This was literally the commercial back in the 80s.

This takes me back! I remember listening this album on repeat a road trip to Seattle in ‘96 or so. He’s definitely on my bucket list of artists to see live, but he can’t seem to finish a tour.

That’s a perfect description. If you want to check them out, the Wings Of Joy album is a good place to start. Or the EP collection. Their late 90s and 2000s stuff isn’t really to my liking, though.

They’re more shoegaze than anything else, especially in their later albums, but they had a couple of heavier songs like this one early on. They opened for The Cure on the Wish tour in ‘92. I think the singers weird toddler-sounding voice put a lot of people off and they pretty much disappeared by the mid-2000s.

I saw them twice in the 90s. They were a pretty cool live act; very down to earth - I remember a few of the band members hanging out behind the theater after a show smoking cigarettes with the fans.

Yeah, the main riff is kinda dorky but I like the sparser guitar work during the verses.
Tolhurst’s drums carried the whole album though, and it’s probably my favorite album by The Cure. It’s just so bleak!

The octopus is my favorite. Spider is a close second.

Sweet! I’ve seen Numan twice and can’t wait to see him again!

My wardrobe agrees.

You say that as if a goth-off is a bad thing…

As someone born in the 70s, I have to correct you - 1975 was not 48 years ago. 30 maybe. 35, tops.

Love this song. They’ve been playing it on their tour this summer!

Someone’s been taking their Thalasin.

It’s a schooner.

Blasto was my jam. The sound effects were so satisfyingly crunchy! I didn’t have the speech synthesizer either. Nor did I have the tape recorder to save my BASIC programs.

It was either the TI-99/4a or Magnavox Odyssey2.

!connectasong@lemmy.world is pretty fun.

I briefly followed him on Twitter years ago and quickly saw that he was a complete asshole.

Wha?! I used Apollo for years and never knew about this! That would’ve been amazing!

The real ads were the friends we made along the way.