THE DO YOU REMEMBER VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Whatever else people might say about YouTube, its function as an easily accessible video museum is just plain awesome. A few mouse clicks are all I need to dig up some lost treasure from the not-too-distant past, and, boom, it's 1982 again.
It's been many, many years since MTV actually used music videos as its mainstay. Now it's all about the caterwauling and libidinous narcissism of twentysomethings who in a better society would be undergoing steady (and televised) electroshock therapy.
But there are some of us who can remember what it was like to sit down and watch MTV for 20 minutes or so and actually see decent music videos. And to bring back those days, I plan to reach into the vault and pull out some of the gems from that time. Some might be obscure, some not.
We'll lead off with one of my favorite songs from the '80s, Genius of Love by the Tom Tom Club.
Whatever else people might say about YouTube, its function as an easily accessible video museum is just plain awesome. A few mouse clicks are all I need to dig up some lost treasure from the not-too-distant past, and, boom, it's 1982 again.
It's been many, many years since MTV actually used music videos as its mainstay. Now it's all about the caterwauling and libidinous narcissism of twentysomethings who in a better society would be undergoing steady (and televised) electroshock therapy.
But there are some of us who can remember what it was like to sit down and watch MTV for 20 minutes or so and actually see decent music videos. And to bring back those days, I plan to reach into the vault and pull out some of the gems from that time. Some might be obscure, some not.
We'll lead off with one of my favorite songs from the '80s, Genius of Love by the Tom Tom Club.
posted by John Parnell at 11:47 AM
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