14 posts tagged “80s”
These kids are wonderful. Now if only they would learn some Dead Kennedys...
Show us some fish.
Jed the Fish is in the middle with the glasses. Rodney is 2nd from the left. The rest of the blokes call themselves "Duran Duran".
Most people think that this was originally a Quiet Riot song, but really their popular version is a cover too. 10 years before Kevin DuBrow and the other metal mask wearing boys released their version (and MTV staple), Cum on Feel the Noize was released by the UK Glam Rock band, Slade.
It has been covered a number of times in a number of ways. Here is one of the many punk versions.
Live covers are always iffy. Sometimes a band just noodles around and the cover just happens. Other times it is all planned out. Then the actual recording is always a crap shoot. You can't easily edit out the idiot next to you who randomly shouts "WHOOOOOOOOO" in the middle of the song.
Gnarls Barkley
Supertramp
The Who
Rockwell
Video: Show us a great music video.
There are a lot of great videos, but "Sweep the Leg" by "No More Kings" is probably the greatest new video I've seen.
It features all of our Cobra Kai buddies and other friends from The Karate Kid (except for Pat Morita because he's dead - Mr. Belding fills in - and Elizabeth Shue because she probably feels "above" this now.)
Retrocrush has an interview with Billy Zabka ("Johnny
Lawrence" and the go-to guy for a teen villian in an 80's movie) about the making of the video (he was the writer and director).
http://retrocrush.com/archive2007/zabka/index.html
I also have to throw Weezer's "Keep Fishin'" video in here just because. Do you have a problem with that?
I found this searching around the dark underground corners of my hard drive. This was one of the 2 mash-ups played at my wedding reception.
There have been rumors about a reunion since their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few years ago, but this may very well be the thing that confirms the reunion plans.
Reuters article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013000606.html
If they do tour, I'd love to see the show. Unfortunately, tix will probably be so expensive, I'll have to pass.
I was BoingBoinged via John Frosts' wonderful "The Disney Blog".
Cory Doctorow is a huge Disney fan and I have no idea why I didn't think to submit this to the site myself. I discovered BoingBoing through Cory after he linked to some pics I took of the Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion's Madame Leota Tombstone the day it was installed. I had no idea why the Geocities site (this was several years ago) that I threw them on was always maxed out on bandwidth- checked the stats and discovered BoingBoing.
Back to Captain Eeyore...
Jim Hill has additional info on the backstory of Captain Eeyore (why it was created, info about the Disneyland event it was created for, some of the performers and others who worked on it, etc.)
- Never mind "Captain EO" -- what about "Captain Eeyore" ??? - August 11, 2003
- Why For? - about halfway down September 05, 2003
