excuse for whoops and tropical sound effects. Side 2 Stand and Deliver Mile High Club Ant Rap Mowhok S.E.X. Home. I bought the single as an import 7″ and found it to be the best Adam + The Ants single ever. I was resistant to the much-ballyhooed charms of Adam + the Ants in the wacky days of 1980-81 and New Wave. Directed by Adam Ant, Mike Mansfield. And frankly, has anyone worn lip gloss and full foundation better? Ridicule is a form of attention, after all. to country [Roseanne Cash] with all points in between. This meant that the genres here ran the gamut from metal [Judas Priest!] It’s hard to believe that there was ever a time when crass junk like Loverboy would have had a hard time getting airplay but there you are. Learn how your comment data is processed. Decades later, when I found out that the song had in fact been summarily ripped off from Rolf Harris’ “War Canoe,” I wondered what would make Adam lift the entire music bed from this misbegotten novelty track. Catalogue Number CBS 85268. shipping: + $2.97 shipping . Label Sony/Columbia. The tongue-in-cheek but seriously extravagant by the standards of the time ‘dandy highwayman’ promos for ‘Stand and Deliver’ and ‘Prince Charming’, both shot in a day and released in 1981 (forty years ago next year), were at least as influential in shaping the sensibility of the 1980s as Paul Schrader’s more ‘adult’ Hollywood feature film and young Richard Gere panopticon, American Gigolo, released the previous year. Many pictures. Echorich – Yeah, to this day there are some who would lump Adam Ant into the New-Ro trend just because of timing and costuming. album: "Prince Charming" (1981) Scorpios. Prince Charming [2x] Ridicule is nothing to be scared of Submit Corrections. I bought the limited edition 2xCD version with a live disc recorded at the KROQ-FM x-mas show he played at on the tour I saw. Adam Ant - Prince Charming Lyrics. Echorich is thinking about the Latin Funk vector that sprang from the New-Ro movement by the Summer of ’81. Five Guns West. Until while listening to WUSF-FM and their Friday Night New Wave show in the Fall of 1981, I heard the new UK single from the band. Quite so. Having bought this album upon release in 1981, I guess I can’t help but having my current view of it colored by nostalgia. I will give the Ants and Bow Wow Wow credit for thoroughly mixing music and fashion with their individual experiences with McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. $14.95. Every label had one, at least. The track has a repetitive, terrace/school playground chant-like quality to it, like some of the best glam rock singles. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Where KOTWF swam deep in a sea of backed up hype and New Wave Rock Star Bravado, Prince Charming seemed to take itself a bit to seriously. His track has none of the tune or spirit of their much better song. I just love all three. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. All rights reserved. Which, visually at least, it clearly references. At the ball that Cinders/Adam attends, the chanting and the arm-crossed synchronised dancing is wonderful, but also slightly Satanic, in a thrilling Dance of the Vampires sense, despite or perhaps because of the childish panto theme. Wearing something twice was really never even a possibility as you would likely have to deconstruct a past frock to create the new one. Knowing what we know now about the guy, I’m sure his bipolar disorder had a huge impact on his art. His fairy godmother turns up, played by camp icon Diana Dors – on a cloud, surrounded by toned oiled-up topless young black male dancers. – The Lost Hawaiians “Prince Charming” was not been an album I have been clamoring to hear, to put it mildly. They are one track with different lyrics. That show in 1993 was so fantastic, it gave me a lot of interest in what he might do moving forward. But there is a ghost in attendance at this ball. I bought “B-Side Babies” as soon as it came out, and have loved it ever since. #486, 19th September 1981 “Prince Charming” is the ultimate Adam Ant record, but also weirdly redundant. It sounded like generic 90s alt-rock of the worst stripe! The still dreadful title cut following it pretty much killed off any enthusiasm that “Scorpios” had engendered. “Scorpios” fits super-nicely into that scene! By early 1981, the wave of low price new wave label samplers was moving like a freight train. One that eventually culminated (or degenerated, depending on your point of view), via the assimilation/proliferation of glossy magazines, consumerism and advertising, and the increasingly mediated nature of masculinity, in metrosexuality. You could tell McLaren had more sway on Bow Wow Wow as their Pirate/Warrior looks also included leather jackets and biker looks. Adam Ant was the king of 1980s camp, shifting millions of records dressed as a pirate. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming : Tracklist (Vinyl) A1 : Scorpios : A2 : Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios : A3 : Prince Charming : A4 : Five Guns West : A5 : That Voodoo! The ghost of Johnny Depp Future, who was only 18 when this video was made. ‘Stand and Deliver’ was a pitch perfect pop song, noisily celebrating male narcissism and declaring, with wailing warcry, a national uprising against naffness – while holding grown-ups to ransom. The flute was particularly striking to my ears. Classix Nouveau, DD, Japan, Ultravox, Visage… where are these Latin rhythms you speak of? Adam Ant Prince Charming. Scandalously, Adam Ant appeared nowhere in the list. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. It’s the drag sequence in Bowie’s ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ promo, but this time cross-dressing in the clothes of the same gender. Stand And Deliver is absolutely the height of Ant Music, but I also have as soft spot for Ant Rap. And frequently a form of envy. After that, it ends with a whimper. © 2020 marksimpson.com. 20 Years later I was shocked at how wrong it seemed to me. Adam + The Ants: Prince Charming US CD [1981]. That said, speaking objectively once again, Kings of the Wild Frontier is a much stronger record and holds up a lot better. Perhaps this oversight was an unconscious censorship – because otherwise none of the other candidates would have stood a chance. Both of which were of course abhorred by ‘proper’ punks and the ‘serious’ music press. (Check out those tight breeches and the way they reflect the light – gadzooks!). Instead of holding up travellers with a pistol he holds a mirror to their faces. FRIEND OR FOE TOUR US 2021 Select link US Ticket linksUS Ticket links Adam and the Ants: Prince Charming (Video 1981) - IMDb. Change ). The first single, the punchy horn-laden "Stand and Deliver," suggested that they were up to the task, but when Prince Charming appeared in late 1981, it was pretty much universally panned and it still stands as the weakest record from Ant 's … Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Adam And The Ants - Prince Charming at Discogs. $9.97. Song - Prince Charming Band - Adam And The Ants Tabber - Mobscene96 [Intro chord] D [Intro] (A major) N.C. Aaaa- Haaa, aaaah - haa (x2) A G# Aaaa- Haaa, aaaah - haa, Aaaa- Haaa, aaaah - … As Adam mounts the cloudy staircase towards a landing mirror, the revellers freeze and fade away to nothingness and our hero is left alone, with his Orphée-esque reflection – and our gaze. “Prince Charming” was not been an album I have been clamoring to hear, to put it mildly. I had read about Adam + the Ants in the press, and not always the music press. Adam has a career that rivals Duran Duran at their worst for following a triumph with a disaster, but popstars like these know how to keep fans interested with the intermittent conditioning as they dole out albums that run the gamut from successful to wildly inappropriate with mediocrity as the only taboo. Or more likely down to the fact I was born a bit late for punk and so only remembered Adam Ant in his much more successful, much more made-up new romantic ‘dandy highwayman’ phase which twas technically new wave musically, but very much new romantic visually and ideologically. It’s Glam Rap. By then, I even turned the corner on “Ant Rap,” finding it a fascinating cocktail of wildly differing [undoubtedly McLaren inspired] cultural influences mashed up into a unique hybrid. As my cynical ears often did, at that tender age, I dismissed them out of hand and moved on with my young life. But then, unlike most pop singles, it did contain useful fashion advice: During the ‘hanging’ sequence (which was banned by the BBC) accompanied by the divine Georgian gibberish chorus of ‘Qua qua da diddley qua qua da diddley‘, we are regaled with knee-clasping stylised shots of stylised Blitz Kids. It was a perfect pairing of A and non-LP B-side; never bettered, really. In fact, he wields it as a weapon. Some years back I posted a piece called ‘The Prettiest Punk’, about the most fetching three minute wonders. Release date 26th September 2011. But unlike glam rock it doesn’t really exist separate from the panto pop promo. A biography of the metrosexual. Objectively, Prince Charming is a mediocre record, but having listened to it 1000 times in middle school art class (we only had three LPs to play all semester, over and over*) it’s got a lot of nostalgia value for me, and there need be no other justification for listening to a record: it makes me happy, and who cares if it’s actually a crappy record. Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios. This album features bass player Gary Tibbs in place of Kevin Mooney, the bassist on Kings of the Wild Frontier. I’ve seen films like Tom Jones and I grew up going to Saturday morning pictures and seeing all these other influences. Taffy – As implied, I was a teenaged curmudgeon who had to be won over by Adam Ant against my will. Scandalously, Adam Ant appeared nowhere in the list. * = the other two were, of course, A Flock of Seagulls, and something by Deniece Williams or someone of her ilk. It’s a fun live disc and the first disc has a collection of all of the Adam And hits anyone would expect right up to his late period “Manners + Physique” album. I put them all together and Stand And Deliver was just purely grabbing people’s attention and using the whole sort of classical English highwayman feel as a theme.”. Prince Charming traded in much of the “tribal” percussive interest of KOTWF for latin rhythms which were VERY popular among the New Romantics. Nothing major, but certainly fun. Lyrics and guitar tabs for various tracks, various related links. Mark Simpson Interviewed by the Global Press About the Metrosexual, Here Come the Mirror Men: Why the Future is Metrosexual. That Voodoo! CBS records’ foray was the specious in retrospect “Exposed” double album, which had a $2.98 list price to expose the new artists from the CBS roster who were not getting any love at radio. I was resistant to the much-ballyhooed charms of Adam + the Ants in the … All saints should be considered guilty until proven innocent, The book that changed the way the world looks at men. Stand and Deliver was the ultra-catchy hook to lure you in, but I found much of the album quite enjoyable. The album included the band's two number one UK hit singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming" as well as "Ant Rap". Turns out that Ant paid Harris quite a bit of cash for nicking his riff, but IMHO the Harris tune is kind of stunted melodically; Adam took it quite a bit further. Depp credited Keith Richards with inspiring his criminally successful Pirates of the Caribbean ‘Jack Sparrow’ character – but curiously didn’t mention Adam Ant’s dandy highwayman. Adam Ant (born Stuart Goddard) was a hugely popular British singer in the early '80s, commonly associated with Adam and the Ants, a New Wave band most know for the album "Kings Of The Wild Frontier." The “Persuasion” tour of the US that year was a smoking hot show that finally, really convinced me that this guy was legitimate star material. Even Tim Curry’s iconic smackers as pouty Frank ‘n’ Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show seem drier than a Weetabix discovered behind a radiator after Mr Ant’s spangly lusciousness. I’m a very big history fan of certainly the Georgian era and I like the flamboyance and sexuality and bawdiness of the time. $15.99. I was primed for the next album. I even like the title track, for what it is. Prince Charming – Adam Ant’s Pop Apotheosis Some years back I posted a piece called ‘The Prettiest Punk’ , about the most fetching three minute wonders. At his coming out ball. Complete your Adam And The Ants collection. I traded in “Kings” during the Great Vinyl Purge and never replaced it with a CD. Release date 1981. Favorite Jams: 5 Guns West, Prince Charming, Stand And Deliver Lest Favorite: Ant Rap This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. It is quite the most perfect promo ever made – delivering him straight into pop cultural heaven. Adam Ant/Marco Pirroni / Don't you ever, don't you ever / Stop being dandy, Adam + The Ants: Prince Charming US CD [1981] Scorpios; Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios; Prince Charming; 5 Guns West; That Voodoo; Stand And Deliver; Mile High Club; Ant Rap; Mowhok; S.E.X. Format LP. It will always be a bone of contention as to whether Ant inspired Westwood or Westwood created the Ant Look, but Westwood certainly made bank with her Pirate & Native American inspired collections. Spectacularly. Emboldened, I bought the “Antmusic” greatest hits set that came out that year in the UK. ( Log Out /  Then came depression, marriage woes - and an attack on … Catalogue Number 88697942102. The track Vince Taylor made my Top 40 of that year. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), MetroDaddy Speaks! The music papers did a good job of spreading out the scene as well lumping in a lot of groups who really had no affiliation with it. A year or two back, commenter JT played me a cut from the 2013 comeback album [that I had been previously eager to hear] “Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter” and the trainwreck of a cut killed that desire pretty fast! Country UK. He personified more than anyone else (even, dare I say, that other London boy made good, D**** B****) the open secret that British youth cults of glam, punk and new romanticism, although they officially hated each other, were all part of the same aesthetic rebellion. Mr Ant is entirely upfront and personal about his ravenous desire to be desired. In 1993, I got the chance to see Adam Ant, now without a label, hype, or much of anything but Marco Pirroni by his side. AZLyrics. “It’s just stealing people’s attention. This is not a criticism. It certainly charmed the 19 year old Taffy, but who can say how it would be received by my 50-something ears if I first heard it today. 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