Life's What You Make It

A song courtesy of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. They revisited 1986 recently. The peak of the New Wave^‡ era. (Note: I had to switch to the extended mix. It was either that or a distracting video.)

This song is "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk from their 1986 album The Colour of Spring, though it was released as a single in 1985. [Updated to include the Remastered version]

‡ "New Wave" was a marketing term that never really was defined very well. Here is what The New Rolling Stone encyclopedia of rock & roll had to say.

Musically, while they’d seen punk rock get coopted into the meaningless marketing term “new wave,” its energy, attitude, and “do it yourself” ethos had made enough of an impression to be an impor- tant influence on their lifestyles as well as their music. In the U.S. the growth of alternative rock was fueled by the postpunk spread of a nationwide subculture of indie rock, consisting of college radio stations, fanzines, vibrant local club scenes, and grassroots record labels, all of which kept the anti-corporate-rock flame burning.