
For those of you who wondered what it would look like to wake up next to the lead singer of the Spin Doctors on a naked camping trip. Kinda sorry you asked now, aren’t you?
Yeah, that really IS Herve Villachez, otherwise known as Tattoo on Fantasy Island. And yeah, that really IS a giant talking frog. And Wayne Newton as the Devil. And three typefaces that were never used again after 1988. But before you get too excited, I’d bet that well-stacked babe who’s too tall to bronski Tattoo is really Divine or some other dude in drag. Because if it’s one thing you can learn here about the Eighties, it’s that they were really, really fucked up.
Me? Who, me? You want me to explain why you’re wearing African face paint on the cover of an album devoted to the music of Jamaica? I don’t know, Foxy Brown Half-Nip, but I’d say you’re the victim of a graphic designer who couldn’t tell one black culture from the next. Now whaddya say we go roll some spliffs on those plates your friends put in their mouths?
– Those of you who stopped taking piano lessons at the age of 15 should take note of Mr. Wallbank here. And weep. Because even if your hair looks like shit and you pull your pants up to your nipples, you can still bag a popsicle-licking piece of ass, just as long as you know how to play a mean organ. And if the babe drops her head any further, it won’t be Raymond Wallbank who’s “at the organ.”
I honestly don’t remember this being a fashion trend in 1977, and I was a horny teenager back then, so that’s the kind of shit I’d commit to memory. But anyone who writes “Bee Gees,” “Yvonne Elliman” and “10CC” on their ass NEEDS to be severely reprimanded, so I guess she’s just preparing for the inevitable. Consider it Step One.