I don’t know what it is about the flirting 80s pop did with post-punk, but I love it. Billy Idol just about flies in the face of everything Joy Division/New Order was trying to accomplish with their music, with a tuff-guy haircut and permasneer, strutting without a shirt with an unironic machismo that would have made Ian Curtis blush.
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Record #42: Foghat – Tight Shoes (1980)
This is the only thing I have ever heard about Foghat in my life: in high school, a friend of mine was talking about a bit by a comedian talking about how hypocritical it was that you have to dress up nice to go to church while in all the pictures of Jesus, He looks like the drummer from Foghat.