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FreakerzBall t1_j1avlex wrote

I did. I don't know that I remember it from 1984, but my school had a fundraiser for it, and we watched it at home on our giant 24" console TV. It was eye-opening to me, and a decade later I studied eco development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I hadn't made that connection until now. Huh. Thank you for that.

The artwork was meant to be confrontational. Extremely so. It was the ME decade, and it was far too easy to focus on the cola wars and peak Spielberg, and ignore the news about tens of millions of humans at risk of starvation. The artists behind the event and album weren't pulling punches.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1awgj8 wrote

It’s a mixed bag.

And Phil Collins should’ve practiced 🤨

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FreakerzBall t1_j1bd5py wrote

F that guy. BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM... BOOM, BOOM.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1bl2rj wrote

It’s like being a piano player and being asked to play a Mozart piano concerto without knowing or looking at the music.

“I’m just gonna wing it. I mean how hard can Mozart be?”

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