Without the luxury of cable service during college and the collapse of MTV afterward, music of that era was almost exclusively an aural experience, so those streamers I mentioned the other day led me down a rabbit hole with many period treasures like this Anton Corbijn-directed classic (other versions turn off the video for twenty seconds about halfway in), though his promo for the equally memorable B-side is nowhere to be found. Interesting that the genre’s referred to as electronic body music (“commonly abbreviated as EBM”, which is worse), which must also betray the blindness of its participants to historical perspective.
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