Eighties
Item
12" Single 45rpm
Identifier:
IA.ITM.002185-->
Description
About the Single - From Wikipedia: "Eighties" is Killing Joke's first single from their fifth studio album, Night Time.... The 12" single A-side featured the track "Eighties (Serious Dance Mix)" with "Eighties" and "Eighties (The Coming Mix)" as B-sides.... The single reached No. 60 in the UK Singles Chart."About the Band - From Discogs: "Seminal postpunk band formed in Notting Hill in 1979 by Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Youth and Paul Ferguson, their dark experimental style provided both an alternative to the contemporary punk scene and the less aggressive sound of many other postpunk bands. Massively influential on a range of different styles of music, they pioneered the industrial metal style."
About the music video for the song - From The Golden Age of Music Video: "Unleashing a treasure chest of button-pushing imagery... “Eighties” presented the case for revolution." And from Wikipedia: The music video "shows the band performing the song while frontman Jaz Coleman stands in front of a microphone stand which has the U.S. flag draped over it. Behind him the flag of the Soviet Union can be seen. Their performance is intercut with stock footage of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev (with the footage deliberately skipping), Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul II, Ruhollah Khomeini, Konstantin Chernenko and John DeLorean. Other footage shows a rocket being launched, a female body-building contest, a group of punks at a concert in Hammersmith, book burnings, Beatles albums being burned after the "bigger than Jesus" comment and a dog wedding."
Related people
Killing Joke (artist)EG Records (publisher)
Polydor Records (distributor)