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Offline Sikboy

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« Reply #45 on: February 16, 2008, 04:39:44 PM »
Wow, check out MTV when it was actually new and they showed videos.

I was looking for the old rocket launch clip but came across this instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvdphxFBhwQ

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« Reply #46 on: February 16, 2008, 04:50:36 PM »
See Rule #4

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Re: Re: 1981 changed it all
« Reply #47 on: February 16, 2008, 04:52:33 PM »
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Originally posted by kamilyun
And by 2000 you could take the "M" out of MTV and replace it with an "R" or better yet, "CR" for reality TV or Crappy Reality TV...

I used to get M2 b/c there you could still watch music videos, but now it's full of crap, too.

Bunch of teens running that network I think



I found this posted while looking for videos on YouTube:
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Video killed the radio star,
Reality TV killed the VJ star,
Then Soulja Boy came and killed everything.


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« Reply #48 on: February 16, 2008, 05:59:32 PM »
I must admit, i hate most 80's stuff.

However here's a few i can think of that i can tolerate:

foreigner

journey

whitesnake

I find it hard to believe people actually dressed like that.
"Willy's gone and made another,
Something like it's elder brother-
Wing tips rounded, spinner's bigger.
Unbraced tailplane ends it's figure.
One-O-nine F is it's name-
F is for futile, not for fame."

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« Reply #51 on: February 17, 2008, 12:55:44 AM »
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« Reply #52 on: February 17, 2008, 05:21:28 AM »
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« Reply #53 on: February 17, 2008, 10:32:02 AM »
David and David------life in the Boomtown!
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satisfaction oozes from her pours
Flying since tour 71.

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« Reply #54 on: February 17, 2008, 11:03:17 AM »

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« Reply #55 on: February 17, 2008, 11:18:02 AM »
One of the best guitarists of the time

I listened to these guys a lot, great band IMO

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« Reply #56 on: February 17, 2008, 11:27:28 AM »
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One of the best guitarists of the time

I listened to these guys a lot, great band IMO


Allied Forces was the first CD I ever bought.

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« Reply #57 on: February 17, 2008, 03:47:36 PM »
Did some digging through my '80s folder and came up with these.
Sorry for any duplicate posts-I was at the mercy of an extreme coffee buzz. :D

Enjoy,
Sun

Autograph-Turn up the radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNb8po-ufu8
"For every minute I have to work I need a minute of play."

In a Big Country-Big Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Si4oGXB79E
"In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive"

Rebel Yell-Billy Idol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c
"In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more' "

Come on Eileen-Dexy's Midnight Runners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4
"Come on Eileen,
I swear (well he means) At this moment you mean everything,
With you in that dress my thoughts I confess verge on dirty
Ah come on Eileen."

The Final Countdown-Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4
"With so many light years to go and things to be found
I'm sure that well all miss her so"

Love Plus One-Haircut 100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8Sser_DJU
"Then I call
Ring (ring) ring (ring) ring (ring) ring (ring)
La la love plus one"

Power Of Love-Huey Lewis And The News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdtS8pwctY
"The power of love is a curious thing
make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
more than a feeling, that's the power of love"

Living in America-James Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKjzo6bgEok&feature=related
"Super highways, coast to coast,
easy to get anywhere
On the transcontinental overload,
just slide behind the wheel
How does it feel"

Breaking The Law-Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zskUz8qceGU
"There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
all inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
so I might as well begin to put some action in my life"

Something About You-Level 42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w21yGM66qcI
"Drawn into the stream of undefined illusion
Those diamond dreams, they can't disguise the truth
That there is something about you, baby, so right
I wouldn't be without you, baby, tonight"

Queen Of The Broken Hearts-Loverboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRJtkDJOkU
"But she’s not that kind of girl
I’m tellin’ all the world
She was born the queen of the broken hearts"

Pop Music-M   (Sorry 1979-but it got so much '80s playtime)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaAOCGb3bw
"Get up...
Get down...
Radio, video
Boogie with a suitcase
Your livin' in a disco
Forget about the rat race
Let's do the milkshake, sellin' like a hotcake
Try some buy some fee-fi-fo-fum
Talk about, pop musik
Talk about, pop musik"

Our House-Madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEdZrV0j6zM&feature=related
"I remember way back then when everything was true and when
We would have such a very good time such a fine time
Such a happy time
And I remember how we'd play simply waste the day away
Then wed say nothing would come between us two dreamers"

Words-Missing Persons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIcWxFR4uh0
"What are words for
When no one listens anymore"

Melt With You-Modern English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoD3BUhZ-Sk
"I made a pilgrimage to save this humans race
(You should see why)
What I'm comprehending a race that long gone bye
(I'll stop the world)"

Mexican Radio-Wall Of Voodoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_0gPrzGA0
"I wish I was in Tijuana
Eating barbecued iguana
I'd take requests on the telephone
I'm on a wavelength far from home
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
I dial it in from south of the border
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can't understand--just what does he say?"

The Ghost In You-The Psychedelic Furs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaI0joa1Eho
"A man in my shoes runs a light
and all the papers lied tonight
but falling over you
is the news of the day
angels fall like rain
and love is all of heaven away"

Silent Lucidity-Queensryche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40epG4cB4zg&feature=related
"It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over...or has it just begun?"

Black Betty-Ram Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo&feature=related
"Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-Lam)
The damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-Lam)
She said, "I'm worryin' outta mind" (Bam-ba-Lam)
The damn thing gone blind (Bam-ba-Lam)"

Distant Early Warning-Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlgHfexw6g
"Left and rights of passage
Black and whites of youth
Who can face the knowledge
That the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete
Absolute"

I can't drive 55-Sammy Hagar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNATuw1DRs
"One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey!
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!
So I tried my best illegal move
Well, baby, black and white come and touched my groove again!"

Copperhead Road-Stephen Earle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_N56VDB5Eo
"I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road"

Stray Cat Strut-Stray Cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGg3_T_FcOQ
"Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence
Ain't got enough dough to pay the rent
I'm flat broke but I don't care
I strut right by with my tail in the air"

Ultimate Sin-Ozzy Osbourne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_EWjDoUAE
"I warned you then and
I’m warning you now if you mess with me you're playing with fire
winds of change that are fanning the flames will carry you to your funeral pyre
it's pulling you down it's your final descent
it's too late to repent"

Its My Life-Talk Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAVJTQeFiQ
"Funny how I find myself
In love with you
If I could buy my reasoning
I pay to lose"

Head Over Heels-Tears For Fears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2s4wbFAhFw
"Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Ah don't take my heart
Don't break my heart
Don't throw it away"

Fortress Around Your Heart-Sting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gd0cvOHTHE
"And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire"

She Blinded Me With Science- Thomas Dolby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o
"It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology
'Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!' "

Hold Me Now-Thompson Twins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0YLWWf2b8
"You say I'm a dreamer
We're two of a kind
Both of us searching for some perfect world
We know we'll never find"

Voices Carry-'Til Tuesday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4pTMN3abw
"I try so hard not to get upset
because I know all the trouble I'll get
oh, he tells me tears are something to hide
and something to fear
and I try so hard to keep it inside
so no one can hear"

Metro-Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXtort76gY
"I remember searching for the perfect words
I was hoping you might change your mind
I remember a soldier sleeping next to me
Riding on the metro"

She Drives me Crazy-Fine Young Cannibals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_wzi-kTVOI
"I can't stop
The way I feel
Things you do
Don't seem real"

China Girl-David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfndZfKFNU
"I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes"

Yankee Rose- David Lee Roth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2mQpYG2POM
"Ah, she's beautiful, alright,
mmmm..., nothin' like her in the whole world.
Yeah, she's right on time, I'm on the case.
Pick up the phone, no time to waste.
She got the beat and here's a little bit comin' your way."

Whip It-Devo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw
"When a problem comes along you must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long you must whip it
When something's going wrong you must whip it"

Walk of life-Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjBddCTCmk
"And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, you do the walk of life"

Life In A Northern Town-Dream Academy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9768pF6hA
"They sat on the stoney ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
He said 'In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And the Beatles.' "

Kiss On My List-Hall & Oates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ8ezA-MG5A&feature=related
"Sometimes I forget what I'm doing, I don't forget what I want, I want
Regret what I've done, regret you? I couldn't go on"
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« Reply #58 on: February 17, 2008, 08:29:12 PM »
Wow, some interesting picks there.  Here's my wildcard pick.

My Name Is Mok - Rock & Rule soundtrack (by Lou Reed)

And another.

Angel's Song - Rock & Rule soundtrack (by Debbie Harry)
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« Reply #59 on: February 18, 2008, 03:44:54 AM »
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Wow, some interesting picks there.  Here's my wildcard pick.

My Name Is Mok - Rock & Rule soundtrack (by Lou Reed)

And another.

Angel's Song - Rock & Rule soundtrack (by Debbie Harry)


Ha Ha that "My Name is Mok" vid brought back memories of this clip from "Heavy Metal". (I don't know why.)
Holy nostalgia, Batman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRn2uXD9O4I

And also the B-17 clip from Heavy Metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRaMaydobt8&feature=related

Regards,
Sun
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