With the 80's as a decade it's hard to generalise as so much happened within those ten years. For example... Computers - 1980 = Sinclair ZX series, 1989 Amiga/Atari ST Music - 1980 = Electronica, racks of computers doing nother, 1989 = Ambient house, Indie, etc. Clothing - 1980 = Awful suits, cheap man-made fibres, 1989 = flared jeans, indie band t-shirts, beginning of grunge... Mobile phones - 1980 = size and weight of a fireproof safe, 1989 = size and weight of a toaster We could go on indefinately - it's almost as if you need to categorise the eighties into two 'sub decades' (pentades?)... -----Original Message----- From: klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of John Milne Sent: 27 October 2005 13:16 To: All bound for Mu-Mu Land. Subject: Re: [KLF] Custom Clothing Hmm ... I suppose. But at the risk of being a bit "pop culture anal", eighties retro to me means things like Marylin Manson covering "Tainted Love", "Donnie Darko" or - yes - "Relax" or "I Shot JR" t-shirts worn in fun pubs. Again, this might be just the UK, but the KLF are more "early nineties" than eighties. Recently there's been lots of bands and musicians from that era (Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, House of Love, Butler and Anderson, the La's - even Cauty working with Paterson again, I suppose) getting back together, mostly to entertain fans who were still in primary school when the eighties were at their full FGTH blast. The high-fashion nineties revival is yet to come - and KLF t-shirts just look very, very old rather than retrochic (imho). At the moment, 1991 is still not trendy ... John
Message Received: Oct 27 2005, 12:41 PM From: TheMgnt@aol.com To: klf@mailman.xmission.com Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] Custom Clothing
from the problem of the band not being remembered by many people under 25, there's the designs they had back in late 80s and early 90s. Fine for that time, but now as dated as
I wouldn't say they're dated. 80s retro t's are kind of popular now (I just picked up a vintage style Devo shirt a few weeks back). And, at least here in the States, you're not going to find many that have heard of the KLF (until reminded of 3am's aha-aha hook). I used to get a lot of compliments on my KLF T speaker logo'd shirt back in day from people who just thought it was a cool design. -paul
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