. . . . . time for an 80s Analepsis bringing you back to the songs of the 80s that were cool. OK, maybe they were not totally cool, but what is important is that you thought you were cool listening to these songs. Each song below cut a permanent niche into 80s [...]
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80s Analepsis: A Flock of Seagulls
. . . . . time for an 80s Analepsis bringing you back to the start of the 80s and the start of 80s new wave hair. Out of Liverpool, A Flock of Seagulls set the trend for ridiculous 80s haircuts that burned its image in our brains as we had to keep seeing [...]
Killing Joke . . . livin’ in the Eighties
Before Nirvana, NIN, Ministry, etc. there was Killing Joke. Classified as an ‘English post-rock punk band’ (ya I am not sure what that means either), this band is always an in your face, raw sounding, punk rock band.
I used to listen to their song “Eighties” over and over as it was the first song [...]
Honeycut - More than a Squeeze Shadow
I have never seen the comparison, but to me Honeycut sounds just like the supercool 80’s band Squeeze (”Tempted”, “Black Coffee in Bed”, and “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)”). It’s all about laid back funk that makes you feel like you should be wearing your shades and holding a nice glass of irish wiskey (on [...]
The Dears - not The Smiths
The first time I heard “Lost in the Plot” by The Dears, I was almost certain they were doing a cover of something from The Smiths that I had heard back in the 80’s. After several Google searches, I was baffled. It turns out that the Dears can sound a lot like The [...]