Living After Midnight - Judas Priest

It's the 80's and Reagan's America embraces the hilarious concept of Yorkshiremen in red and black leather singing about rough sex.

This is metal. Come And Get It. Learn how to swear, chop down skyscrapers with Quo-like riffs and drink cider 'till dawn. One of their albums was called Stained Class for Priest's sake; you have to love 'em.

In the summer of '88 everyone I knew pretended to like heavy metal. That was the summer before the same people pretended to like Sonic Youth. This summer, everyone's been pretending they were into Kylie the first time round.

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Double Yellow Line - The Music Machine

With 60's sex farce guitars and Supremes tamborines, garage rockers The Music Machine earn their rock 'n' roll stripes with a song about minor parking infringements.

Like the 'Priest, The Music Machine were famed for their leather stage outfits...

They'd spend hours in leather shops, sifting through the sheepskin, dismissing tan blouson jackets with F-16 Tomcat Pilot painted on the back, considering the purchase of leather-bound travel backgammon sets and seeking out clothing with the six-pronged, occult-esque Real Leather symbol.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

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