There was probably not even a single other New Wave band like England's Sigue Sigue Sputnik. With music that incorporated repetitive synth tempos, changes in both music pitch and TV show and movie dialogue which also included sound effects such as gunshots, lasers, and other artsy fartsy electronic noises, Sigue Sigue Sputnik were the friction' bomb. Their music can be described as chunks of turbo power with medicine guitars, sexuality, adult films, robots, Japan, pop culture, advertisements and product placement, and every teen boy and teen girls badass wet dream while high on 500,000,000 pounds of acid, alcohol, and every illegal drug that you can think of! The band consisted of 9 total members with the oddball and somewhat mysterious and enigmatic journalist Magenta DeVine hiding in the seasoned British Japanese teriyaki background of sex, drugs, magazines, automobiles, and American worldly filth, as if the Truman Show was mixed with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jem and the Holograms, and Blade Runner with a boost dash of A Clockwork Orange and Easy Rider combined.
Lead singer Martin Degville wore a goddamn fishnet on his face along with wearing kooky Japanese style kabuki makeup, stockings, and whatever else that God and Jesus Christ might damn well PUH-LEEZE! So did the other members.
Songs included: "Love Missile F1-11", "Dance Everybody", and "21st Century Boy" with "F1-11" and "21st" including movie and tv show soundbits, crazy-ass badass sound effects, highly squeezed out guitars and synths with mega pumping driving acid chip drums!
And yes, my brain literally exploded into a million pieces while making this post. Albums included "Flaunt It" and "Dress For Excess."
They also squeezed why capitalism and Japan were so great.
This band is so damn amazing and you should definitely go and check them out when you can.
I had forgotten about Sigue Sigue Sputnik. In America they were seen as just a curiosity. It seems like in their home country, they were debated fiercely. That one guy in the documentary -- I don't know his name -- still seemed to have it in for them, decades later.
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