I heard this song as a teenager on my FM stereo Walkman in the back seat of the family car from some college station around Hartford, CT while going to pick up my grandparents at the airport who were visiting us. It was around 1982, & I only knew DM from their 1st album, Speak & Spell. Wow! I thought. DM has really changed their sound (harder edged & more industrial), gotten more outspoken about real life...I love DM again! "Everything Counts" summed up the attitude of the '80s: Those Who Die W/the Most Toys Wins. Reagan was the pres. The government was right-wing conservatives w/a "let's have a war" bent, i.e. our fed. gov't sold arms to the wrong side! Like the Iranians, the Contras in El Salvador-all this & Reagan joked, "We will begin bombing in 5 min." :P Kids feared nuclear war in the '80s. But money & status was the ticket to joy, thought social climbers a/k/a Yuppies. I worked in Sales support w/younger mindsets my age. Where did I go wrong, LOL? I was a big DM fan, down to wearing black, w/odd haircuts & Manic Panic-even combat boots and a black trench coat! Call me "AntiYup" because this song predicated how I would become as an free-thinking, non-status-seeking BBWinB (Big Beautiful Woman in Black) in my 20's & 30s.
I heard this song as a teenager on my FM stereo Walkman in the back seat of the family car from some college station around Hartford, CT while going to pick up my grandparents at the airport who were visiting us. It was around 1982, & I only knew DM from their 1st album, Speak & Spell. Wow! I thought. DM has really changed their sound (harder edged & more industrial), gotten more outspoken about real life...I love DM again! "Everything Counts" summed up the attitude of the '80s: Those Who Die W/the Most Toys Wins. Reagan was the pres. The government was right-wing conservatives w/a "let's have a war" bent, i.e. our fed. gov't sold arms to the wrong side! Like the Iranians, the Contras in El Salvador-all this & Reagan joked, "We will begin bombing in 5 min." :P Kids feared nuclear war in the '80s. But money & status was the ticket to joy, thought social climbers a/k/a Yuppies. I worked in Sales support w/younger mindsets my age. Where did I go wrong, LOL? I was a big DM fan, down to wearing black, w/odd haircuts & Manic Panic-even combat boots and a black trench coat! Call me "AntiYup" because this song predicated how I would become as an free-thinking, non-status-seeking BBWinB (Big Beautiful Woman in Black) in my 20's & 30s.