Sigue Sigue Sputnik verse The Matrix!

Yes I know this started on Facebook but... well... this is what I have to work with this week!

Oh the glory that was, and still is: Sigue Sigue Sputnik! I had forgotten of their existence until these past few days looking at some old videos. Tony James, Martin Degville, Yanna Ya Ya and the others of this odd band that still exists today. These fine folks rose from the ashes of the much icky and ill fated pile of glop of a band named Generation X.

After Billy Idol went on to do whatever it was he thought he was doing, Tony James took some time to brainiac this wonder. While Billy Idol was "dancing with himself." Tony James went over the mountain screaming like a banshee in heat and concocted Sigue Sigue Sputnik!

They are tacky, analog obsessed, wear horrible fashion statements, they confuse Gwar... and here comes the cool part: On their first album "Flaunt It" they sold commercial space between the songs. Absolutely brilliant. Instead of being too cool to stay independent they chose to embrace commercialism and go for it!

They predated cyberpunk and the Matrix stuffs. With them what you see is what you get. No complicated subculture musical ethics. Give us your corporate money and we'll run with it!

So how does this Sigue Sigue Sputnik verse the Matrix stuff go? Well here goes another list:

1. The folks and the stars and all of The Matrix: way too cool for their own good. Sigue Sigue Sputnik: We look like this to make money! Good God they cooked this up on their own. The Matrix had a whole staff to invent them.

Score: Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

2. The heroes in the Matrix: "Oh we are so cool, have big guns, computer effects and scary black leather clothes." Wow, absolutely stunning (sarcasm inserted here.) Now onto Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Case in point: Martin Degville. Any man who can have hair that big, have fishnet on his head and shoot off the guns they do in their videos without cracking a smile!? Now there is tough.

Score: Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

3. The last Matrix movie does come close but falls short. They are way too serious. I mean really, they are fighting corporate and government power on the Internet through the view of "cool" youth culture. Sigue Sigue Sputnik says lets have fun, take their money and run for the hills.

Score: Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

4. When Sigue Sigue Sputnik came out no one thought they would last 20 years and then some! The Matrix in the years to come will be remembered but not with the same continuous output. Can you imagine The Matrix 7? Yes to a small group of folks SSS will remain in our hearts until the nursing home!! Now there's a strange concept.

You surely realize by now that The Matrix stood no chance here. My own writing doomed them. Let's face it with songs like "Love Missile F-111" they were poised form the start to be the king of the ring!

I do like the first Matrix movie but in the name of something to do this morning and out of sheer respect for Sigue Sigue Sputnik I decided to post this.

That is all!