Friday OT #3 - Showing Your Age Card
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The skeletons playing the instruments left a lasting image in your mind. It's probably my favorite Dead song. It's funny how some videos really stick out from early MTV days.
Aha's "Take on Me" - the comic book concept was just awesome and made people like this song way more than if they had never made the video
Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" - Alice in Wonderland with Alice as a cake getting cut apart
Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" - stop/motion and just trippy as ****
GNR's "Welcome to the Jungle" - Axl Rose strapped to a chair shaking back and forth
Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible" - simple concept of similar looking girls swaying back and forth pretending to play an instrument
Micheal Jackson's "Thriller" - first real mini-movie
Those were all great music videos and if I hear those songs I still visualize the video.
Do I really have to admit that it was probably Night Fever by the Bee Gees?
There was a time when MTV was good, and culturually interesting.
I like to think this was the last little bit of that.
I played a 45 single of "Puttin on the Ritz" to death before I ever went to school. My older cousins still laugh about watching me spin that record as a tiny kid.
Feels So Good, Chuck Magione.
My earliest memories are of being in the back seat of the car in Salt Lake City while mom drove me to whatever daycare I went to back then. This song was on the radio all the time.
Edit: 1977. Four years old.
My earliest memories are of being in the back seat of the car in Salt Lake City while mom drove me to whatever daycare I went to back then. This song was on the radio all the time.
Edit: 1977. Four years old.
I'm all over this! I'm putting it on the roster for the next few weeks!
I don't recall listing to much radio when I was a kid. My parents listened to their older stations or talk radio. I grew up with MTV, so new music for me was watching the video first over the radio. The earliest I can recall were the songs from Thriller: Billie Jean/Beat It/Thriller were probably my earliest memories of being exposed to new music.
These three stand out. All from 1978 when I was 9, so that must have been when I first was truly 'hearing' what was on the radio.
"Sleeping Single In A Double Bed" - Barbara Mandrell (still my favorite song of all-time)
"Renegade" - Styx
"Why Have You Left The One You Left Me For" - Crystal Gayle
Yes, I realize one of these is not like the others...
"Sleeping Single In A Double Bed" - Barbara Mandrell (still my favorite song of all-time)
"Renegade" - Styx
"Why Have You Left The One You Left Me For" - Crystal Gayle
Yes, I realize one of these is not like the others...
I have the 45.
Dammit, now that song is likely to be stuck in my head the rest of the day. "Dude, was that old guy on the bike singing Venus? Weird."
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I don't actually remember this but it was a story drilled into me via family recounts so it's like an implanted memory, as a mini-toddler my favorite song was How Much is that Doggy in the Window by Patti Paige.
I do remember hearing Ricky Nelson sing Traveling Man after the Ozzie and Harriet show one night. That's the only one I can pin point down to a time and place for sure.
I do remember hearing Ricky Nelson sing Traveling Man after the Ozzie and Harriet show one night. That's the only one I can pin point down to a time and place for sure.
either:
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Man and the Earth Band
Another One Bites the Dust/We Are the Champions - Queen (Brian May is incredible)
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Man and the Earth Band
Another One Bites the Dust/We Are the Champions - Queen (Brian May is incredible)
You younger folks have MTV video memories. For me it was TV music variety shows with live performances - American Bandstand, Shindig, Hullabaloo & Where the Action Is...later, Solid Gold & Soul Train (amazing dancing).
