Prefab Sprout - Appetite

[@fredrikbolms709]

If you're here you know good music. Prefab is one of the best bands ever and you're part of the elite club that knows that.

[@luizfernandosouza3032]

Concordando plenamente!

[@bobsyouruncle5534]

Of course we know it ;)

[@newgolddreamer4657]

One of the best song (AND ALBUM) of ever!!! ❤

[@erictateia5089]

Totally, Friends. I' m an Absolute Music Lover and PREFAB SPROUT is One of My Favourite Band since a long, long Time...

[@ramonvillanueva6836]

Completamente de acuerdo

[@pietrolazzari4690]

There is something special about this music, a unique magic that is that of the 80s. I think Steve McQueen is one of the best made albums of all time

[@oddfitnesstimbrennan560]

Absolutely what an album

[@Jmcg1961]

Yes brilliant album

[@davewilson9738]

Steve McQueen is one of the greatest albums from the 80's.

[@darinj.addison8464]

The album was renamed “Two Wheels Good” in the US and Canada to avoid litigation from the estate of the late actor.

[@alanreber1027]

One of the greatest albums ever! period!!

[@IvanIVTerribile]

Ringrazio Dio di essere nato negli anni 80

[@DebbieTDP]

Io negli anni 60. A 5/7 anni era dura ascoltare questa musica in Italia 😂

[@raymondweiss2707]

Paddy is easily one of, if not the best songwriter of his generation

[@marti2474]

He is the best

[@fritshits65]

my words and meaning exactly

[@alexholets8088]

The music feels like the times. Of course ones age always has a big influence. I am 54 and whenever I listen to Prefab Sprout, it takes back to that exact time.

[@chebeard4220]

It's great how music does that It's the same for me. Getting old really brings home how short life is. Worrying about trivial stuff when we're young when we should just enjoy

[@francospecchia9283]

WHO KNOWS 🤔.. WHY DID I WRITE THE SAME THING.? MAYBE BECAUSE I AM FROM "67 !!!!AH 😜 AHAH 😊 HAHHAH .. LISTENING TO THIS SONG TAKES ME TO THAT SUMMER .OUR YOUTH ..MANY MEMORIES..!!!. SO FAR NOW ... GREETINGS FROM ITALY ✋🇮🇹✋ .. HOWEVER YOUR COMMENTS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND NOSTALGIC ...

[@scottsargent3614]

I am 67, got turned on to them in my mid-30s, they sound so so good, shear beauty.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Yes

[@seanfernandez55]

well put...and accurate👍

[@u2me2us2]

"Wishing she could call him Heartache, but it's not a boy's name" --one of the best lines ever--

[@danharper4972]

Amen to that

[@sergeruffles1380]

no

[@zachary5237]

insanely good 💐

[@DebbieTDP]

Together with "if you steal be Robin Hood 😅❤

[@richardpainter287]

I love Wendy Smith's echoed vocals on this and everything else about it

[@jeffroegner1499]

Definitely the most endearing part of this great tune.❤

[@amandamuzyka3704]

Me 1989 living in Houston. I somehow found you guys. 30 years later, living in Italy and still loving you all.

[@thearlehamilton288]

A tune nearly 40 years old, I first caught it in 1999, 14 years after its release, when I audiotaped 92.7 WLIR-FM's 'Flashback Lunch with Malibu Sue' program. I was 39 years old then, very much in love 💕 with a lovely 25 year old woman. Today, I'm 64, she's 50, we've not contacted each other for the past 7 years (she married and had a son with another), yet 'Appetite' and many songs & artists from the 1980s remind me of my ongoing passionate love❤ for her. My thanks to Prefab Sprout and all you 80s music makers who helped me make it through the 90s. Cori, I wish you all the best in your life, God's blessings and my all out 💕 love for you forever. 'Ta-da!' T. Hamilton, Uniondale, NY 😊

[@wallacegrommet9343]

Loved that radio station back in the 80’s! I travelled to Long Island working as a private chauffeur back then, but lived on the Jersey Shore. Could only hear the station while in the NYC metro area

[@robertcotgrave5920]

I always remember my mother liking this track. She's no longer here. But music has a way of transporting you back to a particular time. She never said why she liked the track so much.

[@lasdcb]

Maybe because of she have good taste then ;)

[@wuddermalin5616]

dear sweet old fruit ... it's in the lyrics

[@d-rg.karamitev9796]

What an amazing gem this song is! The vocals, the lyrics, the music - just a true perfection…Prefab Sprout ❤

[@marcocarioti1869]

Magia. Sensualità. Desiderio. Semplicemente Magnifico.

[@hotelmario510]

Discovered this band by chance when I was 23 and I have loved them ever since. I'm 26 now 😁

[@lasdcb]

1985 .... now... still my favorite rock band ( the only one to be honest ) for ever ...

[@littlenige]

Welcome to the 80's club! A decade of an unbelievable number of awesome bands.

[@EgonRonnie]

I discovered this band when I was 21 and have loved them ever since....I'm 60 now🤣

[@adrianestancikmuller649]

I'm 57. Love PS sine 1985 when I listen to them for the first time. They never become outdated.

[@elgeneralxx]

Your pretty old!

[@sofiak.6574]

You'll get there mate. That's for sure. With half of our experience..sorry 😁

[@patriziapiva3201]

Lo stesso, ho 60 anni ❤

[@markofsaltburn]

The six songs on “Steve McQueen” from “Bonny” through to “Moving the River” are relentlessly brilliant; I feel mugged by genius when I listen to them. One of the best runs in the history of popular music.

[@xebio6]

I agree, the best 6 song run in pop rock ever. If they'd chosen Moving the River to open the album instead of Faron Young, that would be the best whole side ever! Not that I dislike FY or the other tunes on side 2, but those 6 consecutive songs are chef's kiss and set the bar soooo high.

[@KevanRCraft]

I feel mugged by genius is such a great line...

[@samthedystopianrat1945]

seven track run, don't do Horsin Around like that

[@rob.cglasto6478]

Paddy McAloon one of the uk's most underrated song writers, absolute genius in my humble opinion without doubt one of the best singer/songwriters to ever come out of the U K

[@inactiveaccount29]

I agree, even if you don't like the music, his writing is simply genius. Oh and I love them, born in the eighties but I have almost all there records on vinyl :-)

[@dreads44]

One of the best writers in the world!

[@MCshlthead]

lee mavers is greatest uk songwriter imo and hardly anyones heard of him.

[@MilkAndCornbreadd]

In my opinion, this was and is Prefab Sprout's best track out of their whole music catalog. I really wish they had some mainstream success in the U.S.

[@WithoutRemorse12]

Its the song with the most mainstream appealing qualities. They wrote a whole lot of good quality songs.

[@MilkAndCornbreadd]

WithoutRemorse12 Indeed, they did.

[@gcooper642]

I really do think Steve McQueen was their best album of the 80s, Protest Songs a close 2nd

[@MilkAndCornbreadd]

I absolutely agree. 'Steve McQueen' is their best album by far.

[@beckybishop1]

I think “Don’t Sing” and “when love breaks down” are as good! But absolutely love this

[@ryanm7784]

Just discovered Prefab Sprout during quarantine. Been a tremendous pleasure digging through their catalog

[@Supersweetguy]

Whatever country you are, you should have listened to this band back in circa 1985/1986. I heard it over the radio here in the Philippines during those years moving onwards.

[@litgamer6205]

Must admit I never heard of them either until seeing them on the professor of Rock, strange name

[@Brijoolz]

You should check out I Trawl The Megahertz. It’s wonderful.

[@G3toiy]

I 30' than never heard about them too until months ago, heard a beach cover of Car and girls, is very good too. Groove Da Praia - Cars and Girls, very nice too

[@seagreentangerine2065]

Paddy McAloon and Thomas Dolby are genuine creative geniuses ❤

[@IfUfindthisURlost]

I'm glad that in an interview at the time this album came out, Paddy acknowledged how Dolby was so instrumental to the bands overall sound.

[@maurogandvalmxborgh5971]

Anni 80 ......una MAGIA che non tornerà più ma rimarrà INDELEBILMENTE impressa come MEMORIA ad ETERNO frattale della coscienza individuata.... ✋✋✋👑

[@ddellwo]

Such a gorgeous song - loved it when I first heard it and love it now, almost forty years later…..!!!

[@jotteria79]

this is one of the best-written songs of all time, hands down.

[@panterxbeats]

truth

[@miguelmartin1716]

I'm 48 yrs/o , huge 80s music fan and I never heard of Prefab Sprout until last week. Unbelievable! This is soooo good. I haven't heard a bad song yet. When Love Breaks Down, Cars and Girls, The King of RnR, Johnny Johnny....ahead of their time.

[@marcellusm7591]

This song was my anthem during senior year. LOL I still have the album on vinyl.

[@TheSteveRobinson]

Me too...)

[@kellyparis1969]

I remember their song "When Love Breaks Down" from this album "Steve McQueen" back then on MTV, but unfortunately it was the only song I ever heard at that time by them. This was during my junior year of HS. I remember thinking their style was akin to Dream Academy ("Life in a Northern Town"). Only recently did I look up that song on KZbin and sampled other tunes like this one. I remember nearly buying this album back then. Wish I had! I remember it came out around the time of Rush's "Power Windows" album (big fan here).

[@miguelmartin1716]

Kelly Paris I found a used 2007 remastered copy for $5.00, with an additional disc of acoustic versions of SM songs. Absolutely phenomenal! Highly recommended.

[@dionvanalem6996]

It's a very sophisticated band with great songs. They may have been a little too clever for mainstream success however. You are lucky to have found them. Enjoy!

[@drfu6208]

Steve Mc Queen is a timeless masterpiece

[@Benji.O]

I thought I was an expert in the best of late 20th century music… how am I just discovering Prefab Sprout now?? Better late than never - I’m mindblown. I’m still digging into their discography and I can already confidently describe them as one of the best bands of the ‘80s.

[@shabsreaz174]

Prefab sprout is wonderful

[@niceveraert1000]

The way the intro melts into that kinda unorthadox drum groove is just so choice man

[@brewster84067]

Listened to this song after many broken-hearted moments in the 80's. PS was a hidden gem that only a select group of music lovers appreciate. Such a great band.

[@patrickryan5570]

Prefab Sprout - One of UK's finest bands - The sound of cool pop sophistication - I grew up on this music - At times I thought I was in on the world's greatest secret that this band was the greatest on the planet but nobody else knew - In 92 when they brought out their greatest hits then many more started listening however they should have been huge - I was blessed to see them play live.

[@drdrumbeat3010]

I wish II could have been there, lucky you :)

[@lasdcb]

World best band ever for ever ...

[@cripor9469]

Appetite is a masterpiece, but Nancy (let your hair down for me) is beyond this world. Loved, love and I’ll love them forever ❤️

[@simonhodgetts6530]

That is a fabulous song!

[@Aleblu0106]

Che anni meravigliosi,le persone erano così entusiaste e la musica fantastica

[@toriannsteele9262]

I'm 43 and I love prefab sprout since 1985

[@paralentor]

I love reading the comments cause in a high school of Van Halen listeners I truly thought this was my private band in the mid 1980's. Relieved and happy to find so many others felt the same.

[@lemsolaris67]

I guess the school was in US

[@walterxbenjamin]

Nothing wrong with both Prefab Sprout and Van Halen.

[@s1050]

Prefab Sprout were genius but Van Halen were a fun band with an excellent guitarist

[@carloshenriquefigueiredo4891]

I was also a sick rocker, lol, but I enjoyed some pop ballads too, but from this band I only knew the song "Bonny" and I didn't even know who "Prefab Sprout" was, I could have enjoyed this beautiful band more in my youth...

[@stephenclancy7497]

Is that an Andy Dog 'sweet bird of truth' icon i see before me? man after my own heart...i saw some guy in sainsburys last week in a leather jacket sporting that very artwork on the back of it...The the are a top band/person...

[@nichi651]

Questa canzone l'avrò sentita un miliardo di volte. Sempre bellissima.

[@marcomigliaccio8116]

Fa parte della collezione della mia gioventù.Grandi.Hai miei tempi esisteva il Walkman ne ho consumato batterie.

[@wallacegrommet9343]

My local alternative station was a pioneer, WHTG FM Eatontown NJ. They went on the air in 1984 and listeners were in for the best new music for the the next 10 years. Prefab got plenty of airplay!

[@pumpkinracer68]

I am grateful that I was able to spend my youth in the 80s. A great time with great music! I need a time machine!!

[@ashleahjewell4051]

I’m 20 now but I discovered this album when I was 15, such beautiful music. It’s always put me at peace.

[@fairdose]

Paddy McAloon is easily one of the most talented yet overlooked songwriters of all time IMHO, right up there with Neil Finn of Crowded House and Colin and Andy from XTC.

[@BoomerKid1965]

That`s pure 80`music, listen, enjoy and remind.

[@drzazgi666]

probably the best pop song ever

[@sos4550]

Elegant, smart, light, assertive yet unaggressive, that's what this song is

[@alfredrutz7830]

Wow, couldn't find better words to describe this song - thank you from a lifelong PS admirer!

[@andersdemitz-helin1630]

Their absolute masterpiece. A perfect pop-song, of course. Remember the joy of finding 'Steve McQueen' after loving 'From Langley Park' in to pieces. It's a bit like realizing the world doesn't end, or at least to find your flower at home doesn't wither, but recovers after a spur of water.

[@San-zu8qx]

That's a real good analogy

[@kittkamo]

I am 55 from Thailand , become a big fan of prefab sprout since I was at the first year of university till now , the great band ever.

[@kittkamo]

The sound of crying , this track is my favorite .

[@DoughyBoy]

@@kittkamo a great track!

[@waldemardiaz4454]

The Symbol Of Excellence, thanks Prefab Sprout 👍🎶🎶

[@alexjbennett1017]

One man wrote "Appetite" and "Bonny." What range! To listen to them one after the other on the album is humbling.

[@JeffKellySophie]

So amazing. I had this on vinyl in 84 or 85. Music just isn't the same anymore.

[@annisha68]

I was around 16 when this came out. Loved it straight away. Got Steve Mcqueen and played that album over and over again. Being in Australia I didn't hear any more about them but I still have the album and always revisit it.

[@MultiMrMiles]

This song/ and entire album is one of the most underrated and greatest of the 80s...played it for so many years, an emotional piece it was......a long trip to Paris....long hot summers....Paddy is pure genius.. so is Thomas Dolby......80s decade was true living....its weazeltime nowadays....never forget!!

[@puscifer10000]

funny enough, I've started seeing it pop up on "best albums of all time" lists; one of the first albums I bought as a teen and still sounds just as gorgeously perfect now as it did then

[@benchampion3768]

Definitely one of the finest albums of the 80s along with Scritti Polliti’s Cupid and Psyche 85

[@jospinvanraat8730]

IT'S a Fabulous album

[@strofi100]

Don't argue about Prefab being one of the best ever bands or most underated just rejoice that you came to know them xxx

[@SvenMortier]

Paddy is a genuine poet!

[@pjkearney6062]

One of the best bands ever imo the lyrics were simple yet ridiculously brilliant at the same time

[@MB12121]

I love the Prefab Sprout music very much ❤. It is so sad that Paddy is ill now 😢.

[@goateeki]

The greatest English language song ever written.

[@twocents4912]

I just found this band a year ago. Why aren't they talked about more? They better than a lot 80s singers.

[@NoelAbp]

A lot of good music in the 80's early 90's. Best way to go is go with a song on KZbin and see where it take's you..Doesn't always work but when it does well worth it.

[@marcwillem8480]

Best band of mid 80's and the bigining of 90's.. sun in your heart ❤

[@joeymalcolm677]

Music of the spheres! the best love Prefab ❤

[@baklanyc]

"Wishing she could call him Heartache but it's not a boy's name." That's the line that sold me on the Sprouts for life. Hard to believe this song is nearly 30 years old now...

[@mikeburrows5251]

Steve McQueen, great album. Every song strong and brings back memories. Very under rated.

[@feernandodias1]

I LOVE THIS BAND SINCE 80, HUGES FROM BRASIL

[@cristinaminardi-in-reid7841]

Mi ricordo quando la mettevo nel jukebox......anni 80.......

[@MPWEST83]

This is one of those songs that makes me yearn to go back to the 80s...

[@tdirgins]

Man I miss the 80's. This one brings me back every time. Long live WLIR!

[@etherealenigma9688]

There's a Japanese band called Spangle Call Lilli Line who covered this in 2005, and it absolutely is different and good in it's own unique way HIGHLY recommend

[@hannahhunter5215]

im 16 and i just discovered this song. this is the peak of music

[@anyoutubeaccount]

you're only sixteen and already in the recesses of 80s music, keep it up 👍👍

[@NattydreadOldSchool]

I got on the Prefab Sprout train late, although I loved Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, Smiths, Elvis Costello, Style Council in the 80s, I did not hear Prefab til the early 90s, and am bummed about it, as I truly love all of their music, and Paddy's stratospheric skills...

[@danieladams9950]

The perfect pop song. Still gives me thrills after nearly four decades.

[@ruipinto6506]

Aa@@q as@

[@diegodelacruz7946]

Gran y casi olvidado grupo. Canción de lujo.

[@inkpenguy]

It's basically a song about a woman(or man?) who has found that their lust for living, and other things, has produced a child. They're basically saying they should name the child Appetite after their appetite for living. I can appreciate Paddy's clever lyrics, but it's really the production that makes this song so great for me.

[@FitGurl702]

Love you guys! Loyal fan since 1985. Can never get enough.

[@michelepistillo7980]

Comprato appena uscì questo vinile 1984 .. poi comprati tutti i vinili e c.d. dei PREFAB SPROUT .. LA BAND DEI MIEI SOGNI !!!!🎵🎶🎼🎧🎧🎧🎧💯💯💯❤❤❤💯💯❤❤👏👏👏👏👏🎧🎧🎧

[@darrenl]

Hard to believe this was only a minor chart hit in the UK and Australia. What an excellent song. I highly recommend listening to the whole album this track comes from, called "Steve McQueen" - very underrated and underappreciated album from that period.

[@colby2301]

Armado Bellmas: "Today on Ecléctico you're listening to "Appetite" by Prefab Sprout, an English pop band. (Released in 1985.) The song appeared on the album Steve McQueen in the UK and around the world. In the United States, the album's name was changed to Two Wheels Good to avoid legal action by the actor Steve McQueen's estate. "The two types of song I admire are the really catchy ones and the really emotional ones, and this one is the perfect combination of both," begins Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies on The Independent. "[Prefab Sprout singer and songwriter] Paddy McAloon has this lovely knack of injecting his pop songs with emotion and intellect, and 'Appetite' has some great lines. 'Here she is with two small problems, and the best part of the blame / Wishing she could call him Heartache, but it's not a boy's name.' He sings this one pretty straight, he doesn't go from a whisper to a scream as he does in some songs, and you get this great sense of a 'normal guy' using his voice as a tool to express himself. "The lyrics are sufficiently oblique to allow you to interpret them the way you like. I think it's a song about a man with a big libido, but he also has this sense that he's going to mess it all up if he goes after all he desires."

[@stevensimpson2625]

Cracking tune nowt like that now 👍

[@congotronics]

He 's utterly a superior composer

[@robertlane1197]

Those little production flourishes Thomas Dolby added add just a touch more magic to an already magical song. Ugh, this song makes my eyes well it’s so damn good

[@HarryFlowerrs]

Class IS Permanent!❤

[@andreatouhig2816]

Lyrical master..genius. 🤺🤺

[@andreatouhig2816]

So good..(it's almost painful) 👌

[@TheMinimalparty]

i agree

[@GreenshirtMr1023]

I love, love, LOVE his mustache, makes him look like a 2010s country star.

[@Crazyfeline]

Man oh man, nothin cries 80s new wave/alternative than this song. Puts me in a special place when I was a young man, with the world in front if me.

[@louisrichards3160]

crazyfeline it's good to know I'm not alone. ❤️ from Boston

[@giulianapinelli2513]

Me too from Naples!❤

[@bernardbaker6803]

This ain't new wave or alternative mate.It's synth mush - totally lacks soul and guts............

[@bernardbaker6803]

It's NOT new wave OR alternative.Just 80's mush.....

[@elderherrera2238]

So so so under rated and obscure.

[@edgardogregorini4777]

What a band I ❤ Prefab Sprout, best pop band ever

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

So glad I discovered them during my time playing Runescape of all things. I was playing some background 80s playlist of rare songs and this came up during my playthrough. I fell in love with the song and the band ever since.

[@MrMichaellee5353]

Best of album of 1985

[@TB-jy7hi]

Che nostalgia!!!! Bellissima ❤❤❤

[@alfredomaio3009]

one of the best records of the 80’s! beautiful ❤❤❤

[@paulkirby2761]

Never heard this track before. It's got a lot good things for it. 👌

[@pcsp34]

For me, this group is just one of the best in the world. Paddy McAlloon is an extraterrestrial in the music world, a true genius. I met them a long time ago near my home in Montpellier, where Neil Conti, the drummer, has returned to live.

[@juliesaville9122]

Loved them since Steve McQueen-superb album-this is still 1 of my favourite songs it’s sensational

[@sanjaynirmal3785]

i was probably 20 when i listened to cars and girls, was smitten right then n there! stumbled onto this while simply browsing and Dear Lord! the memories that are flooding me right now!, those wonderful 80s!!! what a brilliant time that was! just glad I passed through those golden years, quite blessed indeed!

[@larry-ni5db]

Brings back memories of working in the airline industry and my beautiful girlfriend at my side listening to this. Yes those were the good old days. Great song

[@jeffblack5024]

This is what the cool kids of the 80s were really listening to. Fairlight dates it but the songs will never age.

[@yh-yd8ku]

kitchenware,Cherry Red ,Rough Trade ・・・・The 80's was a great time when many indie labels brought out various artists.

[@larabarbatowolf803]

after finding prefab sprout’s “king of rock and roll” from the show “i am not okay with this” i kept listening and love this song even more (:

[@suzysolidor2028]

Remember this, dancing in saturdays' afternoon discos, 17 years old. Love 80s so much.

[@jeffewonder1083]

I may have not been born when this was out but this is fire (:

[@greggbambu411]

Amazing music. Kinda like steely Dan of the new wave genre. So interesting, heartfelt, smart, classy, and just bloody amazing.

[@twangbarfly]

I think that's the kind of comment they'd be flattered to hear. Marty's a fan of the Dan I believe.

[@srimaddukuri]

Very nice comparison. I agree.

[@brianbautch8904]

On this track they do have somewhat of a Steely Dan feel .

[@shabsreaz174]

Always n forever

[@macrae42]

Only discovered this song recently absolutely cracking haven't stopped playing it