Other 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
[Mod Note; no issues on this end. For future reference, it’s really helpful if you let us know what browser you’re using when things like this come up]
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 Dooley
Funny, I didn’t care for her as much during the ’80’s as I did during the ’90’s. I must have grown up a little after I got hitched and saddled with my first mortgage and corporate drone job.
Carly Simon’s A Case of You
Actually, I think it said he was “moved to an armored vehicle”. Maybe they let him pretend to drive.
moi @ 113
nice! one of the best records ever (Remain in Light)
_____
David Byrne and Brian Eno – Mea Culpa
Renee in Ohio @ 120
tee-hee
Rayne @ 120
A friend of mine once quoted a term for this phenomenon where you don’t like a performer/performers until many years later: postalgia h/t Chris
Rayne @ 118
She lost me around the time she morphed into Joni Mitchell!
;-)
The ultimate odd couple
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-m3MXDS_wNg
punaise @ 95
You got to love a guy who names himself after an Oral Roberts vision used to extort money from his flock.
Ok, you made the mistake of starting this with me…Alan Parsons Project
Blue yster Cult
ABC – Be Near Me
A HA
punaise @ 122
I’m still partial to Fear of Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNaedXurT60
How about Closer To Fine By the Indigo Girls. They actually helped end my metal stage. Got this album the day I saw the video on MTV.
Noonan @ 124
That Alan Parsons song is yet ANOTHER of my ’80’s favourites!
This thread is nostalgia gold!
Today’s Ms. ET’s and my 28th wedding anniversary. We’re also holding our annual Holiday party. My left arm is in a sling from shoulder surgery Wednesday. But I’m helping with what I can. Yesterday was tough. Even 15 hours of morphine had nasty withdrawal effects for me. I hate that stuff. Thank G*d, trylenol seems to do me fine.
Our party is starting right when the doors open for Saddam one last time. Weird….
Oh Noonan…I Robot is one of my favorite albums, can listen to it again and again. Alan Parsons was so ahead of his time.
Another fave….
Lene Lovich “Blue Hotel”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60b6yMBQr_0
OK, one more and I’m calling it quits:
Talk Talk
Sorry, here’s the link:
Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
Here’s the real Raven (but we call him Boo-boo)!
Raven
Ed*ard Teller @ 132
glad to hear you are off the juice and up and around…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Nr5HcZDx8
johnSwifty @ 126
tough call, but I won’t quibble
Saddam Hangs:
http://cartoonbox.slate.com/ho…..topicid=26
Had to delurk just to say-
Toto africa is one of the cheesiest songs ever. Painful.
Eurythmics best snark is “I need you”.
mandrake @ 127
Oh. My. Gawd. I loooooooove this song. I had never seen this video until just now. Thank you so much, you’ve made my and my brother’s day!
Gawd, Brian Eno’s voice turns my knees to pudding.
Thanks punaise.
How about a little Roxy Music?
Avalon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5A1zJZXoQ0
punaise @ 140
Here’s one for Ms. punaise: Greg Lake
My personal preference here, is Brain Salad Surgery
george looking kinda sexy here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Richard and Linda Thompson “A Heart Needs a Home”Heart
worst. haircut. ever.
but a pretty good schmaltzy pop song:
Simply Red – Holding Back the years
moi @ 141
it’s all coming back to me now….
EillieenDexy’s Midnight Runners anyone
Wow. Just tripped on something I didn’t expect to find, while poking around looking for Alan Parsons’ I Robot.
Alan Parsons’ Time.
Starts thready, but wow.
Ladies and Gentleman, Fee Waybill and The Tubes!
Big Country – In A big Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udMGCJF0fXs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m94qqMAn4EM
Joan Jett – I Hate Myself For Loving You
In the Air Tonight
Another Day In Paradise
Men without hats, look at your hands!
Safety Dance
Here is an antiwar song from the 80s I always loved.
raven @ 138
Aw, I call my doggie Boo-boo, too but her name is really Bravo!
Off topic, but it appears that Dumbya will be watching a snuff film at his brush-ranch tonight. It will be interesting to see what Sadaam’s execution will add to the conflagration.
raven @ 154
Oh man–I don’t know why I love that song, but I do. And Come on Eileen too. Bookmarking this thread so I can find the videos later.
XTC:
Making Plans for Nigel
Dear God
SteveNS @ 132
My speakers still blow my hair back….well, what little I have now.
Toto
:-D
johnSwifty @ 152
Trivia: In Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Fee Waybill plays one of “The Three Most Important People In The World.”
We were at a yard sale a few years back and this sweet old lady asked what his name was. I said, “well, his name is Raven, we call him boo-boo but he answers to stinky”. She said, “My vet told me if a dog had more than one name he was truly loved”. This little guy has been battling cancer for two years, he has the heart of a lion and we cherish every minute we have with him and his sidekick the Bohdisattva!
Jacqrat @ 159
a very young, very hairy Michael Stipe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA57Pafq_NU
Good beat, easy to dance to. 8
Renee in Ohio @ 161
Rayne @
120
Did you mean to say Joni Mitchell?
Love Shack Baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrBUQzNOn0o
Notice how shy he is during the interview. They got the “entertainer of the year” award from the Athens paper today. . .duh!
mandrake @ 166
I have two cousins, a her and a him, back from Iraq for the holidays. There going back in a couple of days. They’re both kids in their very early 20’s. And they’re both scared s’less. They both say we’re not wanted in Iraq and that we should close this insanity down. But they’ll go back. Because they have to.
Ah, the British version of The Medal of Freedom:
John Scarlett, who took responsibility for the error-ridden dossier that justified the war in Iraq, is knighted in today’s New Year’s Honours list. The award will enrage peace campaigners, who have accused the veteran spymaster of saving Tony Blair’s skin over the flawed case for the invasion.
The news came as a British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra yesterday, the 127th to die since the invasion in 2003.
http://news.independent.co.uk/…..112587.ece
it is the Jennifer Holiday performance at the 82 Tony awards and if you haven’t seen it it will knock your socks off!!!
I can still remember watching the Tony awards that night, and being completely dumbstruck by that performance.
btw, here is my favorite video of all time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
sadly, youtube can’t do justice to the bruce weber cinematography…..
eek…. my favorite is stuck in moderation hell! :(
Bless em.
Oklahoma kiddo @
171
The Jam:
Going Underground
That’s Entertainment
ET – Have a great time tonight, congrats on the anniversary!
Take it easy too… I and others who had that surgery started feeling good 2-3 days out and then did too much and then over did it. I felt so good that I cleaned most of the house and then I was down for a week. As a nurse, told my surgery patients Not to get out of their PJ’s too soon, especially the women/mothers. When ya get dressed, everyone starts thinking you are back to normal.
raven @ 154
This song inspired my first action as a political activist. I was in 6th grade when this song came out and just absolutely loved it. Everytime it came on the radio or MTV the volume would go to 12 and my mom would roll her eyes.
Anyway, the PTO (I was in Catholic school, we didnt belong to the PTA) had a special meeting to discuss this new cultural emergency sweeping the school that was causing a big stir with some of the more conservative parents. The Safety Dance they felt was code for either A) premarital sex or B) drug abuse or C) all of the above and Had To Be Stopped At All Cost.
My mom being the wonderful open minded person that she is knew I loved the song, caught wind of this meeting she was supposed to go to and asked me point blank what the deal was with the song. I explained to her that it was a song loosely based on a Canadian folk song and that the duo singing it were from Canada and there was nothing sinister to it.
I in turn got so livid they were having a special meeting I spent the next half hour ranting and raving so much mom decided to take me to the meeting and make them listen to me. I also called up everyone in my class I had phone numbers for to tell them what was going on and 10 of my classmates made their parents bring them to the meeting to support me. It ended up being my first victory in the defense of free speech/artistic expression and I love sharing this story whenever I can.
trifecta at 131 — LUV the Indigo Girls. Saw them in concert a few years ago and they were wonderful. Thanks for that link. :)
Stephen Parrish — yes, I did mean Joni Mitchell and not Carly…
Must be my age catching up with me.
Heh.
I want out of Iraq now. I want prosecutions. I want a just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian ‘question’.
It only takes a spark to start a prarie fire. I posted this already but no one seemed interested (maybe because of the site it’s on). Jim was the all-American boy when he was wrongfully accused. He was an activist until the day he died
Jim Wilson
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 178
LindaR @ 163
Really? Not Socrates. Not Billy the Kid. Beethoven maybe?
great story fini, those early life victories for free speech and expression never pale….
mandrake @ 165
Oh. My. God.
I can taste the Cuervo now. Some serious partying to B-52’s.
Rock Lobster, baby.
a better youtube version of being boring….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
raven– Thanks for Richard and Linda,
punaise — Thank you for the XTC and Eno
How about some Pixies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXdXcpNsv4
AP – The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein’s impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime’s atrocities.
Will our MSM be broadcasting the Bush atrocities?
Nothing new to you west coasties: X
Whip It!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDCXXvK0QE
sorry, but you did say eighties . . .
;)
Rayne @ 180
A (senior) boomer moment?
OT–I can’t seem to open UTubes–so I am not so dancing. I’d rather join the partay.
Sometimes I think about how it might be in the spirit world. Like when Nixon died and the Rwanda massacre was happening. The spirits of Nixon mixed in with all of those people. His baggage–a lot of it, them, maybe notsomuch.
Today, the spirits of Gerry and James Brown now unexpectedly there with Saddam.
I have a friend on that path now too. It is an odd time. I don’t know about the spirit world, but if there is one, I wonder about how it is there. Now.
Just love this song, usually sung after a pint of ice cream and a bottle of wine have majically dissapeared from my kitchen.
The Guess Who – These Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iKlvGcT0g
punaise @ 175
God, we listened to a lot of the same crap. What about “The Call” or Joy Division, becomming New World Order?
Mandrake, damn you, you beat me…
I was just devolving myself.
And yeah, we are slipping backwards into the 70’s now. I feel like I’m in high school all over again.
I wonder if Bush has the champagne on ice for tonight.
johnSwifty @ 186
dang, beat me to it. I was trying to find “Must Not Think Bad Thoughts”
paul at 173 — I’m getting a Pet Shop Boys video with that link. Although if you were referring to the Jennifer Holliday blockbuster from Dream Girls…it was amazing. (And, to be honest, I’m really looking forward to seeing Jennifer Hudson’s version, because her voice is also pretty damn powerful…that girl has some pipes.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 177
FiniFini — This is fabulous. I’ve copied it and put it on a page. A great story.
Elvis Costello – Veronica (Live)
Gregory Abbott (”discovered” while singing in the shower, his neighbors asked him to record, he was so good!)
Johnny Hates Jazz – Shattered Dreams
punaise @ 196
I was looking for the soundtrack to that Richard Gere classic…you know the one I mean.
Rayne @ 192
This is my fav Devo video.
I wonder if W will call Poppy Bush to tell him the deed is done. “Hey dad, the guy who tried to kill you, Saddam? He’s dead.”
mandrake @ 195
Susanna Hoffs may be the sexy-cutest lady ever.
Christy…
I was quoting Kelvin @ 61….
here is the Holloway video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4uc9b2s 1o
the PSB video is MY favorite…. :)
TeddySanFran @ 204
“Mission Accomplished.”
LindaR @ 197
How cool, thanks!
Paul, your Holloway link is broken…oops.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 202
I still have the vinyl of “Actual Size” somewhere. I’ve always thought the song “Mongoloid” would be a perfect theme song for W.
TeddySanFran @
204
hey, maybe that’ll be enough and he’ll be done with this nonsense! with any luck, poppy will say, “good boy!”
My pretty much all time favorite: “Life During Wartime.”
2000-2008. The Bush reign of terror.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 203
god, what good times!
arrrgggghhhhh!
rayne, go back to 61….Kelvin’s link works.
John Farnham * You’re The Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxgAsHfgRpk
We’re not going to live in silence
We’re not going to live in fear
LindaR @
68
Love this song still. But I just don’t get the appeal of the 80s try as I may…and I was a ‘89 high school graduate so it should be my era.
The Kate Bush video I can’t hack though. Too much interpretive dance and ever since college and this woman named Muriel’s tube-like top came down during a talent show, any shred of hope that I could ever take interpretive dance seriously is gone. It was like watching that bloopers clip of the lady on the Price’s Right whose top came down. I kept hoping there would be a Showcase Showdown…woulda helped an otherwise lackluster talent show, even with the topless dance.
bg @ 211
I put the whole “Fear of Music” album (I still call ‘em albums) in a special place outside of the realm of just “music.” It’s kinda like at the end of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency when ‘the music of the world’ has been realized as Bach — I’d replace Bach with Byrne.
What I forgot to mention in my story earlier though, was the backlash I suffered from my teachers and the principal for my activism was not pretty. For about two months I got busted for every thing slightly out of order or perceived to be against direction from authority. My gym teacher, a fantastic human being named Mr. Fox was the only one who gave me a break.
It was worth it though because I was not very well liked by my classmates prior to this incident because of being the fat kid/object of daily ridicule. When everybody saw what I went through with the teachers I didn’t have to deal with so many fat jokes or stupid shit after that all the way through 8th grade. Now that I think of it and have told the whole story here, this was kind of a defining moment in my young life.
johnSwifty @ 191
no kidding!
The Call I found tedious. definitely like some New Order, and it’s great to see their song Age of Consent used in the trailer for the film Marie Antoinette (although many critics panned the use of contemporary music in the film). something about it “works” for me.
gabriel_is @ 216
I agree, the video sideswipes the whole song for me. I had had an abortion, and for me this song expresses all my rage around that experience. Whenever I hear it, I feel like I am singing it, shrieking it at the guy I got pregnant with. It’s a very cathartic, important piece of art for me.
Renee in Ohio @ 161
No 80’s MTV retrospective would be complete without this ‘un! Good call.
One for Saddam Hussein:
Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss
Close your eyes
Look deep in your soul
Step outside yourself
And let your mind go
Frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die
And one for George W. Bush…May God have mercy on you.
Metallica – Disposable Heroes (adult language)
Back to the front,
You will do what I say, when I say,
Back to the front,
You will die when I say, you must die,
Back to the front
You coward…You servant…You blind man.
Fini — I added your update to the page. I just thought the story should be preserved somewhere!
punaise @ 219
Funny you should mention that. I just watched the trailer last night on the end of a Kate Beckinsale vampire DVD (I think Kate might beat the Bangles girl for cute), and I was intrigued with the concept…so much that I thought I might watch it. Now I know I will.
Didn’t someone do a ‘modern’ of Romeo and Juliet not long ago? (I don’t mean West Side Story)
I love this video from New Order.
Paul — yeah, Jennifer got hella pipes on her, don’t she?
Damn, she is incredible.
LindaR @ 221
Thanks, I hope it is seen by some youngster someday and inspires them to do the same. You gotta lead rebels by example.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 223
nice!
The Cure – Pictures of You
johnSwifty — I don’t know about Romeo and Juliet, but the BBC recently did an uptake on Taming of the Shrew with Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell (and Twiggy!) that is hilarious.
The Tubes – She’s a Beauty
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
John Lennon Tribute Songs:
George Harrison
Elton John
Thanks for bearing with me and bringing back some great memories, I’m through for the night.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 225
Oh, I love that! Reminds me of my all time favorite synth band “China Crisis”… [rushes off to uTube]
LindaR @ 230
What did Twiggy play? I’m going to have to see that!
China Crisis was awesome and I know they are on YouTube, I found King in a Catholic Style there before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9W7nxOeqTI
Some day you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
johnSwifty @ 233
She played Shirley Henderson’s mum.
last one before dodo time
Split Enz – Pioneer / Six Months in a Leaky Boat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yav3C4nKAY
CHINA CRISIS
Egad. I just remembered a concert I went to, Cheap Trick opened for Alice Cooper.
I think. I was pretty wasted.
Jeepers. I am getting wretchedly old…or I damaged too many brain cells.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 143
My pleasure! That’s one of my all time faves, too. They were so much fun!
I could go on all night like this, but it wouldn’t be healthy. In parting, here’s one for Christy:
The Police – One World (Not Three)
Paul — yeah, Jennifer got hella pipes on her, don’t she? Damn, she is incredible.
it wasn’t just her pipes, but her performance that blew me away. (keep in mind that the only people who had heard this song at that point were the folks who had seem Dreamgirls on Broadway….. and the opening of the sequence gives you absolutely no sense of the complete emotional devastation she brings to that song… I always felt that bringing the other three back in as a coda was a huge mistake…..)
Rayne @ 240
Old? The first concert I ever went to was forty years ago at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento. To see the Rolling Stones!
brownandserve @ 233
Wonderful Dire Straits tune. This one’s my fav though.
Fresh thread, gang.
oops – here’s the Police link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLZJ4ijtE0
Rayne @ 240
Best concert I barely remember was Jackson Browne’s Running on Empty tour. I think it was spectacular…David Lindley on lap steel…singing falsetto…some guy next to me who kept going ‘here…awesome
mandrake @ 237
I posted that on my MySpace page. That song was 20 years ahead of its time and I knew it was at the time it came out.
punaise @ 246
bye pun.
Here’s an article where the band explains the song……
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_totos_africa/
I guess it made sense to them at the time, LOL.
LindaR — nah, you’ve now reached the point where you are “classic”.
I’m at the point where my kids find me grossly uncool, the stage where suggestions or comments are rebuffed with, “Eeewww! Muh-theeerrrr!! That’s disgusting!!”
[sigh]
OK, two more for the road:
Madness – One Step beyond
The English beat – Drowning
johnSwifty @ 247
rock on….
punaise @ 252
Spandau Ballet!
BYE!
Man, those were some good times. Who knew?
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 249
Awright, time to go CD shoppin’!!
This is continued in the new thread upstairs.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 245
Ha! It taught me the name for my future condition (brewer’s droop) LOL.
Miss Edith Sedgwick VU:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdx5TkiFeA
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
Edie Sedgwick, Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Check out this explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(song)
Maybe this video from I-don’t-know-when will explain it all to you.
http://video.google.nl/videopl…..mp;q=henry rollins
It does leave room for interpretation.
Bet everyone’s forgotten this song entirely, but it’s always been a minor favorite of mine, just for the sheer fun of it:
Tommy Shaw, “Girls With Guns” (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dSxa8-LdQ
From a group that can maybe rightly be described as probably the most influential group you have never heard of “The Watts Prophets”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUoTJaXVBQ
Though this group, “The Last Poets” might be able to dispute that title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovGmbR80qg
Can’t really explain the video, but here’s a little trivia tidbit about it: the keyboardist, drummer and bass player are brothers.