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Tag: 1980s
The Incomprehensible Appeal of The Cassette
Cassette tapes are having a rise in popularity and it makes no sense at all.
The Final Howls Of Siouxsie And The Banshees
The final four albums from the punk-goth pioneers show a band struggling to find a new direction and shake off the labels that they found reductive.
Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday – The Story Behind A Notorious Album Cover
Behind every Bad Album Cover is a record, often made with sincerity and naivety. Here is the tale behind one of the more infamous.
C-60 Go! The Odd Craze For Magazines On Tape And Disc
The pointless desire to reinvent and complicate the concept of the magazine for 1980s and 1990s hipsters.
Hot Gossip’s Naughty Bits
The rise and fall of British TV’s most notoriously raunchy dance troupe and brief pop music sensations.
The Video Nasties Documentaries
A selection of predictably hysterical and ill-informed British TV documentaries and discussion shows from the height of the Video Nasty moral panic.
The Unremarkable Nature Of The Serial Killer: Exploring Dennis Nilsen’s Autobiography
The book they wanted to ban turns out to be an unsettling look into the mind of a murderer – and just how ordinary he actually was.
Flirting With Flexi-Sex
From the days before phone sex and cam girls, the pioneering efforts to bring aural sex to adult magazine readers.
It Takes All Kinds Of Critters To Make Farmer Vincent Fritters – Checking Into Motel Hell
One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
The Naked World Of Ben & Katie
The Daily Star’s George & Lynne copycats who never quite hit the big time