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November 30th, 2006 at 9:09 pm by Cranky

We haven’t had much fun with videos lately.

This one was pretty good. I think I bought the single the weekend it came out.

Do you kids like the Teutonic pop?

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42 Responses to “More 80s Videos”

Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
November 30th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
TikiPundit Says:
November 30th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Gawd. Worst example of Europop overexuberance ever. Mozart as proto-techno icon. How arrogant, or desperate, were they?

Now, 99 Luftballons (99 Red Baloons in some places) was a SONG. Nina was hot back in the day. But then she dated the drummer and then had some personal tragedy and the last time I saw her in person she was warming up the crowd at a German soccer match, and getting booed by the liquored-up Teutonic rednecks. She had also lost her hair to a Marine Corps boot camp barber.
Billy Says:
November 30th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
AAAAAAA RRRRRRRRR GGGGGGGGGH
HHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Cranky, I was so excited when you posted an 80’s music video.

My friends and I have a musical “Pantheon of Crap”. “Rock Me Amadeus” has its own wing and has been voted by us as the worst song in the history of music.

(Puttin’ on the Ritz by Taco was 2nd)

Since we are along the lines of ‘82-’83 vids (Der Kommissar and 99 Red Balloons), may I offer this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA
annika Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:28 am
okay that was really gay
Cranky Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 8:28 am
Okay. It looks like I stand alone on “Amadaus”…

But how could I forget Peter Schilling? I think I remember an MTV Music News where he swore he never even heard of David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

Major Tom just somehow became the all purpose astronaut as metaphor for alienation.
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 11:13 am
Cranky, I don’t think you “forgot” Peter Schilling, it’s just that compared to brother Curt’s illustrious career, he sometimes get’s lost in the background.

Of course that often happens with those 1-hit wonders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVaOhT59uc

I went out and bought this album immediately (still have it) after the review by our high school newspaper’s music critic. He predicted greatness for Dexy & Co…

The rest of the album sucked, but the liner notes were cool…
dsmith Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 11:20 am
Billy, you shit! You just had to bring up Taco’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz”? I had almost scrubbed my brain clean of that mess, and you had to barf all those memories back up for me!

Our Senior prom was a “Puttin’ on the Ritz” theme and they played that damn song over and over. The only redeeming moment of that entire night was the principal (who was a gay man that wore pink cowboy boots) throwing out our entire gang for smoking, so we could finally get out hell out of there.

It’s gonna take another 20 years to forget it again.

Thanks Billy!
Swamp Rabbit Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Wow,, I’m kinda’ disappointed in all of you. There was nothing in the 80’s beyond the Thunder from Down Under. For a brief moment Judas Priest, faded through there, but come on, really. Oh and what is a Senior Prom and why would anyone go?
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:01 pm
OK…where the hell is Sharon? No 80’s Tubing is complete without her input…

Sorry dsmith. I was going to torment you by posting that hideous video, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. That song was just hell…

Another song I couldn’t stand but was so popular for some reason was this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XWbW3_vzF7Y

How many different ways can you say GAY?!?!?!

But the freakin’ radio wouldn’t stop playing it my senior year in High School…
Gordon Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Billy,

Like a gay sandpaper salesman, Dexy’s Midnight Runners just rubbed me the wrong way.

They just seemed a bit gimmicky with the blue overalls and all. Not a bad song, mind you.

The rest of the album sucked, but the liner notes were cool…

Exactly the same reaction I had when I bought this one.

ps Do you access to YT at the office again?
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Swampy, what the hell are you talking about? Surely you know about Cranky’s Jones for 80’s MTV-type music…and the memories it brings back for all of us.

And although I am sure you are referring to AC/DC, perhaps you are either too young or too old to remember this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlPZ1Z1sEfc

All your Aussie 80’s bands are belong to us…
Cranky Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Funny thing is Swampy, I didn’t like much 80s music in the 80s if it wasn’t one of the following; Ozzy, Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Judas Priest.

Other than that, I liked the 60s and 70s Rock ‘n Roll.
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Cranky,

YES! It turns out that a few of our IT guys are from Spain, so I simply changed my email signature to “Ahmed Mohammed” and began to lament all of the restrictions on the access to my favorite sites. Suddenly, full-access restored.

But I’m going from home today.

The Human League. Got those albums too! Yes, the guys were, uh…GAY…but the chicks were HAWT! So I LOVED their videos. Even their political ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZrcjp7Kelw
Cranky Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Oh BTW, thanks to YouTube, FireFox, LissaKay and Riva encoder, I am now able to finally collect the music videos that I’ve wanted for 25 years.

And yes, I would have purchased them legally if they were available.
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Cranky,

Just watched the full Fascination video again…which reminds me…

Almost every girl at my high school dances would dance almost exactly like that.

And watching the MAW video, I am reminded that I once pulled a muscle trying to replicate that dance (after about 8 beers one night during an MTV bender).
Cranky Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:39 pm
I kinda liked the brunette. She had that Martha Quinn mouseiness to her. Not like that Nina Blackwood slut!
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Here are all your vj’s…LOVE Marth’s red tights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIr6V41Xm2k

I loved Nina’s voice, but that hair just screamed “dragon lady”. She intimidated me. In my MTV fantasies, Nina would be the mistaken one-night stand.

Martha would be the one I wanted to date and then marry.
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 1:54 pm
One more thing about Martha Quinn…and this isn’t so nice.

San Diego has a local rock performer/DJ named Mojo Nixon. He penned the song “Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin”…which contained the line “I’d like to stuff Martha Quinn’s Muff”…

It got some regular airplay in the mid 80s on our renegade alternative station 91X. Personally, I was outraged. As far as was concerned, Martha would forever be virginal until her and I were married.
Sharon Cobb Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
If I had known I would be having chesse for lunch, I wouldn’t have had turkey. Not kosher.
Oy…where to begin.
Ok. If I have to listen to Falco, I’ll go with Vienna Calling. I *allow* for Rock Me Amadeus because Falco, (real name Johann Holsel) was from Vienna, Austria and has some history there with Wolfie Amadaeus.

99 Luftballons. I get this clear image of my friends and me singing this song loudly and like this:
da da da da da da dadadadadada da da dadadad dadadda CAPTAIN KIRK da dadda da da da…

Human League! I was working as a waitress as a cocktail bar, that much is true… HoooWaaa.
Fun, eltro-pop. If you recall, they had 3 additional top 40 hits, including another #1 with “Human.”

I’ll stay away from Ozzie,AC/DC, et.al. They’re such guy bands. I don’t get them–never did.

Dexy’s Midnight Runners Come On Eileen is great British pop in the same vein as Maddness and Our House, without the ska but with the punk.

And speaking of punk, where are The Sex Pistols in all of this? Ramones, anyone?

The end of 1980 brought us Devo! Whip it, good! Of course 1980 brought us Another Birck In The Wall (Part 2) Does it get any better than that???

But for pure cheese and hotness, I’ll go with Jessie’s Girl, Rick Springfield cause I wanted to sleep with him. One of the best-worst lines ever, “You know I feel so dirty when they start talkin cute I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot.”
Heh! Love it.
dsmith Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Billy, doood, don’t hate on the Soft Cell. Granted, the guys that like it were gay, but the girls that liked it were just stupid teenage girls.

Why not some GOOD videos?

Rock

or

Better Rock

even this:

Wuss

Just kidding on that last one. LOL!
Swamp Rabbit Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:17 pm
#12. Cranky,,,

That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
dsmith Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Swamp, you know the prom. The place where all the conformists went after spending parental capital on cheap taffeta dresses and Milwuakees Best, to lose thier virginity in the backseat of a 1979 Datsun 280Z?
Swamp Rabbit Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Oh,, almost forgot,

#11. Billy,

Thunder From Down Under = AC/DC

I’m 42, not too old, not too young but just right. Can’t YT here so I’m not sure what your talking about (link wise?).
Cranky Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:33 pm
She intimidated me. In my MTV fantasies, Nina would be the mistaken one-night stand.

Martha would be the one I wanted to date and then marry.

Billy, you and I are much alike. Lemme guess, Mary Ann over Ginger, Thema over Daphne?

Swampy, Saw AC/DC three times. All post Bon Scott.
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December 1st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
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Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:42 pm
A lot to chew on. I figger Cranky is actually WORKING at work, or he’d have jumped in by now.

I always preferred the english version of Nena’s 99 Red Balloons. But that wasn’t my favorite Nena song, this was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a811hxShHm0

I never heard it on the radio, though I thought she was HAWT in an Olivia Newton John sort of way. Seeing this song on MTV made me buy the album and I wore the groove out on this track.

One of my favorite “electropop” groups was this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vPPDFUlJ70

Yes, I could have gone with the easy choice of “Blinded”…especially considering that AMAZINGLYSMOKINGHOT Miss Yakamoto. But I own this album and this song has a reminder of what bad ’80s white boy dancing was like:

“Semaphore out on the floor…it isn’t any rapattack”..

This album begins with a deep voice (presumably from a therapist) “SO…tell me about your childhood”…

AC/DC? Simply the best music to put on when the high school party was about to get out of control and just before the cops showed up (happened at least TWICE in high school):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTSl8e8MeTk&mode=related&search=

Butt-head had the best observation about AC/DC…why does it look like Brian Johnson is about to take a dump when he sings?

Sharon, you mentioned Madness, which brings us to the English Beat, which leads me to General Public and one of my favorite songs of the 80’s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQ-89PkEOI

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a full version of this video, just a truncated one.

I believe dsmith hooked you up with your punk. I wasn’t much of a punk fan…I just didn’t have that hard edge (though my younger brother did).

Sharon, hook us up so we don’t need to go digging:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LhDCXXvK0QE

A GREAT video! Though I like this one too:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=__GK9srwQcQ

Devo did the soundtrack for an absolutely horrible mid-80s movie starring an SNL legend. Name that movie…(first one to do so wins a Carne Asada burrito from El Indio restaurant).

I’ll finish up with Sharon’s comment and dsmith later…
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Cranky, you are dead on. Though I am actually partial to blondes who are petite and demure…but the industry seems to always tramp out the blondes.

Along the lines of Martha Quinn, I was also in love with this babe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZF-ym7tHX8

So Cranky, if you steal Martha Quinn, I’ll take Jane. Except she’s a little psycho.
Swamp Rabbit Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 3:47 pm
#24. Cranky,

I was but a wee nipper when I saw AC/DC at the Martin TN (UTM) field house. Highway to Hell w/Bon. Very cool. I’ve since seen them three or four times (back in black, fly on the wall, blow up your video), in Memphis. I’m gonna go see ‘em again if/when they come around this area.

#22. dsmith

Oh,, yeah, come to think of it I have heard of such gatherings, just never attended

P.S. Mary Ann for sure!
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Continuing with my 45 cents:

Another Brick in the Wall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhM-s38DOBE

I was a freshman geek riding the bus when The Wall came out. Our bus driver was cool…when Another Brick in the Wall came on the radio he’d crank it and our entire bus would sing along…”We don’t need no education…”

An admission. I’ve never seen The Wall. The movie. It used to play at Saturday Night Midnight movies in rotation with Rocky Horror and Heavy Metal, but my friends would get stoned before seeing it and I was (and still am) anti-marijuana. So I wouldn’t go.

Rick Springfield?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhM-s38DOBE

Another admission. I’m a fan. Not of the soap, but of the music. Yeah, I know…for a guy that’s kind of wussy, but I love his stuff. The same kind of music as this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-QJH_g82BdI

I saw them four times in the summer of ‘86 as they toured around the Wash. DC area. They opened for The Starship and I remember that 1/3rd of the audience would leave after they played. I was scamming on 17 and 18 year old girls and I remember taking Kelly R. to this concert and making out with her all the way back from the show in the back of Doug B.’s Honda Prelude.

Dsmith…who says Winger is “wuss”? Oh yeah…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_(Beavis_and_Butt-Head)

Swampy, we are about the same age. I rocked too, but here in SoCal, alternative and MTV were HUGE in high school. All bring fond memories.

I could do this all day. And probably would…but basketball practice and then a trip to LA awaits. I got another hour or so to tube…and Cranky, thanks! I’ll have to look you up on my next trip out to the right coast…
Sharon Cobb Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Oh Billy you’re so fine you’re so fine you blow my mind hey Billy! (talk about 80s cheez–Mickey–Toni Basil)

I just checked your tube videos. The Outfield! I forgot about them!

You haven’t seen The Wall????!!!???!! Oh, must rent. Don’t be too hash..ur…harsh on your friend who liked to roll one and watch it. Uh, I wouldn’t know from personal experience, but I understand it is an immensely enjoyable experience to watch The Wall while high.

Basketball practice? Do you coach? Hey…I picked the right song if you do! (Toni Basil cheerleading song)
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Yes Sharon…I coach high school basketball. High School GIRLS basketball.

Which enlightens me to the fact that I NEVER want to be the father of a teenage girl.

Here’s that horrible Toni Basil video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w5wfOLPeoc

Did you know that Toni Basil did this in espanol as well? I got it on one of my Living in Oblivion CDs…

Which is a PHENOMENAL CD collection. It has this classic MTV song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlzEpRmJgv4

I tried to ask a girl out like this guy did. I got slapped…
Yiddish Steel Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
That was so f@##!%^& gay! What next, Cranky?!

Army Of Lovers?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXL1Upm130
Billy Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Gawsh, I wish I could stick around this weekend to see where this goes.

Off to the Rose Bowl to watch UCLA ruin USC’s title hopes.

I’ll be back Sat. night or Sunday to see where this discussion went. Looking for the answer to comment #25 (see end of it)

Cranky, feel free to open up an 80’s Tubing discussion ANYTIME!

Leaving y’all with this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQqnZyj2jaM
annika Says:
December 1st, 2006 at 11:48 pm
On a completely unrelated note, check out the latest news from Fiji!

http://annika.mu.nu/archives/207061.html
Sharon Cobb Says:
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:27 am
Billy,
You want to know who else coached high school GIRLS basketball? A fella named Don Haskins who was the first coach to start an all black team in the NCAA championship game with the Texas Miners (now UTEP) against Kentucky–and some nobody players, like, uh, Pat Riley.
That girls basketball coach won the NCAA in 1966 against all odds. (See–the last sentence relates to an 80s song-Against All Odds-Phil Collins)
krafty Says:
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:17 am
“Pocket Calculator” by Kraftwerk, anyone?
Cranky Says:
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:35 am
Yid, sorry we don’t do gag videos. What was that? That one guy made Prince look like Terminator.

annika, how could you take world events so flippantly?

krafty – Seems like I have a long an meandering story for every song… but. I was about 13 years old and that song came on to a lite rock station that my bedside clock radio was set to.

I loved that song. The next day, I came home from school and sat by the radio for hours waiting for it to come on again. Turns out that the song was definitely not on their rotation but the DJ played it for fun.

Wasted an entire day and didn’t hear the song again until Dr. Demento played it years later.

So yeah, Kraftwerk!
Billy Says:
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:22 am
Hey Yiddish…

WAS THAT SWEET OR WHAT?!?!?!?!?

Just got back from the Rose Bowl where we left a bunch of used Trojans strewn about the field…

I’ll check in tomorrow morning…especially to respond to Army of Lovers…and you too, Sharon. I’m pooped.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4Im6q9e0ow&mode=related&search=
Billy Says:
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Hey Sharon,

Thanks for the Haskins info. Rest assured, I have no aspirations to advance my coaching “career” past high school.

OK, about Army of Lovers…I am guessing that Yiddish might have seen that on an old Beavis and Butt-head episode. I can’t remember all of the comments from those “comic masters”, but I remember another video that I only saw on Beavis and Butt-head:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iXcQMZL6IA4

Those Euros…
Cranky Says:
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Billy, welcome back! There was some sort of football game on?

Just saw the video. Insipid lyrics, yet somehow able to keep my attention.
Billy Says:
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Yeah…this one:

Game link
Stop The ACLU Says:
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:45 pm
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