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** The song also features the line "I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a reference to Ronald Reagan doing advertisements for that company in his pre-politics days. Creator/AndyWarhol would do art prints on the subject at the time, but today most people would not remember that part of Reagan's career.
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** Their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" is also highly praised, even being considered by some to be better than the original. The song features a ripping bass solo replacing the original's saxophone solo, and is also played with a faster, punkier energy more reminiscent of New Wave bands from the era. When throwing Holly Johnson's unique voice and flamboyant attitude into the mix, you get a cover that's really special.
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** Their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" is also highly praised, even being considered by some to be better than the original. The song features a ripping bass solo replacing the original's saxophone solo, and is also played with a faster, punkier energy more reminiscent of New Wave bands from the era. When throwing Then when you throw in Holly Johnson's unique voice and flamboyant attitude into the mix, you get a cover that's really special.
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** Their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" is also highly praised, even being considered by some to be better than the original. The song features a ripping bass solo replacing the original's saxophone solo, and is also played with a faster, punkier energy more reminiscent of New Wave bands from the era. When throwing Holly Johnson's unique voice and flamboyant attitude, you get a cover that's really special.
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** Their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" is also highly praised, even being considered by some to be better than the original. The song features a ripping bass solo replacing the original's saxophone solo, and is also played with a faster, punkier energy more reminiscent of New Wave bands from the era. When throwing Holly Johnson's unique voice and flamboyant attitude, attitude into the mix, you get a cover that's really special.
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** Their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" is also highly praised, even being considered by some to be better than the original. The song features a ripping bass solo replacing the original's saxophone solo, and is also played with a faster, punkier energy more reminiscent of New Wave bands from the era. When throwing Holly Johnson's unique voice and flamboyant attitude, you get a cover that's really special.
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One Hit Wonder is a trivia trope.
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* GeniusBonus: The rare Hibakusha remix of "Two Tribes", found on a limited edition release housed in a company sleeve and the Japanese "BANG!" remix EP, was named after the Japanese term for the victims of the atomic tests on Japan in the 40s.
** "Krisco Kisses" is named after a gay slang term for anal fisting that used Crisco as lubricant.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Ironically, the band had a huge fanbase in Germany, with two songs that never made it to #1 in the UK ("Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and "Rage Hard") reaching #1 there.
** "Krisco Kisses" is named after a gay slang term for anal fisting that used Crisco as lubricant.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Ironically, the band had a huge fanbase in Germany, with two songs that never made it to #1 in the UK ("Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and "Rage Hard") reaching #1 there.
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** The rare Hibakusha remix of "Two Tribes", found on a limited edition release housed in a company sleeve and the Japanese "BANG!" remix EP, was named after the Japanese term for the victims of theatomic tests on Japan in the 40s.
UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki.
** "Krisco Kisses" is named after a gay slang term for analfisting that fisting, which typically used Crisco as lubricant.
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** Fitting the trope's name, the band had a huge fanbase in Germany, with two songs that never made it to #1 in the UK ("Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and "Rage Hard") reaching #1 there.
** The rare Hibakusha remix of "Two Tribes", found on a limited edition release housed in a company sleeve and the Japanese "BANG!" remix EP, was named after the Japanese term for the victims of the
** "Krisco Kisses" is named after a gay slang term for anal
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** Fitting the trope's name, the band had a huge fanbase in Germany, with two songs that never made it to #1 in the UK ("Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and "Rage Hard") reaching #1 there.
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* OneHitWonder: In the United States, Frankie is only known for "Relax". They had five very successful singles in Europe, with "Two Tribes" being the highest selling single of 1984 in Britain.
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* ToughActToFollow: ''Welcome To The Pleasuredome'', and indeed their phenomenal success in 1984 in general. Just about anything would have been a disappointment after that. Case in point: in 1985, when their fourth single debuted at #2 on the chart instead of #1, some critics began to jump off of the Frankie bandwagon.
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* ToughActToFollow: ''Welcome To The to the Pleasuredome'', and indeed their phenomenal success in 1984 in general. Just about anything would have been a disappointment after that. Case in point: in 1985, when their fourth single debuted at #2 on the chart instead of #1, some critics began to jump off of the Frankie bandwagon.
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* CoveredUp: "The Power of Love" was covered by Gabrielle Aplin for a [[UsefulNotes/BritishBusinesses John Lewis]] advert in 2012; said cover reached number 1 in the charts 28 years after FGTH's version did.
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Moving trivia thing to trivia.
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Wish (The Lads Were Here)" is not "Wish You Were Here", although a lot of magazines from their active period [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer used to make this error]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Want to know what ''Liverpool'' would have sounded like had Trevor Horn produced it? All of the remixes of "Warriors of the Wasteland" were produced by Horn, and they definitely sit alongside the ''Pleasuredome'' material. Ditto his additional production on the "Rage Hard" extended mixes.
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* AmericansHateTingle: During their height of popularity, Americans regularly saw them as "that band from Film/BodyDouble", resulting in people buying Pleasuredome just for "Relax", Frankie doing a successful tour and "Relax" being rush-reissued, reaching #10 on the charts.
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**Following the release and success of ''Film/BodyDouble'', the band became pretty popular in America. They toured America following the release of "Welcome To The Pleasuredome", and Island reissued "Relax" in response to their new-found success, resulting in a successful Top 10 hit.
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* ArchivePanic: ZTT's penchant for releasing a myriad of edits for each single, often across every format available at the time, causes this. The 2012 compilation ''Sex Mix'' was the first time many of their cassette singles were digitized. All of their singles were finally re-issued in their original tracklists by record label Salvo between 2012 and 2014, which was great…until the ''Inside the Pleasuredome'' box set came out with evern more unreleased mixes.
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* ArchivePanic: ZTT's penchant for releasing a myriad of edits for each single, often across every format available at the time, causes this. The 2012 compilation ''Sex Mix'' was the first time many of their cassette singles were digitized. All of their singles were finally re-issued in their original tracklists by record label Salvo between 2012 and 2014, which was great…until the ''Inside the Pleasuredome'' box set came out with evern even more unreleased mixes.
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* AmericansHateTingle: During their height of popularity, Americans regularly saw them as "that band from Film/BodyDouble" or (nowadays) as an OneHitWonder for "Relax", Film/BodyDouble", resulting in people buying Pleasuredome just for "Relax", leading into "Relax" being rush-reissued and reaching #10 on the charts.
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* AmericansHateTingle: During their height of popularity, Americans regularly saw them as "that band from Film/BodyDouble" or (nowadays) as an OneHitWonder for "Relax", resulting in people buying Pleasuredome just for "Relax", leading into "Relax" being rush-reissued and reaching #10 on the charts.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Ironically, the band had a huge fanbase in Germany, with two songs that never made it to #1 in the UK ("Welcome To The Pleasuredome" and "Rage Hard") reaching #1 there.
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* MemeticMutation: "FRANKIE SAY RELAX DON'T DO IT" and "FRANKIE SAY WAR HIDE YOURSELF!" T-shirts were popular around the height of the band's popularity.
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* GeniusBonus: The rare Hibakusha remix of "Two Tribes", found on Japanese pressings, was named after the Japanese term for the victims of the atomic tests on Japan in the 40s.
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* MemeticMutation: "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" T-shirts were popular around the height of the band's popularity.
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