Login HereOther than the fact that it was the 80's and lots of people were doing drugs, can anyone explain this song to me? Any other 80's vids out there you'd like to share -- because I'm in a nostalgic mood.
And for my friend Tim, who may or may not be reading today, I'm also sending out this link. Memories...nothing like watching a singer who looks like a friend, dances like a friend and...well, I'm laughing with you, not at you, I swear. hehehehe
Seemed like a good time for something fun. Consider this an open thread.
But do share your favorite videos from past and present -- and feel free to share the worst videos you can recall seeing if you can dig up a link. I have a feeling we could all use a laugh or two today.
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hey - what happenede to my FITZ?
Good one, Christy!
One of my favourite tunes from the ’80’s.
I can’t help but sing along to the chorus.
Saddam to hand at 10 pm EST.
http://apnews.myway.com//artic.....PK000.html
oops that would be
Saddam to hang at 10 p.m. EST.
http://apnews.myway.com//artic.....PK000.html
SteveNS at 2 — I know — the tune is so catchy — but the lyrics? It’s a mystery! I heard this story that it was a joke song that they put together on a lark with a challenge to incorporate several of the words into the song, but I have no idea if it is true or some sort of urban legend. Anyone know?
yellow snapdragon at 4 — that’s odd — MSNBC’s website was just reporting that they are going to delay. I have this weird feeling that no one really knows what is going on with this…
In honor of Saddam, perhaps…
Ashes to Ashes, by David Bowie
Christy @ 5 –
The “joke song” theory would go a ways towards explaining the video, too.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 6
enough confusion for saddam to escape and one of his ’stunt doubles’ to be hanged in his place ;)
(I’m trying to start a conspiracy theory)
MSNBC is reporting the same 6 a.m. Baghdad (10 a.m. EST) gallows time.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16389128/
offered without explanation
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7oWfHN1rrGc
I am not even going to try and explain the meaning of this song. Because 90% of the time, my meaning is not what the creator of it meant. LOL
OK! Conspiracy Theory! The US handed Saddam over to the Iraqis. And they will let Saddam escape.
Eurythmics
Saddam now officially has 3 more hours to live. Needs a song, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8H6jp2ZgGg
the era of big eyeglasses….
Oh, and b43 had to run away from a tornado warning today, while clearing brush (literally) at the National Ranch in Crawford. Needs a song too, I think.
TSF @ 14 — I love Eurythmics, but that’s probably my least favourite of all their singles.
Still, any Eurythmics at all is a good thing.
Swopa @
7
sublime
perhaps mine should been in ‘honor’ of John Poindexter
mandrake @ 16
nice! IIRC that Gabriel video was a seminal work
Christy Hardin Smith @
5
Christy -
Could the answer to your question be in punaise’s repository of lyrics? *g*
Blub @ 15
The obvious
led zeppelin - Gallows Pole
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 22
I’ll go rummaging…
punaise @ 24
here ya go. (damn, that’s one awful song. what’s next - Christopher Cross?)
Mack at 11 — Uh. Mah. Gawd.
Checking the Wikipedia entry for this song yielded this little nugget:
http://www.waze.net/china/africa.php
I always thought it had something to do with someone who was in Africa who had left a loved on back home, probably a failed relationship. Beyond that, well …
OK, here:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/happyfeet
and here:
http://www.glumbert.com/media/mckee (this cat never got the Mel Bay book when starting out)
_
Hey if Raven is still around I have a question about PodTube (the second video I tried to d/l has been ‘encoding’ for three hours now - wtf?
:)
my email is my fdl handle at mindspring DOT com
funny, I LOVE that song christie, but like you, never understood WHAT the frig they were singing about…’cept I knew it had something to do with africa
anyway, my FAVORITE rock song of all time, I have NO clue what it means, if someone wants to explain, please do;
tis I am the eggman, teh greatest rock band of all time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZb6miNQyYM
I can’t allow an opportunity to pimp some of my fave tunes pass by…
(No matter how often I listen to it, the last minute of this song is still transcendent.)
in today’s vernacular it would translate into;
my contempt for leiberman knows no bounds”
this is my belief
punaise @ 21
plus, it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it! (seriously)
a little corny by today’s standards but
I loved this as a teen
Rough Trade
All Touch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSew3siivk
Swopa at 7 — Good one. And appropriate for today on so many levels.
moi @ 34
Carole Pope still scares me.
It’s not snowing here in Connecticut, but it’s always raining men. I love this song and who better than Ru Paul and his weather forecast to deliver? A little something for everyone…
Thanks Christy…we do need a little fun.
twolf1 @
9
Conspiracy theory, yay. How about Saddam pulls a John Lee http://www.torquay.com/New_Tor.....acombe.htm and, of course it’s covered up
A great song about a young Marine saved by the ghost of another older Marine. I give you Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway
bookwoman @ 37
Um…. why is Katherine Harris in that video at the 0:20 mark?
I wonder if Kenny-Boy Lay’s tidied up the place for Saddam’s imminent arrival….
A Christian religio-crazy truism:
If Saddam asked Jesus for forgiveness right now and declared Jesus as his Lord and Savior, he would be forgiven and be saved. Ghandi, however, burns in hell.
I want a time machine so I can go back to the 80s. But I think I’d have to have some brain cells zapped so that I could be that clueless once again–otherwise it wouldn’t work.
That may have been some g-dawful music, but it was the first non-classical music I really got a chance to listen to–once I’d moved away to college. And at that time, I had not a clue what was going on in the world around me. Just bouncy happy silly music, bright colorful clothes, mostly easy classes…
And by the mid-point of that decade, I’d already met Demetrius, but the wonderful but intense kids I now hear (periodically screaming at each other) upstairs were yet a long way off.
Simpler times…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41Xnqq8FQw
Robert Palmer was the man!
Not an 80s pick, but I love Loreena McKinnett’s voice. This isn’t my favorite of her songs, but it was the best quality YouTube of her I could find: The Bonny Swans. When I was writing a lot of fiction, I used to listen to her quite a bit as background music when I was working on a story. Great instrumentals on her music.
Fantastic thread Christy, a real complement to the Spin thread earlier. I love it when the firepups share YouTube links around the fiber optic fire.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 45
She is so wonderful. I love her music dearly and her voice is so enchanting. Very cool stuff.
w-w-what????? fiction?
do tell, CHS!
I think it was Cicero who wrote:
Contemptus meus libermani non major potest.
Here’s another of my faves — Oleta Adams Get Here. Always amazes me that such a huge voice comes out of such a tiny, little woman.
Test.
New keyboard.
Same computer illiterate operator.
alls good.
This was actually something of a minor hit for Loreena McKennitt, at least in these parts.
Steve @ 40
Um…. why is Katherine Harris in that video at the 0:20 mark?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUx5z9O2ZGk
A little blue eyed soul from Squeeze.
Bustednuckles @ 51
Several keys appear to be working ;)
Teddy at 48 — I wrote science fiction and fantasy — still do, I’m just not actively pushing it for publication at the moment. I’ve had a short story or two published, and did a great interview with George R.R. Martin a few years back for a British publication. Am hoping to get a little more time for some fiction writing at some point — love it.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 50
It’s a pretty earnest song, but I always liked the guest vocal she provided on this Tears for Fears track.
Its meaning? Obvious. It’s Toto’s interpretation of Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” though the “heart of darkness” they find in women who won’t sleep with them even though they are “rockstars” unless they write songs (or a song) about them.
:)
klyde at 54 — I see your Black Coffee in Bed…and I raise you a Tempted. LUV that song.
to be re-published at 10:00 EST:
Hey Georgie - he’s dead - you won.
can we come home now?
Oh what a delightfully bad video. Guilty pleasure though, I’ve always loved this song. What’s it about? Love of a continent and its people. Jungle fever! Don’t you love the librarian losing her glasses at the end? Gosh, the 80’s had a lot of great music and a lot of bad video! Eurythmics did some great stuff, and Peter Gabriel for sure.
But the video I really want to share with everyone from the 80’s is a recent discovery. Someone online linked to it in anticipation of “Dreamgirls” - it is the Jennifer Holiday performance at the 82 Tony awards and if you haven’t seen it it will knock your socks off!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4uc9b2s1o
oh, dear — October now tied with December at 106 US deaths. (scroll down a bit) (h/t aravosis)
does anybody else have a problem with the front page ???
the text is hidden under the ads along the right hand side
maybe it’s just my cheap computer, or the lousy dial-up
in other news, riverbend has a new post
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....Sugarcubes Hit The sugarcubes sugar cubes Bjork Kukl
One of my favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIC7KQPDuDc
What I did not know for a long time is that it was a cover for Joan Bayez’ this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2iJ4MnnbFM
Careful of the first one, it is metal, after all.
Christy Hardin Smith @
59
Too funny…I was just looking for Cool for Cats.
SteveNS @ 52
It was actually a top 10 hit in the US
Who can forget this from Kate Bush?
As for Africa, yeah, one of my favorites. Who knows what the hey it means? It means breathing and hot nights and beauty and longing and satisfaction all in one holy moment.
Or not.
mandrake @
16
One of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs is this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE
Love her! Her stuff totally puts me in a trance…
Christy Hardin Smith @ 45
SteveNS at 57 — I had forgotten she was on that song — and I had completely forgotten the serious earnestness of a Tears for Fears video. *g*
LindaR @ 67
George Bush is “Running Up That Bill”
ralps @ 68
oh, yeah…
TeddySanFran @ 61
Oh Lord, Kumbya
Blub @ 18
something like this:
wrong decade, but here’s Radiohead - High and Dry
freepatriot at 62 — I just checked and it’s loading just fine for me. Maybe your browser cache is full? Sometimes, if I restart my computer it helps to clear that out — but perhaps one of the better computer minds could chime in on that for you…
apparently I don’t know how to edit comments!
any advice?Renee in Ohio @ 43
I didn’t realize how much fun the 80’s were until it was all over! Also, a gal could dress cheap in those days, all you needed was a coupla old sweatshirts and a pair o’ scissors!
catchy!
punaise @ 75
Love Radiohead. Pyramid Song is genius.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 59
So do I, Thanks
Christy Hardin Smith @ 56
Christy, I’m a fellow “aspiring” writer. A great place for support and info is Readerville. They have many threads about writing and publishing and a pretty good participation by published writers.
for a hundred different reasons:
Carly Simon’s Let the River Run
We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.
Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.
Silver cities rise,
The morning lights
The streets that meet them,
And sirens call them on
With a song.
It’s asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.
We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.
We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark’ning dawn.
It’s asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
The sky is the color of blue
You’ve never even seen
In the eyes of your lover.
Oh, my heart is aching.
We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.
It’s asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.
We’re coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.
Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.
So much good stuff, so little time
First, there’s Paul Thorn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dcj8JkKu7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dybRBPX4njo
Then there’s The Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyjhtOTy1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqmg9u69×3c
Then there’s this guy (Love you brother)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSteBpYQ_mI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XU_yFqcFqHE
Finally, there’s God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxNnEEK6uG0
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One of the best Eurythmics videos is “King and Queen of America” where they portray some funny stereotypes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNBfHzwrGIg
mandrake at 77 — you mean, a couple of sweatshirts and some scissors…like this? (Man, talk about your 80s flashback…)
For thos who missed ‘The Spin I’m In’ earlier,
Here is an instant classic.
Click the link, turn it up loud and sing along, you will like it.
http://filmstripinternational.com/
This thread is killing me. Makes me realize how old I’m getting :(
Kelven @ 83
Or I Need a Man, where they take the piss out of Mick Jagger.
Ah, Diamonds and Rust! So many memories . . . (the Baez version).
aah, nevah mind, dere it is
LindaR at 81 — If you are interested at all in writing science fiction or fantasy, I highly recommend sff.net — wonderful folks, lots of very big name writers who are quite approachable.
Europa and the Pirate Twins.
Eh, why not?
Mysterious Mr X bails California nearly out of debt. Maybe Ahnold threatened some more leg breaking?
H/T Raw Story
klyde @ 88
I’m with you, Klyde.
OldCoastie @
79
MC 900 Ft. Jesus - If I Only had a Brain
Here’s a 2006 vid that you may like:
“More and More Like A Civil War” by X-Patriate, which totally blew up on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jordT1Kuc88
Also, “Rome Burns”, which actually includes an (anti-Bush) Iraqi joke!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04Dm1W3q9I
Two years before we got engaged and married…remember playing Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car over and over.
Like clear, cold water after excess.
Jacqrat @ 29
Jacqrat @ 29
Hey, sorry got lots of family here for the Chicken/Peach Bowl. Did the first one work? I have had vids that took more than one try. I assume you are using Safari?
Christy, re sff.net — thanks. That’s not my genre, but I’ll check it out.
Another venue for good writing is Literary Mama. They published my interview with Carolyn See recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
raven @ 99
First one worked like a charm! I’ll try again, maybe from another user. Could someone block encoding on a vid? Just a guess.
ralps @ 68
so young . . . so young
Since we are doing nostalgia, one of my dearest friends “Chef Ra’ passed away a couple of days ago. He was a very strong advocate of human rights and a complete wildman. He will be missed by those he touched
Chef Ra
jeffreyw @ 94
Aw, you’re welcome! :)
twolf1 @
23
yup, good choice
Don’t Fear the Reaper,,,?
Renegade…?
I’ve had that happen as well, it’s a crapshoot but the best thing I know of in this area.
Jacqrat @ 102
Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street. Haunting.
BobbyG at 28 - that’s funny (rapping penguins)
The Godfather of Soul on Ed Sullivan 1966!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L6N5ciJ8DA
sorry, nothing from the 80’s on my mind at the moment.
mandrake @ 101
you’re on a roll
Just saw this headline:
Bush Sheltered During Tornado Alert
When is that man *not* sheltered?
I found this one about a month ago and showed it to my teenagers. They couldn’t believe how cool it was.
Mark my words, this style is coming back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Talking heads
Once in a lifetime
I am very lucky to have this lovely face to come home to…
(hey! sometimes I can’t help myself!)
TubeHere’s a thread about podtube issues
ellen at 110 — good one!
Kelven @
85
thanks, kelven, that one’s a keeper. i’d forgotten quite how many oxen were gored in the making of that vid. especially liked annie’s version of tammyfaye.
Renee in Ohio @ 110
The guy can’t handle bad news. I wonder what they actually told him to get him to cover?
“Sir, we’ve hidden your dinner somewhere in this building. Bet you can’t find it in under 60 seconds.”
rumi @ 106
Tom Dool