'Rock stars of a certain vintage were wont to write despairing state-of-the-world addresses in the late 80s (...) but Everybody Knows is a cut above, its relentlessly bleak worldview leavened by black humour: “Everybody’s got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died.”'
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“Bursting into 1984, lighting it up like a shooting star, then fading like a meteor’s tail, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s brief, brilliant career was a perfectly executed enactment of pop’s push-and-pull between art and product, radicalism and corporatism, transcendence and expedience.”
I would agree with about half of this list. (thread) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
