Post #127096 by vintagegirl on Tue, Nov 23, 2004 2:49 PM

I know what you mean Mick. Kids also took more risks in trying to come up with new and different looks even if they got laughed at in school. Today they're all just sheep buying whatever's in the mall in one-size-fits-all. Also, it's thanks to the 70s punk rockers and subsequently the 80s new wavers that vintage clothing became acceptable to wear as or with modern clothing as part of creating those new looks.

And while Frankie Goes to Hollywood was great I was always sad that ZTT (their label) only had enough money to put on an all-out campaign on one of their bands (Frankie). One of their other main bands (also produced by Trevor Horn) was Propaganda - a German quartet known as the Abba from hell. If you like Frankie, check these guys out too on their album A Secret Wish.

Incidentally, the name for Trevor Horn's label ZTT (short for Zang Tumb Tum) came from a Futurist manifesto that talks about the art of noise (literally, not the band).
http://www.futurism.org.uk/manifestos/manifesto09.htm
Propaganda also had some pretty serious liner notes of the sort too. I love that kind of stuff.