#80s music

[justarocknrollclownxd]

I freaking love this

shirts that go hard: rock n' roll edition

[cigrttsftrsx]

𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩, 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘪𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯' 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Doctor and the Medics (1986)

[heavymetal]

[redmorg]

Danny Elfcat (he probably has rabies)

[shhinigamii]

do you guys still fw me?🥺

[foolsparadise1986]

rockin’on magazine, Mar.1987

(via rockin'on 1987年3月 (1) | Tokyo Dragon Road)

[lovesthe1980s]

Adam Ant

[sauljudgeman]

Here's an Alucard-focused FMV for you all!

(Song: So Alive - Love and Rockets)

[thefugitivesaint]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled content consumption with this additional supplementary content: 'Gates of Steel' from Devo's 1980 album ''Freedom of Choice''. The most popular song from this album is hands down 'Whip It' but what's popular doesn't equate to what's best (the determination of which is generally subjective). I rarely have patience for 'Whip It' whenever I hear it because of its ubiquity in any 'best of the 80s' music rankings (I don't dislike the song, it's just a bit threadbare for me do to overexposure). It's just one of those songs, songs used as a shorthand to define an era. The thing is those cultural mythologies rarely feel authentic and seem like a superficial glaze composed of nostalgia, mass marketing and a truncated rendering of revisionist musicology. 'Whip It' is now a quintessential '80s song', a satirical critique of consumerist culture and American optimism that became an object of the very cultural practices it denounced (how many ads have used 'Whip It' to sell mops or toothbrushes or *insert product here*). American listeners actually thought the song was about masturbation and/or sadomasochism* and it's been proposed as one of the reasons it caught on with listeners (never underestimate the ability of American audiences to miss the point most of the time).

Some music critics have called 'Whip It' the birth of American synth-pop. I don't know about that. I do know that 'Whip It' remains Devo's biggest hit. I also know that it wasn't the song that grabbed my attention nor is it a song I revisit whenever I decide to listen to ''Freedom of Choice". The song that did get its hooks in me was 'Gates of Steel'. It's a song that feels like a blend of the old Dadaist Devo and the new synthpop Devo that ''Freedom of Choice'' gave birth to (which also gave birth to the bright red ziggurat-shaped hats they called “energy domes” that became part of their signature aesthetics). As I often say whenever I write about a song I dig, it just works for me and remains one of my favorite Devo songs. *it should be noted that after the Warner Brothers pushed the single 'Girl U Want' hoping for a hit only to have that push fail, the Florida DJ Kal Rudman (a natively born Philadelphian, a fact I'm adding here unnecessarily) decided 'Whip it' grooved and started playing it regularly. A few months later, 'Whip It' was being played on a bunch of southeastern American radio stations and became an unexpected hit. The satire of the song, as mentioned above, was lost on most listeners and the mistaken sadomasochistic intent became the dominant interpretation. This fact amused Devo who stated that it was further proof of "devolution". They decided to make a video that blatantly fed the popular misinterpretation of their song, a video that played heavily on the nascent days of MTV (which only reinforced the song's popularity and probably helped cement its legacy).

TL;DR - 'Gates of Steel' is a song I suggest you listen to for reasons.

[possible-streetwear]

ANA CURRA

[ssavaart]

Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.

[bbybluemochi]

new OC🎸!

my friend @onzze and I are combining our mutual obsession with 80s classic rock bands with our love for lesbians, so we're creating a fictional band full of them!!!

[out-of-body-xperience]

Dream 80’s nyc penthouse

[a-night-like--this]

Kate Bush having a cigarette on the set of her Experiment IV music video (1986)