Video Blog - The Weird, The Questionable and all that ROCKED!

We don't know why.  More often, it was why NOT in the 80's.


1986:  Falco: Rock Me Amadeus:
Yes please.  I do do love me some classical, this tickles every fancy.  Just in case, Amadeus = Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and there are... I'm going to call it - 'interpretations' of Mozart in there, song is most awesome.

And really, fucking bravo to our man in the unexplainable hat at the 49 second mark.  He half looks like a gent with a case of Marilyn Manson meets pirate-zombie.  In the 80's, everything goes....





1984: Dead or Alive:  You Spin Me Round
Flo-Rida did his typical snagging a great spin-line-from-a-popular-song-remix a few years ago, and it was, I guess okay-rated since Flo-Rida to me.....is like a kid with down syndrome working the smile angle because everyone praises him when he he does it, and yeah I'm aware that's likely an unpopular comparison... but a metaphor is spot on, I'm apt to employ it.  Positive reinforcement of a mediocre thing, I get it and it is simply okay.  Here is the origin of oddness, great song - fierce hair.






1984:  Duran Duran: The Reflex

This was a huge hit, for reason's unknown to this taste.  Good band, rotten song.  Now, my older sister will tell you I  bratted my way into our shared bedroom and intentionally stomped her record of this song.... and that record was seemingly a mirror of her soul, thus crushing beyond anything possibly replaceable.  She took the busted 45 (that indicates speed by the way, a 45 was the small one) ultra personally, but it could have been that it was simply the straw that broke the back of personal items of hers I'd trashed that week.  It's what little sisters do because they covet and they are insufferable about said covet.  Me?  I say I did her a favor.  To this god damned day because the song is for shit.

Whyyy-eye-yi-yi...... , yeah why indeed.  Ugh.  Ashes to ashes, I'm glad I wrecked it, but did replace it on a CD a few Christmas's ago.  All the same, give it a fair shake, but my preference leaned towards Union of the Snake, or Hungry Like the Wolf. 

1982: Muciscal Youth:  Pass the Duchie
In case you are inclined to feel poorly for "how does it feel when you got no food", they aren't jumping and prancing for food, not that the ganja base line didn't tip you off.

The song was the band's first release on a major label. It was a cover version of two songs: "Gimme the Music" by U Brown, and "Pass the Kouchie" by The Mighty Diamonds, which deals with the recreational use of cannabis ("kouchie" being slang for a cannabis pipe). For the cover version, the song's title was bowdlerized to "Pass the Dutchie", and all obvious drug references were removed from the lyrics; e.g., when the original croons "How does it feel when you got no herb?", the cover version refers to "food" instead. "Dutchie" is used as a patois term to refer to a food cooking pot such as a Dutch oven in Jamaica and the Caribbean. It has since become a drug reference in itself, denoting a blunt stuffed with marijuana and rolled in a wrapper from a Dutch Masters cigar, since American and British listeners assumed that the term was a drug reference.






1982: George Clinton: Atomic Dog:
George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelics....the original dee-oh-double-g but so much more colorful. 



1982:  Rick James: Super Freak:
I'd like to remind you, everything goes... so when he says he can't take her home to mom, well neither can she... right?  /dance!






 1982: The Clash: Rock the Casbah:

"Thinks. It's. Not.  Ko-sher!" -







1986:  Genesis:  Land of Confusion

Best for last - ultimate weird right?  Enjoy the Reaganomics, but if you separate the lyrics from the imagery, it is saying a whole lot of something about the time. 

Song is still applicable.




Totally True:                                                                                    

You have, I imagine, heard of Chernobyl. 






Research it inclined, but true life mutant shit out there.  Still happening, you can't go "tour Chernobyl.." I think the radiation in 2013 still only lets you go into the city for about 15 minutes before being deadly, the people just left... took nothing.  It's not even loot-able for thieves, it's all so loaded with radiation....trinkets from the working class aren't worth the effort.  Look it up, I might be wrong.... but not wrong about the mutant factor:





"The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa – Chornobyl Catastrophe) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
 
The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011) The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles.The official Soviet casualty count of 31 deaths has been disputed, and long-term effects such as cancers and deformities are still being accounted for."

Legit Lingo:

Like, oh my God!

Meaning: Disbelief.
Usage: Like, oh my God! I heard Mikey died by eating Pop Rocks with Coke.

If this is a repeat lingo entry, that's because I didn't read the usage.  No one fucking died from Pop Rock's and cola that didn't have it coming for losing a bet.  .  Maybe usage should be "Like oh my god, Mikey is a shitty gambler!"   That's all I'm saying.