"Dare is an electro-pop milestone, the moment in 1981 when the sound crossed over completely - but it really shouldn’t work. All the individual elements are a bit naff – the twee shiny nursery-rhyme melodies, Oakey’s bizarre voice, his notorious cardboard lyrics … and the thin singing of Sulley and Joanne Catherall – yet the way it all gels is impeccable, curiously thrown together but so very right."