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Lack of Flashback!
Jul. 28th, 2009 08:45 pmThe nice thing about sitting in an apartment with no companions but cats and no furniture but an air mattress is that I have plenty of time to catch up on my 80s videos. Fortunately, mtvmusic.com is helping (it's fascinating, isn't it? Suddenly even reality-show channels like MTV think they can somehow get into the music business). So just for the hell of it, I'll point you to four videos for which I feel no nostalgia at all, as I never saw them in the 80s, or 90s, or whenever they might have aired on a music television channel, when such things existed.
Given that many people my age can still do the "same as it ever was" dance that David Byrne introduced us to, it's hard to believe that this dance never caught on. (If I liked their music as much as I like this video, I wouldn't make people turn it off all the time.)
I didn't know this song until well after it came out, and it's pretty mournful anyway, but the video turns it into an incredibly sad funeral dirge. (Also from the artist, the worst hospital, medically speaking, in any video since the St. Elsewhere doctors moonlighted in "Good Loving".)
Almost everything The Eurythmics recorded was weird and moody, and their videos matched. I mean, pretty much every Eurythmics video was creepy: Annie Lennox as a kind of dominatrix CEO who ends up in a field with cello players and cows; Annie Lennox stalking the moors in a cloak; Annie Lennox as some sort of robotic...you know, I don't even know what the "Missionary Man" video was about. Anyway, it's all creepy and strange and possibly avant-garde, except for their one unmitigatedly boppy song, in which the only creepy thing is the leopard Annie Lennox is wearing. (I suspect that DaveThomas Stewart was probably pretty creepy in his own right, when he wanted to be, but being creepy near Annie Lennox is like trying to be tall near Yao Ming.)
And finally, a version of a song I didn't even know existed, because in America it was the Go-Go's version that got airplay. But apparently it was cowritten by a Go-Go and a Fun Boy, and overseas it was the version by the Fun Boy and his two companions that everyone knows. It's not really a cover, because it's his song too, but it's definitely different.
Anyway, enjoy. Tell Drew Barrymore and her mascara ad that I said hi.
Given that many people my age can still do the "same as it ever was" dance that David Byrne introduced us to, it's hard to believe that this dance never caught on. (If I liked their music as much as I like this video, I wouldn't make people turn it off all the time.)
I didn't know this song until well after it came out, and it's pretty mournful anyway, but the video turns it into an incredibly sad funeral dirge. (Also from the artist, the worst hospital, medically speaking, in any video since the St. Elsewhere doctors moonlighted in "Good Loving".)
Almost everything The Eurythmics recorded was weird and moody, and their videos matched. I mean, pretty much every Eurythmics video was creepy: Annie Lennox as a kind of dominatrix CEO who ends up in a field with cello players and cows; Annie Lennox stalking the moors in a cloak; Annie Lennox as some sort of robotic...you know, I don't even know what the "Missionary Man" video was about. Anyway, it's all creepy and strange and possibly avant-garde, except for their one unmitigatedly boppy song, in which the only creepy thing is the leopard Annie Lennox is wearing. (I suspect that Dave
And finally, a version of a song I didn't even know existed, because in America it was the Go-Go's version that got airplay. But apparently it was cowritten by a Go-Go and a Fun Boy, and overseas it was the version by the Fun Boy and his two companions that everyone knows. It's not really a cover, because it's his song too, but it's definitely different.
Anyway, enjoy. Tell Drew Barrymore and her mascara ad that I said hi.