Probably 90% of my favourite music comes from the 80’s, from 80-89, one could argue it is nostalgia but personally I think there is more to it than that. I think that for various reasons including technology and the economic boom in the late 80’s we saw a lot of innovation and easier access to music making, the latter spawning at least 3 culturally significant DIY musical movements which shaped the future:
Punk/New Wave/New Romantic
Hip hop/Electro
House/Techno
The 80s (and into the 90s) … when you couldn’t stop looking at a cover artwork, trying to figure out what’s going on. (Instead of look once and forget forever).
YESSSS! SO good!! That Sepultura art is fantastic. A little dark, but so is modernity in many ways. I love the textures.
Wow, Chaos AD was an album? This is going way “full circle”
“Chaos AD” was an early Squarepusher side project with some very grungy experimental techno!
I would post some links here but it was not 80s, so that’ll get messy.
I left the 6th Form at school to form a New Romantic Group in 80/81. I was spat at punched and threatened most days for cross dressing and wearing make up. The following year i cut my hair wore a suit and joined the corporate world. Heaven 17 called it the Luxury Gap. And thats my best kept secret.
Listening to this in hindsight I’m gonna guess that this influenced the sound of Pretty Hate Machine quite heavily. CV was always a class act. However the bane of 80s ‘mainstream’ Industrial was this it was always cheesy AF. I think that changed with Pretty Hate Machine.
