Wednesday, August 20, 2008

This is the Day





Hard to believe this song came out in 1984. I was a wee lad at CCS discovering this new "alternative music". "This is the Day" by The The stands out as one of those songs of that era. It was off of the "Soul Mining" album (vinyl!). Up until just a few years ago I had never seen the video until Youtube. Looking back at it now- the special effects were laughable. But back then MTV was still in its infancy, cable TV wasn't widely distributed, the lead singer Matt Johnson had a full head of hair, and things were so much simpler or at least it seemed like it for those of us.

Now years later, people get a chance to hear this song once more on the M&M commercials.

4 comments:

Carolyn said...

while srounging through some boxes in the basement I cam across some old (intact) Letraset sheets......! Fonts AND halftones!!!

DMBoyleDesign said...

Chow, this song was made when I was 1 year old. Think about that.

Dave Chow Illustrations said...

Yeah Boyle, you were a wee little pup back then weren'tcha?

Unknown said...

nice blog, nice song...i like it