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Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

1) "The Authority Song"

2 votes

2) "Desperate, but Not Serious"

1 votes

3) "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson"

0 votes

4) "Mama Said Knock You Out"

2 votes

5) "Na-Na, Hey-Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye"

2 votes

6) "Take Me Home Tonight"

2 votes

7) "To Be a Lover"

0 votes

Edgy DC Aug 01 2011 01:39 PM

In ambivalent celebration of MTV's 30th Anniversary, it's time for you to consider the unlikely event that you are marooned on a desert island, with ample sustenance and shelter to keep you until rescue comes, but nothing for entertainment --- nothing but a handful of classick music videos, and a monitor and video player with which to review them. Finding yourself in this completely odd scenario, which videos might you choose? Well, folks, before you wrestle too hard with that, let me add that your selections are limited --- as the medium itself was largely lmited, but visual themes. You get one selection from each group of videos bunched by theme. Our first group is boxing-themed videos. And so I ask you, which is your Sunday punch? (Fair warning: at least two of these vids, for me, included commercials by a Tea Party-like political lobby.) Alphabetically, we've got: 1) "The Authority Song" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]wsEwK69LXjQ[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 2) "Desperate, but Not Serious" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]iVWWtqa9-7M[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 3) "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]1t9SCHLRDoY[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 4) "Mama Said Knock You Out" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]vimZj8HW0Kg[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 5) "Na-Na, Hey-Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]E5b6UCCm7f4[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 6) "Take Me Home Tonight" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]NbhXmSBlS_U[/youtube:2a0fb5mb] 7) "To Be a Lover" [youtube:2a0fb5mb]_L9epO3tJT4[/youtube:2a0fb5mb]

Willets Point Aug 01 2011 02:57 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

I'm looking forward to the mime-themed videos contest.

Edgy DC Aug 01 2011 03:01 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

You're welcome to post such.

Edgy DC Aug 01 2011 05:55 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

Seven videos. Two votes. I see there's no love of boxing-themed music promotional videos from the eighties in this room.

TransMonk Aug 01 2011 06:54 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

JCM

metsguyinmichigan Aug 01 2011 09:14 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

I had a chance to meet Eddie Money after a show here a couple years ago. Seemed like a nice guy, and it was a fun show. Always liked this song.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 01 2011 09:15 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

metsguyinmichigan wrote: I had a chance to meet Eddie Money after a show here a couple years ago. Seemed like a nice guy, and it was a fun show. Always liked this song. Geez, though. Hardly a "boxing" video.

MFS62 Aug 01 2011 10:18 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

Hit me, beat me, take away my charge card, but I would have voted for Mellenkamp's "Hurt so good". While not exactly boxing themed, it still celebrates the infliction of pain. Later

Edgy DC Aug 02 2011 05:16 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

You folks are totally screwing yourselves out of the chance to participate in the fallout shelter-themed video contest.

MFS62 Aug 02 2011 07:16 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

Edgy DC wrote: You folks are totally screwing yourselves out of the chance to participate in the fallout shelter-themed video contest. OK, I voted. I'm dying to see what songs will be nominated for that contest. BTW- did you consider Hit Me With Your Best Shot for this poll? Later

Edgy DC Aug 02 2011 07:20 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

I don't believe that song featured a boxing-themed video.

metirish Aug 02 2011 07:27 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

"The Authority Song"

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 04 2011 09:51 PM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

Bombastic assault undercut by the jokey "mom's basement" bumpers... LL's video mirrors the song perfectly. Of course it's a boxing video. How could it not be a boxing video?

Fman99 Aug 05 2011 04:00 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

This is like being asked which is the best-tasting turd.

Edgy DC Aug 05 2011 07:38 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

Why's that?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 05 2011 07:43 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

I'm the only Adam Ant voter. I kinda liked that rat-rat-rat drumming. As said above the Eddie Money one really isn't a boxing video. I'm sure he was on tour at that place when they shot it, and Ronnie's obviously on a soundstage somewhere else.

Edgy DC Aug 05 2011 08:03 AM Re: Desert Island Videos: What's Your Sunday Punch?

The whole point of that video is the payoff in revealing that the woman casting that banging silhouette is a (gasp!) 42-year-old soul legend. You think they used a body double or other trickery in those shots at the end where the two actually appear together? I'm sure it's largely an issue of the stars never being available to shoot together, but video directors back then always seemed to have a hangup of black and white artists singing a romantic duet to each other, somehow keeping them separated. And heck, Ronnie Spector seems clearly mixed-race anyhow. My thinking is that, if you're singing from inside a boxing ring, you're in a boxing video. But yeah, on retrospect, he's in an amphitheater built for boxing, on a platform built to support a boxing ring, but the ropes and mat aren't in place and we don't have the signature mic suspended from the ceiling. Strange thing about "Desperate, but not Serious" is that it's billed as "Adam Ant" but it still has the great big sound of "Adam & the Ants," with the horns and with the doubling down on the tribal drums. It's like he didn't go solo so much as he just changed the billing to change the cut between him and the band, and anybody who didn't like it could leave and get nothing, so they just fell away until he was down to a four-piece. His guitarist, Marco Pirroni, stuck around until Adam's show ran it's course (and Adam started going a little crazy) and then went on to head Sinead O'Connor's band.