Eighties (song)
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| Single by Killing Joke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Night Time | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | The Coming Mix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | April 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genre | Post-punk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | E.G. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Eighties" is Killing Joke's first single from their fifth studio album, Night Time. It was originally released in April 1984 by E.G. Records as a 12" and 7" single, produced by Chris Kimsey. The 12" single A-side featured the track "Eighties (Serious Dance Mix)" with "Eighties" and "Eighties (The Coming Mix)" as B-sides. The 7" single exempted the "Serious Dance Mix" and instead, featured "Eighties" as the A-side. Also, the 7" single was sold with a bonus 7" single of "Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)". The single reached No. 60 in the UK Singles Chart. A short re-recording of "Eighties" was the opening theme to the short-lived 2002 Fox sitcom That '80s Show.
The official 1984 music video to "Eighties" was directed by Anthony Van Den Ende, and shows the band performing the song while frontman Jaz Coleman stands in front of a microphone stand which has the U.S. flag draped over it. Behind him the flag of the Soviet Union can be seen. Their performance is intercut with of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev (with the footage deliberately skipping), Anwar Sadat, Pope John Paul II, Ruhollah Khomeini, Konstantin Chernenko and John DeLorean. Other footage shows a rocket being launched, a female body-building contest, a group of punks at a concert in Hammersmith, book burnings, Beatles albums being burned after the "bigger than Jesus" comment and a dog wedding.
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