Eighties (song)

"Eighties"
Single by Killing Joke
from the album Night Time
B-side"The Coming Mix"
ReleasedApril 1984
GenrePost-punk
Length3:51
LabelE.G.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Killing Joke singles chronology
"Me or You?"
(1983)
"Eighties"
(1984)
"A New Day"
(1984)
Music video
"Eighties" on YouTube

"Eighties" is the lead single from English post-punk band Killing Joke's fifth studio album, Night Time (1985), produced by Chris Kimsey. The song had been premiered during a three track live performance for UK TV show The Tube in December 1983.[1] Upon its release, the single reached No. 60 in the UK Singles Chart.

A short snippet of "Eighties" was the opening theme to the 2002 sitcom That '80s Show. It was used for a party scene in the 1985 movie Weird Science. It is also used as the theme song for the Investigation Discovery series The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade. It was also used as the music at the closing credits of Season 1, Episode 6, "Bent", of The Lincoln Lawyer.

  1. ^ "The Tube - Killing Joke live on The Tube ( Channel Four UK television)". Youtube. 16 December 1983. Retrieved 2 January 2019.