Love and Rockets - Motorcycle

What this video is

Released in January 1989, 'Motorcycle' arrived as Love and Rockets shed the residual goth-rock shadow of Bauhaus and pushed toward a harder, more commercially minded alternative rock sound on their self-titled fourth album. Described by Louder Sound as a 'sleaze metal romp,' the track sits at a cultural inflection point: the UK post-punk underground colliding with US college radio and MTV's growing appetite for…

Why it matters

A foundational artifact of the late-80s UK-to-US alternative rock crossover, 'Motorcycle' documents Love and Rockets' stylistic pivot from post-punk atmospherics toward hard rock directness. As a lead single from their commercially breakthrough self-titled album, it contextualizes how…