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| From | Beth2459@aol.com |
| Subject | fave videos |
| Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 22:49:08 EDT |
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funny that it is hard for me to think of my favorite videos, when back in the
day (when music became the integral part of my life that it is) I thought I
wanted to make music videos! This was totally pre-MTV, I was never able to
convince my parents to get cable TV when I lived at home. I had to get my fix
with Friday Night Videos, Rock World (? - I am pretty sure I saw the video
for the Psych Furs song "sister-europe" there and that song totally blew me
away!) and I am surprised no one has mentioned Jukebox. I remember seeing the
weirdest of bands on that show - weird because they were all from England- Be
Bopp Deluxe is the only one I can remember now, the show was hosted by Twiggy
and I remember seeing the studio audience full of girls holding up scarves
with the band's names on them.
It has suddenly hit me that for all of the fun I poke at TV these days, hell
we still don't have cable hooked up in the house, that TV was one of the main
places I was exposed to music growing up.
Hard Day's Night on the Sunday afternoon movie at my grandmothers,
Stayed up late with mum and dad to see Help! one new year's eve on TV
Reruns of the Monkees in 195-6 started me on my way to Monkeemania and gave
me my first exposure to Frank Zappa and Tim Buckley
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert- ha! David Johansen, Rick James, John "Cougar",
The Grateful Dead, and Don's Disco Dancers (then rollerskaters!)
Saturday Night Live- The Specials, B52s,
Saw the Stray Cats on that ABC show on opposite SNL, that had Kramer from
Seinfeld on it.
Hell, I think the first place I remember reading about the Sex Pistols was in
TV guide!
Loved the Theme to Doctor Who (who knew a song could scare the sh*t out of
you?= oh yeah, the folks that wrote the Night Gallery theme!)
And thanks to whomever it was who resurrected V-66. "Funky in Framingham!" I
remember watching the same videos on that station over and over again, and my
little sister won a Howard Jones album from them.
Fave videos?
hmm, Vienna from Ultravox- actually Sleepwalk was cool too.
I always think of dancing dinosaurs when I hear the Hoodoo Gurus, so that vid
must have worked.
ah, and of course Mother of Pearl by Starbelly!
beth
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