Oh Mi God. On Rage tonight we have more Countdown episodes from the early 80s, this time 1982, and after starting off with Joan Jett, we have Culture Club when they were actually in the charts with Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, rocketing up the ranks from 21 to 8. How old is Boy George nowadays anyway? Madonna is 47, and she was about the same vintage...
The first music video I remember watching is a toss up between Karma Chameleon by Culture Club or hmm Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley. A long time ago for either of them anyways LOL. Damned old skool music, it gets me to stay up to marvel at the awfulness of it every time - and just think, there are kids out there today who already think that about my preferred music timeframe of the 90s LOL.
I made it to the refined timeframe of Rage by watching a movie about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica 1914-16. I had always thought it was a disaster kind of story, like Scott, but even though Shackleton didn't make it to the Pole, or do the trans-Antarctic thing like he was hoping, he kept all of his crew alive, under the worst of circumstances. A sister expedition, laying supplies for the expedition from the opposite side of the continent, wasn't so lucky though. It's hard to imagine having to have two winters in a row down there, in the circumstances they had back in those days...
OMG - I have NEVER seen this video before, but I love the song - Billy Joel's Allentown... mmm, that was nice - I remember listening to the Billy Joel best of on the way from Ottawa down through New York state and New Jersey on the way to NYC, and also coming to mind is Bruce Springstein, and wanting to watch the Deer Hunter as well all of a sudden - feeling very steel mill, coal mine, blue collar all of a sudden...
Or maybe it was Six Months In A Leaky Boat that was my first video? Hmm.
Almost as scary as how catchy I Love Rock And Roll still is, is the hairstyles and clothing of the live studio audience aargh. And how Bronx or Joisey is Joan Jett's accent? Only one good song in the top ten from Dec 12 1982 - Rock The Casbah by the Clash. Mmm, I KNEW they did some eighties stuff, and Lee Harding I'm So Punk It Hurts, didn't do it as his eighties slot.
It's late at night and I'm delirious obviously, admitting viewing Australian Idol LOL. And what was Australia and England on when they put Pass The Duchie as number one all those years ago? It gives me hope that in 25 years time, the music crimes of Lee Harding and the Crazy Frog will be forgotten by the next generation - until they show retro Video Hits replays LOL.
OMG, yes another one of those moments, now we have Bad Reputation on the telly box, olld skool Joan Jett song. Now, this song was on the soundtrack of a 90s movie I am sure, but which one? Grosse Point Blank perhaps? Let's go googling :) Ohhhhh, it was Freaks and Geeks on TV, that my sister watched occasionally when I was in the same room - wasn't a biggie for me...
Next segment is from 1987. Hmm, will it seem less retro? Retro of course being a better word than I was originally thinking of LOL...
But I should stop rambling, even though this may be of some entertainment value. To someone. Maybe...
Pauly
The first music video I remember watching is a toss up between Karma Chameleon by Culture Club or hmm Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley. A long time ago for either of them anyways LOL. Damned old skool music, it gets me to stay up to marvel at the awfulness of it every time - and just think, there are kids out there today who already think that about my preferred music timeframe of the 90s LOL.
I made it to the refined timeframe of Rage by watching a movie about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica 1914-16. I had always thought it was a disaster kind of story, like Scott, but even though Shackleton didn't make it to the Pole, or do the trans-Antarctic thing like he was hoping, he kept all of his crew alive, under the worst of circumstances. A sister expedition, laying supplies for the expedition from the opposite side of the continent, wasn't so lucky though. It's hard to imagine having to have two winters in a row down there, in the circumstances they had back in those days...
OMG - I have NEVER seen this video before, but I love the song - Billy Joel's Allentown... mmm, that was nice - I remember listening to the Billy Joel best of on the way from Ottawa down through New York state and New Jersey on the way to NYC, and also coming to mind is Bruce Springstein, and wanting to watch the Deer Hunter as well all of a sudden - feeling very steel mill, coal mine, blue collar all of a sudden...
Or maybe it was Six Months In A Leaky Boat that was my first video? Hmm.
Almost as scary as how catchy I Love Rock And Roll still is, is the hairstyles and clothing of the live studio audience aargh. And how Bronx or Joisey is Joan Jett's accent? Only one good song in the top ten from Dec 12 1982 - Rock The Casbah by the Clash. Mmm, I KNEW they did some eighties stuff, and Lee Harding I'm So Punk It Hurts, didn't do it as his eighties slot.
It's late at night and I'm delirious obviously, admitting viewing Australian Idol LOL. And what was Australia and England on when they put Pass The Duchie as number one all those years ago? It gives me hope that in 25 years time, the music crimes of Lee Harding and the Crazy Frog will be forgotten by the next generation - until they show retro Video Hits replays LOL.
OMG, yes another one of those moments, now we have Bad Reputation on the telly box, olld skool Joan Jett song. Now, this song was on the soundtrack of a 90s movie I am sure, but which one? Grosse Point Blank perhaps? Let's go googling :) Ohhhhh, it was Freaks and Geeks on TV, that my sister watched occasionally when I was in the same room - wasn't a biggie for me...
Next segment is from 1987. Hmm, will it seem less retro? Retro of course being a better word than I was originally thinking of LOL...
But I should stop rambling, even though this may be of some entertainment value. To someone. Maybe...
Pauly
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