80s Video Friday: Thriller

Too soon?

80s Video Friday: It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (2003 Digital Remaster) - R.E.M.

Snow! On October 16th!

80s Video Friday: Can't Fight This Feeling

I'm posting this to celebrate the collective man-gasm that will boil over this weekend as the first Sunday of the NFL season arrives. FUCK. YES. That kind of emotion is summed up best by REO Speedwagon.

During the opening vocals, doesn't Kevin Cronin look like Peggy Olsen from Mad Men?

80s Video Friday: New England, The Patriots and We

Preseason football is finally over (thank God and did you see Matthew Slater's arm last night? BLEGH!). To celebrate the return of the Pats, I dug up this little ditty.

A few questions and comments that tickled my brain-mush as I watched this:

The stuffed bear hostage cracks me up every time.

"The Patriots and we"?? Who wrote that line? It sounds like olde English. "The Patriots and me" didn't sound better?

I like how they get all of the lyrics out of the way upfront then just play the "NEW ENGLAND! THE PATRIOTS AND WE!" chorus with random shots of overexcited massholes for the remainder of the song.

That guy on the left at the 1:58 mark is waaaay to into this. Relax dude.

Why are all of the players wearing MTV hats?

Has Mike Lynch aged at all in the past 23 years?

If you watched that entire video, good luck getting that song out of your head for the next three days.

Happy Labor Day!

80s Video Friday: Rock You Like a Hurricane

I tried to find something titled "Rock You Like a Tropical Storm Named Danny" but no such luck.

80s Video Friday: The Final Countdown

First Fantasy Football Draft of the season this weekend. Football season is almost here!

80s Video Friday: Sledgehammer

Holy crap we're having a rough spell at the blog. But fear not! A video with a semen-based intro! And stop-motion animation!

80s Video Friday: The Wizard

Wizard Staffing in progress!!

(kind of a cop out, but I've been drinking)

80s Video Friday: I Wanna Go Back

Pretty much sums up my feelings after returning from kickass vacation to another Goddamn monsoon in Boston.

80s Video Friday: Thriller

It's only appropriate to dedicate this week's 80s Video Friday to The Greatest Music Video Ever Made. And let's face it, no music video will top this, ever. It was groundbreaking when it came out and it also features choreographed zombies. Do you know how hard it is to get zombies to do anything else besides aimlessly meander around in search of brains?

80s Video Friday: In the Air Tonight

In honor of The Hangover (if you haven’t seen that movie yet, go this weekend, seriously), I’d like to dedicate this week’s 80s Video Friday to a song featured in the movie, Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight.



What’s great about this song is how closely it’s tied to the 80’s pastel-laden hit series Miami Vice. The song was originally used for the pilot episode, one of the first instances a hit song was featured in a network television series. After watching that, I totally want to rent a black Ferrari and drive around South Beach at 4:00am (shotgun-toting sidekick optional).



And while we’re on the topic of Miami Vice, how disappointing was the recent remake a few years ago? From the trailer alone, it seemed like it would be a killer movie but then when you actually sat down and watched it? Ugh. “Ok, Michael Mann, I get it, Miami has some nice skylines. Please let’s get on with the movie already.” No lie, I fell asleep twice (twice!) during that goddamn movie.

80s Video Friday: High Enough

High Enough - Damn Yankees

Now, I don't have any hard evidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if Ted Nugent has bow-hunted actual humans before. Kinda like the movie Hard Target.

80s Video Friday: Separate Ways

Journey - Separate Ways

Did somebody mention imaginary instruments?

80s Video Friday: Goodnight Saigon

Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

With Memorial Day on Monday, this song just felt right. Thanks to all the troops.

(I also feel like I'd be doing an incredible disservice if I didn't post this in conjunction with Will Ferrell's stirring rendition last week on SNL. Great episode across the board, by the way.)

80s Video Friday: Treat Your Mother Right

In honor of all the mothers out there this weekend.

80s Video Friday: No Easy Way Out

Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out -

The parallels between Rocky and the Celtics are pretty hard to ignore.

The champion with one last thing to prove against a young upstart. Having already suffered two crippling losses (Mick = KG, Appolo = Powe), the champion is looking deep inside to pull off one last big win (which actually won't be the last big win since there are still 2 more sequels and 3 more playoff rounds, but whatever). It's reached a critical mass and all that's left is the main event (just as soon as he comes back from a deeply reflective drive in a 1980's Lamborghini and shifting though the gears 17 times).

Side note: Can you believe that there isn't an official music video for Paul Engemann's Push It To the Limit from Scarface or Joe Espisito's You're The Best Around from Karate Kid?? Bullshit.

80s Video Friday: Magic

The Cars - Magic - ASTRO-ZOMBIE

To celebrate the summer weather that's about to hit the Hub, I figured I'd go with this little nugget.

Interesting creative direction here as The Cars' frontman, the unfortunate-looking Rick Ocasek, has a weird Jesus thing going on. I don't think Jesus ever rocked a blazer like that though.

Scoreboard
Ocasek: 1
Jesus: 0

80s Video Friday: I Ran

I Ran (so far away) - Flock Of Seagulls - Flock Of Seagulls

Ok, a little late on this one. Dedicated to all the runners on Monday who will be suffering from bleeding nipples, uncontrollable bowel movements and other wacky side effects from running 26.2 miles.

80s Video Friday: Working for the Weekend

Loverboy - Working For The Weekend - Loverboy

Blogging on my day off, felt this was appropriate.

80s Video Friday: Easy Lover

Easy Lover - Philipp Bailey Duet with Phil Collins

Interesting premise here: It's a video about the making of a video...go on...

To say that this video is an exercise in contrast is an understatement. From the moment the duet kicks off you have Philip Bailey with a stylish-unkempt, lounge-act swagger signing in unison with Phil Collins who looks so stuffy and wooden I was expecting him to burst into flames.

Then we have the production crew scrambling to put together the set for the video shoot. The artists' helicopter is landing and you're still painting the fucking set? Somebody's ass got fired after this. It's one thing to screw up a video shoot, it's an entirely different thing to screw up a fictitious video shoot.

Watch the 1:10 mark when Phil comes out of the door. Who walks like that? I had to re-watch that bit five times, each time in total disbelief.

1:18 - Get it? A black a white picture? Moving on...

3:04 - Here we have the classic black-guy-teaching-a-white-guy-to-dance, which is always entertaining and...wait, what the hell was that?? Did Phil Collins really just do that? Is that some sort of nervous tick? That was rather uncomfortable.

The Other Dude: 3:24 - Did he just button those unbottonable buttons on a suit jacket?

All in all, a pretty decent 80s video to kick off the weekend. Definitely one that will get stuck in your head just in time for the commute home.

"She's an easy lover..."