Kajagoogoo

[Reverberator]

These guys ROCKED , anyone else here into them?

One of the best bands of the '80's.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u146/reverberator_2007/kajagoogoo_1144751944.jpg

[Nickdfresh]

Their sublime lyrics and catchy riffs were a classic definition of what made 80s techno great. Very underrated, and I'd put their debut album on par with Led Zeppelin I. "Too Shy" was an instant classic of instrumental virtuosity....

They also rocked live:

YouTube - Kajagoogoo "Too Shy" - 1983 (Live At 'PopStars) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuTqiqs5cgg)

They influenced music not only with their great melodies, but also with their vastly sophisticated hair styles that thrilled an entire generation of white break dancers....

[WARF]

Upon hearing Kajagoogoo's biggest hit, "Too Shy," a person could easily dismiss them as another trendy 80's band in the fashion of peers like Duran Duran, ABC, and A Flock of Seagulls... frontman Limahl had good pop sensibilities in their new wave song structures and also displayed a knack for leaning toward contemporary jazz... I think he is one of most underated frontmen ever.... Nick Beggs is a very good bass player, Stuart Neale's keyboards really bring home the jazzy aspect of the group.... Jez Strode is a AWESOME drummer... his playin' style... you may laugh... resembles a young Keith Moon... and Steve Askew has some great, funky riffs that gell with and enhance the other players. Simply put, Kajagoogoo was an underrated band who showed promise on White Feathers.... and most Americans didn't stay around long enough to pick up their sophomore album, Islands, which is unbelievably great.

White Feathers is not my favorite Kajagoogoo album, it boasts great tracks aplenty and, if they sound a bit like Duran Duran.... it's only because the album was produced by keyboardist Nick Rhodes...

Best songs include "Too Shy" (but of course), but mostly because I love Stuart Neale's keyboards (the best keyboardist since brett tuggle) and Steve Askew's rhhthm guitar more than anything.

it's too bad more people didn't give the band a chance after they dumped lead singer Limahl. The followup is 20 times better! Limahl had Steve Perry like pipes... and the swagger of David Lee Roth to boot.... to simply put it... kanjagoogoo fuckin' rocks!

[Andy Taylor]

Kajagoogoo are great and Nick Beggs is an awesome bass player! but 'in the fashion of trendy bands like Duran and ABC' is uncalled for since neither of those bands are new wave. ABC's Beauty Stab sounds like 80s prog. Underrated band.

[LoungeMachine]

Kajagoogoo could kick DD's ass in a bar fight.

:gulp:

[Coyote]

Limahl looks like the long lost twin of one George Lynch...

[alexpgrimes]

Kajagoogoo?!? sounds like something you catch in a vietnamese whorehouse.

[Reverberator]

Limahl looks like the long lost twin of one George Lynch...

That's where George Lynch got his inspiration from....not only the hair but the whole id.ea behind Mr Scary was based on Kajagoogoo's not so well known slapbassathon classic 'The Analog phlid' , Lynch owes a lot to this band and also to many other great British pop bands of the '80's

[hideyoursheep]

Kajagoogoo

:gulp:


Gehzunteit..

[Panamark]

Who's the hot blonde chick front row center ?
Nice hands !

[WARF]

Isn't that Aimee Mann?!?! lol

[Panamark]

Isn't that Aimee Mann?!?! lol
:biggrin:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u146/reverberator_2007/kajagoogoo_1144751944.jpg


She's cute ! I think the naughty boys at the back
are rubbin their weiners into those poor
girls backs ! The chick front row left looks
like she is trying to eject an unwanted insertion !

[WARF]

kanjagoogoo reunited this year! lol

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[Andy Taylor]

That interviewer's accent... blech.

[Golden AWe]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahaAHAHHA

[Andy Taylor]

Beggs is a riot.

[FORD]

Did Kajagoogoo even make an album? I thought they broke up after one single? :confused12:

[Seshmeister]

Studio albums

* 1983 - White Feathers (UK #5, U.S. #38)
* 1984 - Islands (as Kajagoogoo: UK #35) - Extra Play (as Kaja: U.S. #185) [the U.S. album is a shorter, remixed version of the UK release]
* 1985 - Crazy People's Right to Speak (as Kaja)
* 2008 - Gone to the Moon (as Kajagoogoo: free Internet release until February 2009 - soon to be released on CD format too) [recorded by Kajagoogoo without Limahl and Jez Strode]

[edit] Compilations

* 1993 - Too Shy: The Singles and More (also includes five singles and two 12" remixes of Limahl's)
* 1996 - The Best of Kajagoogoo & Limahl
* 1996 - The Very Best of Kajagoogoo (also includes Limahl's "The Never Ending Story" and "Only for Love")
* 2000 - Best of the 80's Kajagoogoo & Limahl
* 2003 - The Very Best of Kajagoogoo & Limahl

[edit] Singles

* 1979 - "Fear Machine" (as Art Nouveau)
* 1983 - "Too Shy" Germany #1; UK #1, Switzerland #2; Sweden #4; Austria #4; Netherlands #5; U.S. #5
* 1983 - "Ooh to Be Ah" (UK #7)
* 1983 - "Hang on Now" (UK #13, U.S. #78).
* 1983 - "Big Apple" (UK #8)
* 1984 - "The Lion's Mouth" (UK #25)
* 1984 - "Turn Your Back On Me" (UK #47)
* 1985 - "Shouldn't Do That" (as Kaja) (UK #63)
* 2007 - "Rocket Boy" (Internet release) (as Kajagoogoo; Beggs, Neale and Askew only)