Deep Sea Skiving by Bananarama

Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama's debut album, came out on London Records in March 1983, and it catches the London trio of old friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward on the fly, still riding the buzz from singing on Fun Boy Three's "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" and from their own early hits "Really Saying Something" and "Shy Boy". The charm is all attitude: three voices chanting in near-unison, deadpan and faintly bored, over cheap and cheerful pop rock that never breaks a sweat, with a bouncy "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" at its heart.

It reached number seven in the UK and went silver, a scrappy first chapter for a group that would go on to land 32 Top 50 singles in Britain by 2009.

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