The 80s: Age 7 through 17
Wow. If you’re my age you’re going to totally suffer some productivity loss playing with this MASSIVE list of links to 80s music videos on YouTube. (Yes, the page is in Spanish. No, it won’t be a problem for you.)
Also, you will probably want me to remind you about the site that makes it easy to download these videos…
I can’t comment on the list–it’s waaaaaaaaaaay too big. However, I can select a few links, almost at random, from the first few letters of the alphabet and comment on them.
Wow, I’m Totally Downloading This
- Boomtown Rats - Don’t Like Mondays
- I bet you didn’t know that Bob Geldof’s autobiography is one of three biographies I have read. I wish there was a video for Diamond Smiles.
- Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
- You know, after seeing the Junkies in concert at U of T during my high school years, I kind of had a crush on Margo. I actually ran into her at a club (also in Toronto) on a different occasion, and managed to not make an ass of myself. Plus, it’s a Velvet Underground tune.
- Elvis Costello - Veronica
- Surely this needs no explanation.
Friday Night Videos
- A-HA - Take on me
- The classic 80s video. And, the style of the visuals was classic enough that it still looks good.
- Aerosmith - Janie’s Got A Gun
- I remember that the week this album came out I was invited to a party at the college. I was still in high school, but worked at a restaurant with some girls from the college, who were having a party in residence, and I got invited. One of the girls just kept playing this song over and over and over. I didn’t mind, because she was a cute college girl and I was a geeky sixteen year old.
- Alan Parson’s Project - Don’t Answer Me
- This video is totally Friday Night Videos, from the days before we got MuchMusic and Erica Ehm.
- Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
- I actually helped with sound when she played in at the Arts Centre on this tour. By “helped with sound” I mean–got in free to the show, and got to hear the sound check, because I knew the guy who was working sound (from that same restaurant with the college girls). My strongest impression is that she was incredibly foul-mouthed during the sound check.
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- The apotheosis of hair pop-metal. Also, if Derek Winch ever reads this, he should be retroactively embarrased for how much he liked this at the time.
They Made a Video For That?
- Accept - Balls to the Wall
- At age sixteen, while backpacking around Europe, I caught Ozzy Osbourne’s No Rest For The Wicked tour while I was in Milan. These guys opened. Italian metal-heads loved this song.
- David Hasselhoff - Looking For Freedom
- German music fans have even more questionable taste than the Italian metal-heads.
- Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
- I’ve actually been listening to this a lot this week. I had no idea there was ever a video.
- Dio - Holy Diver
- I own three Dio CDs, another product of my misspent youth. Somehow I managed to avoid realizing that Ronnie James Dio is actually some kind of evil pixie.
Ben
May 24th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
I’m going to have Hasselhoff stuck in my head all evening. I feel dirty.
May 24th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
I didn’t make you click it.
Besides, putting Hasselhoff sounds in your head is much nicer than putting something like this in there.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Oh no you don’t. Fool me once…
Well… [click]
Oh my god, my eyes!
May 25th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
It turns out that scrubbing your eyes doesn’t help.
I’m thinking that trepanning might let the terror out of my brain…
May 27th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Well I speak spanish and I lived through the 80s but I’m not interested in the music, but thanks for the tip about grabbing video.
May 29th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
I think trepanning David Hasselhoff may be called for after this:
http://www.pepsi.com.au/v3/hoff.htm