Aphoristical brought this song up to me a year or so ago and I have been waiting to write about it ever since.
Danger Games is a good dose of power pop and it reminds me a little of Squeeze. This song spent a total of 9 weeks on the UK charts peaking at #8 in 1982. The Pinkees career hit the skids amid a dispute between their label Creole Records and then High Street record store giant Our Price.
Guitarist Andy Price said: “People said our record had been hyped into the charts, after that nobody would touch us, Radio One refused to play our follow-up single ‘Holding Me Tight’, and the Pinkees sort of fizzled out.”
The Pinkees have a second life now. Jay Reynolds, son of Pinkees drummer Paul Reynolds, is a Grammy Award winner mixer and he asked his dad why his old band’s songs were not on Spotify.
Creole Records has gone through many ownership changes but now they are owned by BMG’s Sanctuary Records. A deal was made…now their album has been remixed by Jay Reynolds and released again. The Pinkees are not together anymore but Andy Price and Paul Reynolds are in a band together doing cover songs. They never did any Pinkee covers but they might now since their album was released again to the world.
Danger Games
Two lovers part
It’s just the start
Before too long they’ll be at war
Nobody phones their both alone
Just like they were before
Out on a limb more more suffering
It’s just a game that lovers play
Two broken hearts when love departs
It getting worse each day
It loves who love danger game we play
It drags you down throws your heart away
Love people say can, can change the way
They feel its just to late to try
Lights up a fag calls are a drag
A tear drops from her eye
She’s out in the car he’s drunk in the bar
They lead there lives in separate ways
We’re all the same we play the game
It happens every day
Its love who love
Danger game we play It drags you down
Throws your heart away
It love who love danger game we play
It drags you down throws your heart
It love who love danger game we play
It drags you down throws your heart
It’s love who love danger game we play
It drags you down throws your heart
It’s love who love danger game we play
It drags you down throws your heart away
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I’d never heard of them or this song but it’s not bad. You’re right, there is a hint of a Squeeze sound in there, maybe a wee bit of an early Elvis Costello/Joe Jackson tone too. Paul Reynolds is another name that has shown up more than once in music – one of A Flock of Seagulls is also a Paul Reynolds though it appears to be a different one (a guitarist not a drummer too).
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Yea it did hit pretty big over there. When I heard it for the first time I thought it had to do something if pushed…of course I think that of a lot of them lol.
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These guys sound great! Their voices harmonize so well and the music is tight.
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Preferred the live video. Didn’t know the song. I thought they were ok. When and where I grew up a pinkie wasn’t ones little finger!
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I didn’t know that! Yea I wouldn’t have named a band that.
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Nice tune. And good for the band their album has become available again, though I guess in the era of streaming the money it might generate probably only buys them an overpriced cup of coffee at Starbucks!
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LOL… that is probably pushing it!
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Thanks for the shoutout. Reminds me a bit of The Records too, maybe because it’s power-pop with a British accent.
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I agree about The Records comparison…I can see why this one was a hit in the UK…. but I could see that in many that wasn’t…
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