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Johnny Dickshot Mar 05 2007 08:32 AM

These fellas might be criticized for going over the top but they sure didn't with this video.

metirish Mar 05 2007 09:38 AM

Great music,I just could never get into the guys voice...I heard this song two different times over the weekend....classic video..

Edgy DC Mar 05 2007 12:28 PM

More videos should be like "Limelight." Rather than the band miming the song they take footage from them recording it and try to synch performance footage. Rush keeps it real, and they get context out of things like the northern tundra outside the studio window. I like the editing back and forth from bassplaying Getty to singing Getty to keyboarding Getty. I like how Pat Benetar's pimp is so intimidated by the jiggly dance.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 05 2007 01:03 PM

Mark Prindle's hilarious review of the song: ]My favorite one is "Limelight," the normal everyday man's reaction to being a member of a top-selling hard rock act. And what is his overriding emotion? Jubilation like David Lee Roth? Nope. Self-pity like Kurt Cobain? Nope! Neil looks at the phenomenon head-on, as a mature human being would, and tries to see it exactly as it is: "Living on the lighted stage approaches the unreal for those who think and feel in touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage/Cast in this unlikely role, ill-equipped to act with insufficient tact one must put up barriers to keep oneself intact. Living in the limelight, the universal dream for those who wish to seem. Those who wish to BE must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination - the real relation, the underlying theme. Living in a fisheye lens caught in the camera eye, I have no heart to lie. I can't pretend a stranger is a long-awaited friend. All the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers - each another's audience outside the gilded cage." See? Now that's SMART! Every line in that song is thought out carefully, yet somehow it still rhymes. Do you see what he's saying? He's just a GUY, but he accepts that he is part of something that has drawn an audience of appreciators, just as he is an appreciator of other's talents. So he just gets on with it, doing his work - neither getting angry and bitching about the paparazzi nor bragging that showbiz is his life and he's the greatest drummer there ever was. He even admits his weak spots - having to put up barriers and not being able to be "Mr. Cheerful" to excited fans all the time. I like this Peart fellow! Bring him over for dinner or some bullshit.

metirish Mar 05 2007 01:11 PM

That's the first time I have read the lyrics to that song,as I'm reading the song is playing in my head,great stuff.

Edgy DC Mar 05 2007 01:47 PM

It's such a throwback to the Almost Famous seventies, when every touring act had a song about the peaks and valleys of being in a touring act, to be played to the throngs fantisizing about being in a touring act. Only --- damn right --- it's smarter.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 19 2007 11:56 AM

I haven't any reflections on the video since I just now leaqrned it existed, but always thought this was a real crazy song. You gotta be crazy CAHNfident, to pull off this kinda falsetto yodeling Mexican country surf rock song that gets the ladies in the mood. They won't let me embed it. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDGrC1rOADk[/url]

Edgy DC Mar 20 2007 09:02 PM

Chis Isaak had the handicap of a breakthrough hit that was so overwhelming that it just became synonymous with his name. He made plenty of other fine music and peeps only wanted to hear the wicked and the game. Relect on the original "Two Hearts."

metirish Mar 20 2007 09:11 PM

Just love this song and a cool vid for four cool guys.

seawolf17 Mar 20 2007 09:11 PM

Nothing much to reflect, except that Phil Collins can write a catchy pop tune -- and this is the original "Two Hearts."

Edgy DC Mar 20 2007 09:13 PM

Rank your "Two Hearts" records: "Two Hearts" --- Chris Isaak "Two Hearts" --- The Jayhawks "Two Hearts Beat as One" --- U2 "Two of Hearts" --- Stacy Q "Two Hearts" --- Phil Collins (from the Buster soundtrack!)

Johnny Dickshot Mar 20 2007 09:41 PM

1. "Two Hearts" --- Chris Isaak -- Starts like a typical bittersweet heartbreak song, then piles on one surprise after the next: The odd Casiotone countermelody, the flashing tone on the hollow guitar, and how that morphs into a snippet resembling the backbeat to "La Bamba," then the falsetto, then the dramatic final-verse key change ripped from the Neil Diamond playbook. What an accomplishment! 2. "Two Hearts Beat as One" --- U2 3. "Two Hearts" --- The Jayhawks 4. "Two of Hearts" --- Stacy Q --Reminds me of college 5. "Two Hearts" --- Phil Collins (from the Buster soundtrack!)

Edgy DC Mar 20 2007 09:44 PM

Jayhawks sold short. Look at U2 mug on that one. Did you know Gary Louris wrote a song for the soundtrack of Wordplay? Well, it's true, he did! Check out his little Archies tossoff:

Gwreck Mar 20 2007 09:47 PM

Not that I want to influence anybody's thoughts on this but there has been recently uncovered audio footage of a U2 in-studio performance on October 26, 2000 in which Bono states that he wants the Yankees to win. So what might be ordinarily my #1 choice is at least temporarily dead to me.

metirish Mar 20 2007 09:50 PM

You'd think Bono would be rooting for a team like the Royals.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 27 2007 08:55 AM

I want my Jayhawks to harmonize until it hurts. Have a nice day, is all I have to say with this one. How could you not?

Willets Point Apr 25 2007 02:44 PM

This song is a guilty pleasure of mine. I seem to remember the video being better than this. In fact, I remember it entirely different, more psychedelic. Perhaps there are two versions. Anyhow, it's nothing more than a good excuse to look at this woman's beautiful green eyes.

OlerudOwned Apr 26 2007 08:44 PM

of Montreal is a band based in Athens, Georgia. The Brothers Chaps, creators of Homestar Runner and now music video directors, live in Atlanta, and one of them is a graduate of the University of Georgia. That they all met up is probably the only thing is this video that makes sense. Kevin Barnes sure does love his eye makeup.

Edgy DC Apr 26 2007 08:48 PM

Somewhere, Todd Rundgren is yelling, "Yes! Yes!"

Johnny Dickshot Apr 26 2007 09:18 PM

Weird. Calico? Chemical?

Willets Point Apr 26 2007 09:19 PM

If someone told you that a model-turned-actress decided to record an album based on poems she wrote as a teenager, you'd probably say "OMG, that must be the worst self-indulgent crap pop music ever!" Surprisingly, Milla Jovovich's 1994 album The Divine Comedy is an excellent collection of introspective folk songs with lush orchestration and Milla's ethereal vocals. The video for the single "The Gentleman Who Fell" is also pretty creative, apparently inspired by the surrealist films of Luis Brunuel and Salvador Dali.

Johnny Dickshot Apr 26 2007 09:33 PM

Wow, easily a decade since I'd heard that one. I never put it together that the singer was same actress in that weird Bruce Willis in Outer Space movie. But slammin bod all the same. I like that song and the video is totally metsmerizing.

Edgy DC Apr 26 2007 09:41 PM

That's song --- and the album largely also --- is like highly Enya-derivative, but somehow stood out anyway. Good grab.

Johnny Dickshot May 01 2007 09:15 AM

I was gonna give Midnight Oil their own Important Poll, but that can wait. Enjoy this blistering live performance of "Hercules" a song that only appeared on an EP (and subsequent compilations) but shoulda been a huge hit, prolly. Love this song. Look at em go!

cooby May 04 2007 07:21 PM

I don't care how old, how big , how slow these girls get. I still love them

Willets Point May 04 2007 07:53 PM

Cooby! Yay!

Kid Carsey May 04 2007 08:10 PM

I don't know that much about Midnight Oil other than having and liking Diesel and Dust and Blue Sky Mining. I give the video a phwam and look forward to an important poll one week.

Johnny Dickshot May 04 2007 08:17 PM

I'd bet against "Alone" scoring many points in a Very Important Poll.

Herb Gardner May 05 2007 06:47 AM

cooby May 05 2007 07:20 AM

Fascinating

Willets Point May 05 2007 10:45 AM

10 posts over a year and a half and I think half of them are blank. Herb Gardner intrigues me.

Iubitul May 05 2007 12:56 PM

cooby wrote: I saw Heart in concert ages ago, with the Eagles and the Little River Band, and Ann had one of the greatest female rock voices ever... I don't care how old, how big , how slow these girls get. I still love them

soupcan May 05 2007 03:37 PM

Willets Point wrote: 10 posts over a year and a half and I think half of them are blank. Herb Gardner intrigues me. I think he's too cool for us, but wants to inspire us to be cooler. Like Fonzie and Richie sort of.

cooby May 05 2007 05:49 PM

I guess that would make me Joanie Really, Herb, if you don't like Heart just say so

Benjamin Grimm May 05 2007 05:54 PM

Willets Point wrote: Cooby! Yay! Yay!

Johnny Dickshot May 18 2007 08:11 PM

Crappy picture but cool video and, I think, a cool song that balances the throwaway dancepop and the faux-Cajun ballad sound of the forgotten band that opened Live Aid:

Batty31 May 18 2007 08:19 PM

The Hooters!!! Excellent choice!!!

Edgy DC May 19 2007 12:38 PM

Hooters did some bouncy presentations, didn't they? They were also under the impression that televangelicals were all white. That could be part of a future Very Important Poll of top eighties songs taking televangelists to task, along with Dancing Hoods: "Puppet Dancing" (actually, their entire Hallelujah Anyway album) Thrashing Doves: "Jesus on the Payroll" Genesis: "Talking to Jesus" Talking Heads: "Puzzlin' Evidence" Young Fresh Fellows: "Amy Grant" There are other obvious ones I'm not thinking of.

Johnny Dickshot May 19 2007 08:09 PM

They were bouncy, and televangelism was definitely an easy topic for 80s bands to go after, though it seemed like the Hooters had a certain knack for writing songs that dealt with religion, probably to their detriment. "All You Zombies" had something to do with the old testament ("Yeah! They were the Isrealites!") and they also wrote Joan Osbourne's "(What if God was) "One of Us." The blonde Head Hooter (Hyman) was a Jew and the other guy (Bazilian) was not a jew. They were students at Penn. I can't stress how strenuously the Philly radio stations blew these guys back in the day. When I was a freshman in college down there everyone in my dorm -- even the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, pinheads, dweebs, wonkers and richies -- owned a copy of the below independent album, about 3/4ths of which was re-recorded and released as the Nervous Night debut on Columbia which spawned a buncha hit singles and a lotta "best new artist" crap. Reading up now they are recently reunited, releasing a new record next month, and aunching a tour of Germany where they're evidently still big.

Edgy DC May 19 2007 10:13 PM

During the pre-game routine at the Vet, they'd play a bunch of songs that referenced Philadelphia, including such jingoist anthems as Bruce Springsteen's "Philadelphia" ("Yeah! As far as towns to die of AIDS in, Philly rawks!") Elton and Bernie's "Philadelphia Freedom" ("Yeah! This song makes no sense at all!") and the below referenced awful Hooters song, more than likely commissioned by the city's tourist bureau. You lived on Vine Street I lived at home The music was all that we had of our own No satisfaction, no dance in my car But I had the keys to the world in my beat up guitar With my beat up guitar You and I will ride away From the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA Kensington Station, we sat on the tracks I wrote you a song The one you knew it was flat You laughed when they told me You won't get too far If you spend the rest of your life with that beat up guitar With my beat up guitar You and I will ride away From the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA And I may leave this place tomorrow But my soul is here to stay In the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA You can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El You can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El You can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El You can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El Oh you can't get to Heaven on the Frankford El Cause the Frankford El goes straight to Frankford It's just another stop til I find my destination With my beat up guitar You and I will ride away From the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA And with that beat up guitar We're coming home again someday To the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA And I may leave this place tomorrow But my soul is here to stay In the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA In the town that rocked the nation Philadelphia, PA

Johnny Dickshot May 20 2007 09:22 AM

Yeah that's embarrassing. I never before in my life gave any thought to what Philadelphia Freedom meant. Wikipedia says it was written for Billie Jean King who played on a tennis team of the same name. Whipporwill of freedom? I used to be a rolling stone You know if the cause was right I'd leave to find the answer on the road I used to be a heart beating for someone But the times have changed The less I say the more my work gets done `Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom From the day that I was born I've waved the flag Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man Yeah gave me peace of mind my daddy never had Oh Philadelphia freedom shine on me, I love you Shine a light through the eyes of the ones left behind Shine a light shine a light Shine a light won't you shine a light Philadelphia freedom I love you, yes I do If you choose to you can live your life alone Some people choose the city Some others choose the good old family home I like living easy without family ties Till the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me Right between the eyes

cooby May 21 2007 08:08 PM

Living in Pennsylvania in 1976 was actually pretty cool, lotsa fun stuff happened, and Philadelphia Freedom fit right in with the celebration. I love the song and it always takes me back. Here's my favorite Rod Stewart song, with a very low key video. But really, the song's so full of wisdom and a friend's compassion, who needs pictures? I've waited a lot time to hear it again.

Edgy DC May 21 2007 08:25 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 22 2007 10:21 AM

I'd like to do one of those Sunday morning opinion-makers round table shows, but intead of journalists I'd have a panel of scratchy-throated singers of note. Rod Stewart Paul Westerberg Kim Carnes Tom Waits Bonnie Tyler

Willets Point May 22 2007 10:09 AM

And Shane McGowan. Just don't make it too early in the morning.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 15 2007 08:42 AM

NO IMPORTANT POLL THIS WEEK (at least from me. I'm not really inspired!) But ... enjoy Lou Reed doing the rockabilly! Fun song, makes me dance!

Edgy DC Jun 15 2007 08:57 AM

Pretty cool how she blows off Wannabe Springsteen to dance with Lou at the end. Lou's brief "I Loves You, Suzanne" comeback triggered one of the most shocking of sellouts.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 15 2007 09:10 AM

The annoying new "what's related" window leads to a Devo scooters ad. I don't recall either of those.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 09 2007 07:18 PM

This video is so good I refuse to believe it's as old as the song it accompanies. What band did performance videos shot this well? What 1980s video director would refuse the chance to to load his video, of this song especially, with cheesy destructive effects and bad acting? That the song rocks ass goes without saying:

DocTee Jul 09 2007 07:47 PM

I don't think there are any Russians, and there ain't no Yanks...just corporate criminals, playing with tanks. I love this song-- that line especially. And that keyboardist rocks!

Batty31 Jul 09 2007 08:00 PM

OH WOW! I haven't heard that song in ages. I forgot how good it is....thanks so much for posting it.

Edgy DC Jul 09 2007 08:29 PM

I think about The Call all the time. Michael Been had a great voice, a baritone, but comfortable wailing up in his tenor range. (He's one of the singers backing up on "In Your Eyes." They had opened for Peter Gabriel on the acclaimed "Shock the Monkey" tour.) Great singles from The Call, though never a great album, that I found. This one goes along with Cheap Trick's "If You Want My Love" and the Pretenders' "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" in the category of Videos Shot on Sets That Look Like or Actually Were Fallout Shelters. Maybe "Bette Davis Eyes," too. I'll have to check. It was commentary on the times, whether or not it was relevant to the theme of the song, like it certainly was with "The Walls Came Down." My smartass friend Eric called the keyboardist "Dad," as if the band said, "Hey Dad, we're shooting a video out back in the shelter; want to come?" In fact, as I'm sure Frayed Knot would tell you, that's a guest appearance by the legendary Garth Hudson, of the even more legendary The Band.

Vic Sage Jul 10 2007 09:39 AM

cool song... he sounds a bit like David Byrne, dontcha think?

Johnny Dickshot Jul 10 2007 10:38 AM

If David Byrne could sing, maybe.

Edgy DC Jul 10 2007 11:22 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 01 2007 09:32 PM

Another thing Michael Been has going for him that David Byrne does not is that Byrne is a nu wave singer, and however impassioned he is, he's detached. Those singers descend largely from Bowie, with a Cold War/1984-inspired brokenness. Been is part of the new yearning, rock singers again drawing fron their soul idols --- still longing with a spiritual fire, despite that bomb hanging over their heads. Gabriel is a rare one in that he was dancing in both camps at the time, chilingly detached in "Games Without Froniers," and kicking the doors down in firey protest in "Shock the Monkey."

Willets Point Jul 12 2007 08:46 PM

I just can't hide the fact that I'm a Shirley Bassey fan. This is awesome!

Edgy DC Aug 01 2007 09:37 PM

Sinead has too much makeup and, frankly, too much Shane. There's this wink, with that transcendental theme of the chorus betrayed by bubblegum boy-meets-girl verses. The verses also fumble around a bit melodically, almost never coalescing around a recognizeable theme, but then, Shane probably couldn't sustain a melodic theme anyhow, so Sinead plays along and fumbles too, as if that's all there is. That isn't all there is. This is as fine a song despite the enigma that is Shane, as much as it is because of it.

Edgy DC Aug 02 2007 10:01 AM

Top five means of hiding Shane's terrifying visage from potential record buyers. 5. Wide angle shots, contrasting with the closeups on Sinead. 4. Big black shades. 3. A big fat old-fashioned mic to obscure the dental disaster. 2. Seating him at an upright piano, which makes straight-on shots impossible, forcing him to be shot in profile. 1. Shadows, shadows, shadows.

metirish Aug 03 2007 05:45 PM

Hiding Shane might be impossible,wasn't "Haunetd" originally recorded with Cait O'Reardon? Love this lost classic from Radiohead.

Edgy DC Aug 12 2007 06:00 AM

Bruce Springsteen has done many videos with John Sayles, plus others directed by Brian DePalma, Tim Robbins, and Jonathan Demme. Some are more memorable than others, some live up to the songs better than others, but the masterpiece of the lot is this one, directed by Meiert Avis (who?) and shot largley on the St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans. The brilliance of it is that this whole pageant of human life is playing out before him, but he's so alienated that its like a movie, he can laugh and cry at it, but he can't touch it or enter into it in a meaningful way. Towards the end, some clumsy editing makes it look like he hits a guitar windmill so powerful that it makes his vest disintigrate.

SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 12:31 PM

Thats a good one, but this one is a classic as well. Everything dies Baby thats a fact. And maybe everything that dies Someday comes back. Put your makeup on Put your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Meet me tonight in Atlantic City...

SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 12:41 PM

While doing my Cubbie Anthem poll I was looking for that video of Steve Goodman "covering" his own tune that was made famous by Arlo Guthrie, and a decade later by Willie Nelson. The song called "The City of New Orleans" Anyway I found this video of the song that Johnny Cash did. Cash never did release the song as a single but he did sing it from time to time live.

SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 01:56 PM

BTW, did some digging, and that footage was from a TV program called "Ridin' The Rails: The Great American Train Story" done in 1974. Which also explains why the song has about 2 minutes cut from it. Good morning America, how are ya say don't ya know me I'm your native son I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans And I'll be gone 500 miles the day is done

SteveJRogers Aug 12 2007 02:09 PM

I'm in a Cash mood right now Sunday Morning Coming Down debuts on The Johnny Cash show, with about a minute and 15 second preamble. Great video footage though. Done about a year before his death, Hurt A great "bio video" as it includes images of various Cash TV and movie projects through the years.

cooby Aug 13 2007 07:18 PM

I love this song, and the video is very similar to another song I love, Hey Hey Hey Goodbye. Be my guest to play it many times

Johnny Dickshot Sep 20 2007 07:50 AM

Here's a Classick(R) that's like getting kicked in the crotch by a boot of the 1980s. Wearing the boot is that chick who lived down the hall and dressed in black and ate at the dining hall by herself. Then you became her boyfriend and when you broke up, you still had this tape which once belonged to her. This song foreshadowed the scary future we live in today! That weird chick in black is now an executive at an insurance company and mother of 4 who listens to Clay from American Idol! And the Machine swallows all truths!

cooby Sep 22 2007 06:11 PM

I heard this song the other day on the radio; it took me back to 1983 when I was pregnant with my daughter and I loved it so much that I thought about naming her Rio. I wrote to her a few minutes ago and asked her what she thought about almost being named Rio! Can't wait to hear her response :) I still love it to pieces.

Edgy DC Sep 22 2007 06:21 PM

Reflections on "Rio": I wonder why they did this sexy artistic video and speckled it with corny pratfall comedy. It detracts. Do you think John Taylor and Nick Rhoads really played those saxes? All those ahead-of-their-time production values you got in Duran videos, you'd think they'd've used real phones and not toys. Do you think that was the yacht Simon LeBon sunk?

cooby Sep 22 2007 06:28 PM

Yep, the video wasn't what I was expecting...(don't remember it at all except the boat stuff) but here's the notes that accompanied it on YouTube Duran Duran travelled to the island of Antigua with director Russell Mulcahy in May of 1982 to film the vivid music video for "Rio", where the yacht scenes were filmed on the bay at English Harbour, the beach scenes at Miller's Beach, and the bit with the raft at Shirley Heights. They also filmed a video for the album track "Waiting for the Nightboat" at the time, and both appeared on the Duran Duran video album released in 1983. "Rio" featured iconic images of the band in Antony Price suits, singing and playing around on a yacht speeding over the crystal blue Caribbean Sea. Short segments show band members trying to live out their assorted daydreams, only to be teased, tormented, and made fools of by a body-painted vixen. The London model in the video is credited as "Reema", Reema was a model for Models One agency, of half english, half lebanese origin]. Nick Rhodes was reportedly dreadfully seasick during the filming, and has often said "I hate boats unless they're tied up and you're having cocktails on them

Edgy DC Sep 22 2007 06:41 PM

According to wikipedia, a session player did the sax solo (one Andy Hamilton). Anybody I know who has seen the band has reported that they handle the solo with either a harmonica, a synth, or both. Russell Mulcahy was the first high-profile auteur of music videos, overseeing most of Duran catalog, plus high-profile groundbreaking videos like "Video Killed the Radio Star," "Bette Davis Eyes," "Turning Japanese," and Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy," among many other recognizeable clips. He's as responsible as anybody for elevating the form from a mere promotional medium into an art form in its own right. That's why I think the goofy pratfalls are... goofy. OE: Checking his profile, he's currently on the box office charts as director of Resident Evil: Extinction.

cooby Oct 06 2007 07:30 PM

Somebody once told me that ABBA couldn't speak a work of English; they memorized the English lyrics to their songs but were otherwise helpless. Watching their videos, I suppose it's easy to believe. Still, they were a nice group, with some good songs. Had a hard time deciding which one to feature here, but we watched a cute Tommy Lee Jones movie the other night that had this one in it.

cooby Oct 22 2007 06:14 PM

This, I think, is the most beautiful song ever written. Yes, it's long (it takes two videos) and yes it's classical. You don't have to listen, it's for me to come back to. I can't find my Dvorak CD :(

Edgy DC Oct 24 2007 08:43 AM

If Richard Lester was directing music videos in 1990, they might have looked like this:

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 24 2007 08:51 AM

I don't know who Richard Lester is, much less the band, but that was a good song.

Edgy DC Oct 24 2007 09:12 AM

Dick Lester: British director of A Hard Day's Night (still Roger Ebert's favorite film apparatently) and Help!, as well as other farces of the era. Something Happens!: Briefly held the bottom rung on my Top Ten Celtic Soul-Rock Crossover Bands of the Eighties. Were knocked off (by In Tua Nua, I think) based on their brief run being mostly post 12/31/89. That song is maybe what the Hooters would've sounded like if they rocked as much as they appeared to think they did.

Willets Point Dec 01 2007 10:51 PM

Boatloads of gems in this Post-punk video collection.

Edgy DC Dec 29 2007 09:05 PM

Bald punks are positive punks and these punks came up with something cool here, even if the video sticks to one set and one performance. Carbon/Silicon features Mick Jones (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Big Audio Dynamite II) and Tony James (Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik) on guitars, Leo Williams (Big Audio Dynamite) on bass, and Dominic Greensmith (Reef) on drums. They basically give away all their music, which may explain the budget of this video. Still, the song made me happy as I drove through Jersey this morning. The video adds to my smiles.

seawolf17 Dec 29 2007 09:10 PM

Reef! I love Reef. "Place Your Hands" is one of my favorite songs ever. Video's kinda dumb, but it's one of those songs I love turning up LOUD.

Edgy DC Dec 30 2007 11:20 AM

That Reef video demands more reflections. It's sort of proof that, after two beers, anybody can be a lead singer. I particularly like his frequent use of the pooping pose.

OlerudOwned Dec 30 2007 12:16 PM

Kool.

AG/DC Jan 18 2008 07:59 AM

Kool is a reflection, if a brief one. This is a only partially memorable nu wave single. What makes this strange is the rarely broadcast Terry Gilliam-knockoff prologue. Not too many acts would put prologues on their videos, but rather cut straight to the music. Phil Collins did because he thought it gave him a chance to be funny. It just gave me a chance to change the channel. Springsteen did on "I'm on Fire" because it gave him a chance to extend the song's 1:58 running time. These guys try and be clever and artsy. End up not quite either, but it's a good time capsule on what passed for clever and artsy among American pop nu wavers of the time. Embddeing is disabled on this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRUUZ8u9HSk

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 18 2008 08:39 AM

What's He Got. Na-na-na-na-na-NA-na, na-na-naaaa.... Love it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 18 2008 01:35 PM

I'd have sworn this guy was gonna be big. MC Hammer big.

AG/DC Feb 01 2008 02:05 PM

This was from Lloyd Cole's first album after moving to New York from Britain. Like Joe Jackson, coming to America may have refueled his creative juices but also underscored how British his sensibilities were. This has a lot of elements of a good JJ video --- pretty girls with too much makeup and underscoring their vulnerability, a hotel setting, hotel staff wearing very formal and clean costumes, and fantasy romance.

AG/DC Feb 03 2008 06:25 PM

I stumbled upon this one looking for footage of Mike Campbell, Petty's really awesome guitatrist. I never heard of the band (the Sand Rubies), but Campbell produced this track. It's from 1993, an era when --- despite the merciless rule of grunge --- "Hey Jealousy" and "Ruanway Train" briefly made it kind of cool again to sound like Tom Petty and the HB. Unfortunately it wasn't as cool to dress like Art Garfunkle. Players Gus Bell for Frank Thomas and Rick Herrscher Players Term of Service Ended 5/12/1964 4/5/1966 1962 Term of Service Ended Win Shares 1.6 12.6 0 Win Shares $ $? $? $? $ Avg $ $? $? $? Avg $

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 06 2008 08:37 AM

Is nobody going to point this out?

AG/DC Feb 06 2008 08:56 AM

Bad. Try this.

seawolf17 Feb 07 2008 07:38 AM

Wasn't sure if I should stick this into the "listening NOW" thread or here, but I found this thread first, so here you go. It's "27 Jennifers," an old Mike Doughty (ex-Soul Coughing) song that he dusted off and rerecorded for his new album, which comes out next month. Catchy as hell, like everything he's ever done.

soupcan Feb 07 2008 07:43 AM

I've heard that a few times already on the 'Spectrum' channel on SIRIUS. It is catchy.

AG/DC Feb 10 2008 10:14 AM

I'll give you catchy, sucka.

themetfairy Feb 10 2008 10:25 AM

="AG/DC"]I'll give you catchy, sucka. I'm going to have nightmares about that one!

Willets Point May 02 2008 11:41 PM

Holy crap, look what I've unearthed! Watch this video and submit your nominations for worst hair crime and worst dancing.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 13 2008 09:26 AM

Animotion might have killed this thread for 6 months, but here's a funny song, goofy fan-made video for ya: The man is a genius.

cooby Nov 13 2008 06:36 PM

Willets Point wrote: Holy crap, look what I've unearthed! Watch this video and submit your nominations for worst hair crime and worst dancing. wow, that was bad! Cute song though. Can anyone tell me why it makes me think of Sammy Khalifa?

Edgy DC Nov 13 2008 08:10 PM

Holy raiding the costume shop, Batman. Hideous bedspread.

cooby Dec 01 2008 09:36 PM

Trolling for old favorite songs again. Comments on outfits accepted.

Edgy DC Dec 01 2008 09:47 PM

Clearly they came straight to Ed Sullivan from the the Erroll Flynn Convention. Funny how Ed drops a "damned" in there. Funnier still how the poster edited her voice out for most of the second half. It's not like there was a lot to feature from the Pips. Their dance steps, though, watch out. I find false eyelashes to be scary things.

Willets Point Dec 01 2008 09:58 PM

Creepy, ... and yet. Who knew animal mascots could me so emotionally expressive.