"Stand and Deliver"

"Stand and Deliver"

Adam and the Ants

Featured on The Essential Adam Ant

Sony
Album released 1 April 2003, song originally released 27 April 1981

New Wave

B-

This has one of Adam's many memorable music videos, although I wouldn't see it until much later in the decade.  The lyrics were getting not only more coherent but more clever, e.g. "Deep-meaning philosophies, where only show-biz loses."