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frustratedpilotWell, the title is over the top, but you get the idea.
I tried to link it, but recently on one of the radio programs I listen to, they interviewed one of the former members of the 1980s band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Last night I downloaded one of the music videos they made from YouTube. I'm not going to bother embedding or linking to it here, for a number of reasons.
I forget whether I loved or hated Sigue Sigue Sputnik when they were "big" in the late 1980s. The two main songs that got play were "21st Century Boy" and "Love Missile F1-11"...and more on the music video channels than radio. "Love Missile" was included in the soundtrack of Ferris Bueller's Day Off--one of the first songs played in the film itself.
They came late to the Punk Party. Yes, they had the bondage leather and the mohawks and the angry snarls, but there was something missing--and something phony--about Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They were an example FOR a punk-rock band, for people who had precious little idea of what a punk-rock band was like. I guess Andy Warhol would have created something like Sigue Sigue Sputnik if he didn't have the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and The Cars to play around with first.
I have no idea how big they were in Britain or Europe, but they were bottom-feeders in America. I'm not sure if any of their stuff broke into the Billboard Top 40 pop charts.
But this isn't meant to be a slam. Just a note of a milestone I went through culturally. Just something I saw again in a way that I could examine it more closely...finding mold marks where I thought I saw the gleam of gold.
FP
I tried to link it, but recently on one of the radio programs I listen to, they interviewed one of the former members of the 1980s band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. Last night I downloaded one of the music videos they made from YouTube. I'm not going to bother embedding or linking to it here, for a number of reasons.
I forget whether I loved or hated Sigue Sigue Sputnik when they were "big" in the late 1980s. The two main songs that got play were "21st Century Boy" and "Love Missile F1-11"...and more on the music video channels than radio. "Love Missile" was included in the soundtrack of Ferris Bueller's Day Off--one of the first songs played in the film itself.
They came late to the Punk Party. Yes, they had the bondage leather and the mohawks and the angry snarls, but there was something missing--and something phony--about Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They were an example FOR a punk-rock band, for people who had precious little idea of what a punk-rock band was like. I guess Andy Warhol would have created something like Sigue Sigue Sputnik if he didn't have the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and The Cars to play around with first.
I have no idea how big they were in Britain or Europe, but they were bottom-feeders in America. I'm not sure if any of their stuff broke into the Billboard Top 40 pop charts.
But this isn't meant to be a slam. Just a note of a milestone I went through culturally. Just something I saw again in a way that I could examine it more closely...finding mold marks where I thought I saw the gleam of gold.
FP
