Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century Boys - The Best Of (2001)

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, English glam and post-punk band. Formed in 1984. Composition: Tony James (guitar, vocals); Martin Degville (guitar, vocals); Neal X (bass, vocals); Ray Mayhew (drums); Chris Cavanagh (keyboards).
The band was founded by former GENERATION X member Tony James. The fundamental direction of the creativity of this “new wave” group was manifested in a bright “glam” image, fantastic hairstyles and costumes, as well as in postmodern, ironic lyrics and a defiant style of communication with the press. In many ways, the emphasis on the external side of this project was due to the fact that all band members had very poor musical training; James himself has repeatedly stated that SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK is not a musical, but a theatrical and social phenomenon.
After the musicians signed a contract with EMI in 1985, they released their first single, Love Missile F1-11 (early 1986); largely thanks to a well-executed advertising campaign, it reached third place in the British charts. Following it, the debut album of SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK “Flaunt It” was released, and the musicians managed to sell the space between the tracks of the album to various advertisers (an unprecedented case in the history of music)! But despite all these measures, the album flopped - as did the much more serious Dress for Excess (1988), on the cover of which was the inscription: “This time there will be music.” Shortly after this failure, the group disbanded. For a while the musicians disappeared from sight; in 1991, James was briefly a member of the band SISTERS OF MERCY. In the late 1990s (since 1995), on a wave of nostalgia, the group again began to periodically gather for concerts.

“A grotesque embodiment of the vices of the capitalist system, a crooked mirror that reflects all the perverted values of modern Western youth,” - this is how in the mid-80s Soviet propaganda recommended to Komsomol members the group Sigue Sigue Sputnik, which thundered across all capital countries. “Sputnik” are the progenitors of synth-pop, cosmic bad guys, a genetic cross between clones of Ziggy, Iggy, Elvis and a computer. Disco-electro-punk rock on the scale of an unbridled glam masquerade, where kitsch is on the verge of madness. In turn-of-the-century music culture, SSS's work is "alien electro-rock 'n' roll with a robot drummer."