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How about a round of good song, craptastic video? I'm in for Pat Benetar and her Love Is A Battlefield video. Love her voice. Love this song. The dude with the teeth? Not so much. The hooter shimmy? Crap-tacular.
Today's comment of the day goes to Renee from Ohio:
Just saw this headline:Bush Sheltered During Tornado Alert
When is that man *not* sheltered?
Mwahahahahahahaha! So painfully true...and yet amusing, nonetheless.
And in case anyone was wondering: I'm with Digby. Consider this an open thread. Please post a link to your favorite craptastic video...that last thread was way too fun.
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I’m pulling out some Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong for our Holiday Party, which begins at 7:00 pst.
not the zed!
Perhaps one day Bush and Saddam can share the same cell in hell. For eternity.
Happy New Year, CHS!!11!
Hmmm…. ok… not craptastic, but super fun and cheesy!!!
Lucy in the Sky with William Shatner!!!
http://www.newsfromme.com/arch.....tml#011504
And Bush will continue to be sheltered. He will never see the inside of an earthly cell. But justice will still be served. There just might be ethereal jails, George. You do profess to believe in Heaven and Hell. Don’t you?
For some reason, this from the Dire Straits just feels appropriate on so many levels today.
This is probably old news to some, but Taylor Marsh just put up this article about the Gerald Ford/Richard Nixon relationship and the pardon:
http://www.taylormarsh.com/arc.....p?id=24988
Read the Woodward article she links. It was a bit of an eye-opener to me.
Just for a fun break — the Pachelbel Rant.
I was quite surprised to see my comment in the new thread. Well, my husband’s comment–that was his quip when I read him the headline. But he almost never blogs any more, so I get to use his stuff. ;)
Christy Hardin Smith @
7
But… but… but that song’s not craptastic!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 7
The Brothers In Arms album also contained one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
SteveNS at 11 — I know. But I felt the need for some Mark Knopfler, so indulge me. I love that whole album.
CHS @7…
For sure.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 13
Gladly! That album is one I listened to all through high school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Average White Band. Oh how I loved them!
y’all need to chill with some tape of Todd Rundgren doing Real Man live in 1978.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEfYb36rgxM
(I used to go out with men who dressed like this).
I don’t have a craptastic video to link to, so I’m watching MSNBC. Where I just saw some hatchet-faced broad explain to me that Saddam’s uncle was aligned with the Nazis and that was Saddam’s major influence growing up… (Hmmm… Was his uncle buddies with Prescott Bush who also had some shady German friends?? Just kidding…)
Well, I guess live craptastic video counts, doesn’t it?
Well there was a good thing about the 80s–it was before the dawn of 24 hour cable news networks.
Cujo359 @
12
Great song from possibly one of the best albums from the 80s. I wore out two vinyl copies of that album before I got it on CD.
OK this is a great video someone put together recently about our craptastic chimp-in-chief, with vocals by George Michael…FREEDOM!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2OXQh3duI
I have this picture in my mind of the Chimp pushing Pickles out of the way to get into the shelter first. Come’on you know he did!
Deacon Blues @ 22
Not before he kicked Barney out of the way…
You said craptastic video? Here (holding his nose). I officially nominate this for worst video evah.
The Bush family fortune derives from this family’s financial dealings with the Nazis during the run-up to WWII. This is not rumor. It is factual information readily available.
a song I like from the early 80’s - that’s entertainment
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I’ve gotta go check into the family life. I think the oldest wants to kick my butt on the Chess board (ha! a challenge)
But, in parting, I just need to represent that Minneapolis (specifically Bob Mould and Husker Du) invented the whole grunge scene. We were just cleaner!
I believe that much of the music from the sixties was the greatest when it comes to anti-war, anti-corruption and peace messages.
Fini at 27 — Oh yeah? That Warrant video sucks. But I’ll raise you a Rupert Holmes. Mwahahahaha.
Christy Hardin Smith @
7
Looks like you and I had the same idea at about the same time LOL. I suggested the same tune in the last thread.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 25
True, the modern fortune was made investing in Nazi business partners, banking and supplying the Reich. The Bush clan however goes back to the founding of America and I believe were Loyalists descended from King George III’s family. Explains a lot doesn’t it?
Don’t have one to put up. Haven’t been able to bear watching the tube the past few days. Went to a movie last night. Before that we watched 5 episodes of West Wing on Wed. night. About to go back and pick up where we left off. Still have about 144 to go. That should be able to cover over the garbage that is on the tube, all 200 channels of it.
Grateful to have the WW to go back to.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
24
got my vote. did the video editor even listen to the music?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 28
HEAR!! HEAR!!! (Arthritically clapping…) Yeah, that was music. Disco happened, and that’s when I turned the radio off.
brownandserve at 30 — Good minds think alike, I suppose. I keep finding myself humming that tune lately. The news has been so grim, and it keeps popping into my mind.
If your daughter leaves home in anger, never tell her she can’t come back.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 24
Of course, the music was craptastic there, too. Hair bands are responsible for some of the worst music videos. This one, for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzkmj3IE3Q
or this one (the music’s not so bad here, though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PrdGcINdDk
As to injustice? I am going to keep on, keepin’ on. Fighting it. It will soon be 2008. And there is so damn much work ahead. And so little time.
Riesz at 36 — That’s a cryptic comment. You okay?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 29
Oh! It’s like that eh? I’ll see your Rupert Holmes (albeit with scorched retinas) and raise you a Milli Vanilli.
Dire Straits can do no wrong. No one can hear this song and be sad.
Also, The Pretenders.
OMG. How the hell did I miss this?
Just poked around after lina’s Todd Rundgren link and found Rundgren on Power Lunch.
Jeepers. We are ALL getting old.
Craptastic? You want craptastic? Craptastic from the 80’s?
The Flying Pickets
Here’s the original, Yaz, which was a cool 80’s song.
“….cool 80’s band.”
Fini at 40 — Ouch. Okay, that one hurt. But you asked for it…try this one. If you dare.
Cujo359 @ 37
Oh my, this one escaped me back then (thank gods). I didnt mind Ratt as much as the really crappy Warrant/Poison/Winger MTV manufactured male model “bands”. I hated the glam rock scene with a passion.
EPU at 43 — Oh lordy. Those sideburns belong on stage in a Gilbert and Sullivan production. Yeeeeowch.
Agh!! My eyes!! My ears!!
I just watched RATT for crying out loud!!!
There should be warnings posted, something like, “Bring an XXL-sized hair net and hearing protection before opening link!”
per msnbc.com, federal judge in dc denies saddam’s attorney’s request for a stay.
FFT - I think my choice wins for most craptastic video - but of course I do.
And this is the greatest video of all time - I dare you, infinity dog dare anyone, to find a better one. You can’t, so don’t waste your time.
Weezer - Buddy Holly Video
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 46
I’m not intimately familiar with the form, personally. I just plug band names into the YouTube search window and up pop these gems. I remember being alternately appalled and entertained by some of the clowns you mentioned, and their fans.
CHS - I refrain from commenting beyond craptastic.
Hey, tomorrow I become a Californian, ofically. :))))))))))!
Evil Parallel Universe @ 43
That. Defies. Comment. You are so lucky you posted the original as antidote or we’d be having words (j/k). I do love me some Yaz.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 45
MY EYES! MY EARS! THEY’RE MELTING! AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Rayne @ 42
that is truly bizarre.
and Power Lunch seems like two eras ago.
Barbara Boxer withdraws a “certificate of accomplishment” to Sacramento activist Basim Elkarra after learning that he serves as an official with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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EPU at 52 — Congrats! I hope it ends up being as fun as you are hoping it will. :)
You guys are killing me… I am on a cellular wireless or dial up…. I can get the first 10 seconds and the whole thing chokes….. grrrr …
No fun… not fair… boo hoo…
Fini at 52 — I didn’t want to have to do it to you, man. It hurt me more than it hurt you, believe me. *g*
Rayne @ 42
Then there is always Frank Zappa on Crossfire!
katymine at 57 — well, I’ll save you the pain. Don’t bother with my last one at 45 — it was “Afternoon Delight.”
Evil Parallel Universe @ 50
I bow to your craptastic video hunting skillz. I concede, that thing was horrid.
COMPLETELY off both topics (craptastic videos and live blogging All Saddam All The Time Until He’s Dead), but this is good news that was new to me:
http://www.savetheinternet.com.....-congress/
AT&T seems to have signed off on net neutrality for at least 2 years… Yeah, it’s a bribe to get the merger, but it’s a start…
FFT - More Yaz - who were really good - LIVE !!! (or at least pretending to be).
Nobody’s Diary
Though I’ve always really disliked Depeche Mode.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 58
The radiation from it. Owie. Hold me! (faints)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 60
One of my best milking goats was named Afternoon Delight…. a registered Alpine goat…. What a sweetie too…..
CHS - Thanks. I think it will turn out that way :)
That’s it, I have to pull out the big guns after all the abuse to which I just subjected my retinas and ear drums. Even my laptop is dry heaving.
One.
Two.
Three.
EPU, welcome to Callyforne, don’t be offended by those many inhabitants of this fair state who believe they are the universe. They just don’t know any better.
May I ask, NorCal or Lala land?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 60
They were a DeeCee band, and played at a big party during the Virginia statewide campaign I managed in the Seventies.
Howdy EPU — all the fruits and nuts roll down here eventually, why not the Universe?
LaLaland - Brentwood to be exact.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 61
You mean the irony wasn’t intentional? I kinda liked it.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 63
You know that Yaz/Yazoo was Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet and that Clarke was a founding member of Depeche Mode before he left to form Yaz. He then formed Erasure after Yaz broke up.
Evil Parallel Universe @ 71
brutal, dude.
OT but Riverbend’s posted again.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
FFT - Yes, I did know that, which is why I thought I should note my dislike of Depeche Mode.
Kurlan at 75 — Since this morning’s post? *goes to see…*
Cujo359 — yeah, that’s what I made of Weezer, too, very ironic stuff, rather cute. There was a cutting edge to it, if subtle.
Inadvertently posted this downstairs…
As a songwriter wannabe, I always felt this song was underrated because of it’s got such a strong hook but the video adds nothing IMHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEcTNvfKgw
Backstreet Boys- I want it that way
I always liked this video, too. I just wish it wasn’t in a crappy little flashmedia format:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fq-0ucXXc90
The scenery is gorgeous. I’ve always liked visiting the desert.
just saw a glimpse of judy kneepads on msnbc talking about saddam….
Cujo - There was no irony. Weezer’s Buddy Holly is the greatest video ever made. Now, I love Weezer as a band, but simply judged as a video, it wins.
brownandserve — oh, that inadequate video for that Backstreet Boys was fixed, didn’t you know?
It’s now a classic.
Rayne @ 67
Okay. I’ll cut you some slack here, because maybe you were unaware you were bombing the civilian population. Number 2 (and boy, oh, boy, isn’t it just?) goes beyond the pale. When that piece of crapola was #1 I was running a press in a print shop as the low (wo)man on the totem pole. The radio station chosen by the more senior pressmen played that thing about 287 times a day until I thought I would lose my mind. I still have scars… What did I ever do to you??? Please… I IMPLORE you… No more…no more… no more {collapses into a Billy-Ray-Cyrus-induced coma}
I see your vanilla ice and raise you a baby back
Rayne @ 67
Oh man, I almost went nuclear before I realized I might offend with what I wanted to respond with. I will refrain in the interests of peace.
Muzzy @ 85
Too late someone nuked anyway.
Helloooo….There are those of us who can not play in the reindeer games…. Can ya just put a few hints so I know what I am missing?
Food for thought:
America’s top 1% of wealth owners currently have title to just under 50% of all stocks, bonds and business assets. Government statistics show that even a tinier group - a mere 2/10 of 1% - made more money from the sale of stocks and bonds than all other taxpayers taken together in the most recent year for which data is available (1999). This is the reality behind the rhetoric of the Bush “ownership society.”
Gar Alperovitz - CommonDreams.org, 10 May 05
The modern peddlers of free trade, on the other hand, who must get rid of their commodities at any price, stress the quantitative side of the relative form of value. For them, accordingly, there exists neither value, nor magnitude of value, anywhere except in its expression by means of the exchange relation, that is, in the daily list of prices current on the stock exchange.
Karl Marx - Capital, Vol I, Chap 1, p153
Show me the money.
Peace.
Never give up.
Rayne @ 67
You’ll have to do better than that, Rayne. Like this for instance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kYva5cs-qPs
Now that’s bad…
Cujo359 @ 80
You know you can expand YouTube vids to full screen by clicking on the lower right corner of the video player if you are on the video’s page at YouTube. It doesnt work when they are embedded in a page like they do here at the lake, but if you are on the YouTube site page for the video it can go full screen that way.
Best video on treadmills…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vs7Mb5c5zAs
Jeralyn says the final arrangements are in place for the Hussein execution.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/12/29/17463/653
I wish I knew how to make a link!
My nominee for most craptastic song and video:
Billy Squier: Rock Me Tonight
The call to prayer for the start of Eid has already been heard in Baghdad … and yet it appears the execution is going ahead.
katymine @ 88
Good point, sorry. Part of the fun of a YouTube war is getting someone to click through not knowing what horror awaits. I’ll post band and title from here on out for mine for you.
ccmask at 92 — That is too fun!
Marion — all’s fair in love and war, doncha’ know? There’s going to be collateral damage from time to time. ;-)
What’s really frustrating is that Cyrus has a lovely little daughter Miley that is very popular with the tweenage set, can be found on Disney’s Hanna Montana — and Daddy Cyrus actually appears on the show. Gives me the heebie-jeebies that I can’t explain fairly to the kids.
Gotcha on that Cyrus-spawned damage, though; I was stuck in a corporate drone job sitting next to the boss’s pet who was a country music freak. Mind you, the only two kinds of music I detest are country and western…ugh. I thought I was going to have to gnaw my leg off to get out of that trap.
ccmask @ 92
I cannot find the words to describe how deeply, deeply weird that was… Is it just because I’m an old fart, do you think? Nah… It’s just WEIRD.
Kentucky Woman @ 94
When you find the video on YouTube they have a little box with the link to the video displayed next to it labeled Permalink.
katymine @ 88
Sorry, bout that. MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Toby Keith. Not to mention Ratt, and Cinderella.
My #80 was Midnight Oil’s “Beds Are Burning”, which so far is the only video I’ve linked that you might actually want to watch.
Fini at 96 — Even knowing that the nettiquette was not to post what awaited — I came oh so close to telling you I was posting Afternoon Delight because having you click thru unannounced seemed like cruel and unusual blogging.
RBG @ 93
And, therefore, no more trials of any kind. No referrals to the ICC, where embarrassing information about US involvement in those crimes of Saddam’s might be revealed.
Quick and tidy. Poopy’s reputation saved again….
Was somebody talking about the interests of peas?
Christy — the really disgusting part about that Afternoon Delight vid is the permed hair and wretched monster glasses; I can’t take my eyes off them while he’s crooning “Aaaafternooon Deeelight…”
Gah.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 91
Yes. I tried it just to be sure. It just looks like a 240×180 pixel video blown up to the size of Montana. A bunch of blurs, in other words.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 100
No YouTube…still searching
Rayne, just shook off the coma… I’ve seen previews for “Hannah Montana.” If that little girl is Cyrus’s daughter maybe he’s not all bad… She seems a cute little thing.
The Rude One on Saddam:
“. . . Dry Saddam’s organs and grind them into a powder and pour it into the water supply of the United States so we can each consume a little bit of the man who so drove our leaders crazy that they destroyed our economy, our military, our morality to topple him, yes, let us all drink that in, toasting the hanging of Saddam Hussein as a demonstration of what great and noble and righteous and merciful humans we are.”
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Christy Hardin Smith @ 102
LOL you should have! You know that song is like kryptonite, sulfuric acid, lava and shredded glass driven into all open orifices for a musician type person like me don’t you? I forgive you this time but please pretty please spare the horror for other musician type folks in the future, give em a warning!
Montag - precisely, precisely.
The most efficient way to shut him up. And CNN is loving every minute of it … never noting the lack of due process. This is horrifying.
Thank you Fini FiniTOOBZ! & Cujo359… ;)
Forgive me, but sitting in front of a Christmas tree talking about people at the gallows seems so repellant to me in so many ways I can’t even describe it…
I think to reach a true epistemological understanding of craptastrophy - to see Crap that is - you need a wee bit more obscurity than a lot of the links being posted.
God help America
EPU — welcome to Calif.
Have you made an appt. to get your car detailed yet?