It’s true. Every shoulder pad was larger, every pair of Peter Pan boots was pointier. Everything the early Eighties had going on was in the glint of this band’s eye:
Feel our velvet sheets.
Don’t believe me? Here’s proof:
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Henk and the dance break are my fave.
So the thing is, synth pop in the 80s was kind of awesome. I need to dig up some crap that I fell in love with during my summers in Greece .. just for you.
Yacht rock! Let’s groove to it some night!
I am a) ashamed of the country of my parents’ birth; and b) covetous of those synthesizers.
I thought they were telephone switchboards.
Scariest. Back then, weren’t most of these synth-”rockers” in their 20s, mayyyybe 30s? Neils and Henk look like they could have kids in college. They had no right to do this.
They had no right to elasticize their clothing and yet…