Thank gooodness the Roolling Stoones stayed toogether!

[stubhead]

Not that I'd give a more than two plugged nickels for their newer output, but it prevented twenty-five more years of THIS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-x2fWKbmo&feature=related

Don't EVEN ask why I'm... well you know. ???

 

[Nando Vallart]

Jesus Christ on a stick with blunt nails hammered on!

 

[bagman67]

Yeah, that was a pretty bad moment in '80's "rock."  The way I see it, either Mick and Dave were just having fun, and decided to see if they could make a few bucks while they were at it - or they were supremely arrogant, and said to themselves, "Those suckers will buy pretty much anything we put out there!" 

Bowie being hot on the heels of "Let's Dance," he would have been right had he held such a cynical viewpoint.

 

[crash]

They played that entire video on a recent episode of Family Guy.  It made me wishing for Conway Twitty.

 

[dNA]

Good ***king God. I knew the song was aweful, but the music videos people made in the 80's are just so beyond my comprehension. It's disgusting

 

[stubhead]

Well, the good thing is that now Bowie has gotten his play-acting "characters" out of the way, and he's kicking some good stuff. He has a backlog of good songs, he just has to sing them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdo5f_ozf6E

I never understood the Spiders or thin white duke stuff - he had the voice and the songs, that stuff just detracted from them. :icon_scratch:

 

[nexrex]

Wowza, that is pretty bad. Just goes to show you what can happen without "Keef" and Co.  :-\

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Get Bowie into Tin Machine:

[youtube=425,350]TvNot9hvuRw[/youtube]

And hey ... the 80's were great and still are. But you probably should have been there.

 

[dNA]

And hey ... the 80's were great and still are. But you probably should have been there.

That must be it, because besides The Cosby Show and myself being born, I can't seem to find anything about the 80's that I find redeeming. Except maybe a lesson in everything NOT to do as a musical artist for generations to come

 

[m4rk0]

I remember that clip, and that it didn't come across as ridiculous as now... but yeah that is pretty bad.
(just like anything else with Jagger in it)

 

[crash]

And hey ... the 80's were great and still are. But you probably should have been there.

That must be it, because besides The Cosby Show and myself being born, I can't seem to find anything about the 80's that I find redeeming. Except maybe a lesson in everything NOT to do as a musical artist for generations to come

The Simpsons, and some pretty damn good movies.

 

[AutoBat]

And hey ... the 80's were great and still are. But you probably should have been there.

That must be it, because besides The Cosby Show and myself being born, I can't seem to find anything about the 80's that I find redeeming. Except maybe a lesson in everything NOT to do as a musical artist for generations to come

The Simpsons, and some pretty damn good movies.

How about Hysteria, ...And Justice for All, and Appetite for Destruction?

 

[llmtelecaster]

I kept waiting for them to lock lips.

 

[bagman67]

And hey ... the 80's were great and still are. But you probably should have been there.

That must be it, because besides The Cosby Show and myself being born, I can't seem to find anything about the 80's that I find redeeming. Except maybe a lesson in everything NOT to do as a musical artist for generations to come

The Simpsons, and some pretty damn good movies.

How about Hysteria, ...And Justice for All, and Appetite for Destruction?

And Sam Kinison (RIP).

 

[dNA]

The Simpsons, and some pretty damn good movies.

How about Hysteria, ...And Justice for All, and Appetite for Destruction?

you know, you guys are right. I'm not a big fan of Metallica or GnR, but that stuff is head and shoulders above the majority of pop music in its time. And the Simpsons! i mean, i don't think it really got great until a few years into the 90's, but that's the birth of a pretty epic cultural phenomenom.



ok. i'll let the 80's slide. Just let me try and wash that video out of my memory for a few days first

 

[hannaugh]

Ahem... Back to the Future. 

But yeah, that song is so awful.  I don't know what they were thinking.  I have that huge Bowie hits collection, and for some reason, that song is included.  Out of all the good stuff they could have put on it, for some reason they chose that piece of crap.

 

[OzziePete]

Welcome to 1985!

The year of LIve Aid, and the year my Dad died & I went completely off the rails for several months in grieving.

This recording did nothing to help me get through my personal crisis - it is a huge cringe given the alleged history between these two people - but I understand it did raise some money for charity.

 

[Superlizard]

I was more fond of Hear 'n' Aid myself.

 

[Cagey]

...and the year my Dad died & I went completely off the rails for several months in grieving.

I can sympathize. I did the same thing when my dad died, and I didn't even think I liked him.

 

[ptirman]

Aussie and Cagey, I still grieve for my dad. And it was 23 freaking years ago - not like the passage of time makes it any easier. I think he's happy that I still revere him though at least I hope he is. I remember just getting the new thing in music those days - a CD. George Harrison's All things Must Pass. uncanny. Hard to listen to it even still.