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I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.

First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.

As to the album cover, it somehow didn’t register with my that it was a baby smoking.

Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.

Motley Crue’s Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don’t think that influenced my mental image.

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bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Dude, synthesizers were not new in 1984. Also that was a cover song Motley Crue did. Originally released Brownsville Station in early 70s.

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- Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.
  
  I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.
  
  Sorry to have failed your class professor.
  
  We couldn’t all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.
  
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  - bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Synths were used so much in 70s rock (Moog) that it wasn’t uncommon for albums to have a ‘no synthesizers’ disclaimer.
    
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    Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs
    
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saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
When I was 15, my girlfriend’s mother was appalled that I had no idea who Motley Crue was, but I knew all the other bands she mentioned.

I look back now and imagine it’s like meeting a teenager who knows Green Day and Oasis, but has never heard of Blink 182.

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