I came across a band called Oingo Boingo. Yeah, it’s really their name. I heard their pure 80s sound in a song about how much the singer likes little girls. Pretty out there. The 80s produced some crazy stuff, i know. The amazing discovery was when i found out i already knew, and use to [...]
In my voyage into modern 80s (and 8-bit) culture for an earlier post i happened to stumble upon this video. It features the perfectly natural encounter between the 8-bit aesthetic and LEGO stop-motion ingenuity. The track is 8-Bit Trip by Rymdreglage: Earlier LEGO music video favourite (ofcourse):
As the decade draws to an end, looking back, you could argue that, culturally, it wasn’t really the 00s that we lived in, but that it was actually more some kind of synthesis of the 00s and the 80s. A retro fad at the beginning of the decade, the infiltration of 80s culture into 00s [...]
