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I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.
First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.
As to the album cover, it somehow didn't register with my that it was a baby smoking.
Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.
Motley Crue's Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don't think that influenced my mental image.
Dude, synthesizers were not new in 1984. Also that was a cover song Motley Crue did. Originally released Brownsville Station in early 70s.
They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.
I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.
Sorry to have failed your class professor.
We couldn't all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.
Synths were used so much in 70s rock (Moog) that it wasn't uncommon for albums to have a 'no synthesizers' disclaimer.
And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs
Irrelevant I guess. I was casually reliving a memory from when I was a child, but there's always got to be a pedant to further solidify my general withdrawal from society because I'm clearly not satisfactorily intelligent enough for it.
When I was 15, my girlfriend's mother was appalled that I had no idea who Motley Crue was, but I knew all the other bands she mentioned.
I look back now and imagine it's like meeting a teenager who knows Green Day and Oasis, but has never heard of Blink 182.