Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were Top-Siders without socks. And so on. Then this came to be known as the Preppie Look, and every upstart from the suburbs was marching around looking as if he were home from Princeton for the weekend. So how were the real aristocrats to proclaim themselves? By going punk? Slam-dancing at the Harvard Club? As soon as one finds something to be snobbish about, everyone else has got hold of it, and so the central charm of snobbery, the feeling of being something special, vanishes...
Oddity-of-the-month honors go to this low-budget ($400,000) marriage of science fiction and punk. As if herpes and AIDS weren't enough to worry about, we now learn that aliens have come to earth to kill and vaporize horny humans during intercourse. Like Strange Invaders (a much better movie), Liquid Sky says that there is nothing more alien than an earthling circa 1983. The victims here are denizens of New York's underground-zombies of the spirit, existing on quick fixes of drugs and sex-for whom death is just the ultimate high. This...
...music. The phenomenon of Joy Division cannot be overestimated; the music on their seminal, but now largely unlistenable, albums Closer and Unknown Pleasures was probably the most depressing ever put to plastic, but it thrilled a European rock elite looking for depth amidst the backlash of post-punk...
...Little Bit Gentle- and the derivative post-Beatles croonings of male stars like Shinji Tanimura and Motoharu Sano. Overwhehningly domestic in origin (Japanese performers account for about 70% of the record market), the pop world shows little sign of the some times violent creativity now rampant in the post-punk West...
...smartest hand to come down the pike in a long time cliches notwithstanding. The sound that is synthesized here is all their own once you admit that its base is all James Brown and its one of the best sounds around Still somewhat paranoid hardening back to the punk the Heads cut their teeth on it's celebratory no doubt. Byrne didn't learn all about African music for nothing. And it's fun to boot, thanks to drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth's joray into rap in rhythm with Tom Tom Club The Heads what's more...