Today, two videos loaded with gorgeous nostalgia.

Usually the ones who are remembered from any era are the ones onstage, pretty and perfect. Which makes these photos all the more wonderful – not only is there fabulous style galore, but a powerful sense of friendship among misfits. Remember, this is when dark fashion had to be dug out of thrift stores or mail-ordered from the back pages of rock catalogs. The weird kids, especially in small towns and suburban neighborhoods, had to stick together – and looked pretty damn amazing doing so.

If you don’t feel just the tiniest little bit of welling up looking at all these beautifully strange people, you have no soul.

And I would personally love to see a revival of the deathpunk cocktail-lounge maneater aesthetic. These two look like they would be lurking around in the seedier corners of Desperately Seeking Susan. I *covet* those bloomers on the right.