{"id":3370,"date":"2008-04-21T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-04-21T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T19:32:26","slug":"adam-and-the-ants-prince-charming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/adam-and-the-ants-prince-charming\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam and the Ants — Prince Charming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Adam<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes! Let us celebrate these fancy pirates. I am certain if more people would run this look on the street today that the world would be a better place. But it takes real men to wear makeup, puffy shirts, and curtains for pants. And there just aren’t that many left.<\/p>\n

Calling all available backup! Jeff? Kilwag? I know you’re out there. Cover me. I’m going in. This is a great record. That’s despite the frequently self-referential lyrics. The music on Prince Charming<\/em> (1981) is as fresh and weird as the costumes worn by Adam and the Ants. The album opens with the giant-sounding “Scorpios,” complete with brass horns and a house-shaking drum fill near the end that makes me want to yell “Ant Power!” It sounds like the Hawaii 5-0 theme meets salsa music meets pirate rock. Other favorites include “Picasso Visita el Planeta de los Simios” and of course the super hit “Stand and Deliver.” There is also a “hidden” track, after a long pause at the end of the album, called “The Lost Hawaiians.”<\/p>\n

I don’t know where I got this one, but you can see from the wear on the cover that back in the day it was in heavy rotation. Ant music for ant people!<\/p>\n

Etched in the run off margins (can’t etch an MP3):
\nSide 1: HAVE YOU FOUND
\nSide 2: THE LOST HAWAIIANS<\/p>\n

Wikipedia article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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