You have to admit that the nostalgia factor is ridiculously heavy. Checking out a video of Olle and John of the specimen, explaining themselves re:founding of the Batcave club...well, it has to at least bring a smile to your face, considering what you do.
At the same time, I don't really need to have this interview in pristine DTV compatible format, and this is even more so with the Disco lessons in Finland, or the mixed group shower sing alongs by the pre-pubescent dutch (even though both cracked me up...).
If it must be videos that are digitised and encoded to 1991 amateur quality standards, so be it, but I want more of the missing documents. Where is USA Network SNUB television and New Wave theater broadcasts? Where is all tha Tackhead?

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posting links to the videos I mentioned for jwz seemed almost like posting a multiplication table for Einjstein (or something) but for everyone else...
specimen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzlo-yXjjwk
finland disco lesson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwakjoSs754
the video wrong on so many levels, you'll run out of fingers counting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7fhrim2WY

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New Model Army made a video? Wowzers.

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sell-outs

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I can't believe you didn't point out this video!

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Ah yes, Bill Paxton's biggest claim to fame. Second only to Martini Ranch. :)

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Yazoo actually had videos! Who knew?!

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Come on, I'd say that video is standard NTSC resolution and the quality on par with Betamax. Bear in mind it was probably digitized from a VHS cassette - what do you want, everything remastered in THX?

The future part is you can sit at home and watch all these videos on demand.

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No way is it beta or even VHS quality -- it's VHS, after several tape generations, after being recorded off of broadcast TV, and then dropped down to 10fps.

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What could be more quintessentially 80's than Tarzan Boy?

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I am going to have that Aldo Nova song stuck in my head for at least a week.

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Same with me and Living On Video. The synth melody part had taken up residence in my brain decades ago, but only now do I know the name of the song.

I love the internet.

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Just how big are your postage stamps?

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perhaps the better question is... 'what's your default desktop resolution?'

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~leaves wet spot on seat~

I am bookmarking this site.
Actually, I don't need to--I don't think I am ever leaving this site AGAIN.
IT WILL BECOME MY NEW HOME.



The funny part being, of course, that the first two you were trying to forget...live in my "cheesy earworms" folder, and are songs I have actually listened to in the last WEEK.


But still.
This is the best bit of content ever.
You are my new favorite person.

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Me, too.

::dies from nostalgic ecstasy::

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That's Rockridge, or somewhere in the east bay. Isn't Montgomery BART under ground?

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The really long white tunnel at the beginning looks like Montgomery to me.

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weee... that's taken from the all-famous german 80th-video-show "fromel eins" hosted by
peter illmann...

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when I think "gigantic", I think more than one song from each artist. This strikes me more as a greatest filtered hits of the 80s than anything even trying to be inclusive.

dos centavos.

-transiit

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why does all that remind me of dieter from snl - saying stuff like "naext video fromm se baend schreibmachine se song kuechenhilfe"?

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germaine stewart looks like a Castro version of Snoop Dog.

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I am *so* gonna learn the dance sequence at the beginning of THAT baby and do it all the time to annoy jwz.

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Wow, that Chrome video reminded me of this one.

That's my old friend Johnny Strike on guitar. He released an album a couple of years ago.

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Well, there goes the afternoon's productivity...

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A little surprised you didn't know about the Sevs video. There are actually something like 5 versions of the Dead Eyes Opened video - I think he remakes it every few years or something. Pretty much everything Severed Heads did had a video attached to it, at least in a live context - for a long time the band was an audio guy and a video guy. I've got like 2 VHS's and 2 DVD's full of Sevs videos. In fact, you can get the Sevs videos here, or if you can't manage going anywhere without having Sevs videos on you at all times, you can get some for your portables here.

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Indeed, Stephen Jones is credited on several Severed Heads albums for "videotape" and "videosynthesisers".

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VH1 Classic airs a lot of these on a regular basis. "We Are The '80s", "Pop Show", "All Star Jams", "All Request Hour", "The Alternative" are all good shows to find this sort of stuff. I filled 4 DVDs (DirectTV -> DVD recorder) with classic videos from there :-)

Shame VH1 Classic is so overcompressed on DirecTV though.

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I like YouTube. There's a lot of crazy stuff on there.

Like, it's nice to know that there are at least two Toni Basil covers of Devo songs, with corresponding videos which seem to have been shot the same day, in the same studio, on the same set, as "Hey Mickey," but somehow don't (totally) suck.

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Ouch. the link that claims to be for a Residents video goes to White Lion's "When the Children Cry"

That's no fun.

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Seriously. I think you have a potential tort action there.

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Doesn't the new Red Hot Chili Peppers video "Dani California" cover all the music videos ever made, including Anthony Keidis dressing up as Glen Danzig???

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