Archive for the ‘80′s Music’ Category

I’m sorry but there are just some songs that were just plain stupid.  Some of them even were produced by some of my favorite groups, such as Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus.

Another one that strikes me as fitting this category was Bring Me Edelweiss (mixing Julie andrews via Abba with rap and house music)

Of course the music video was probably the reason why MTV first made the decision to get out of the music video business in the first place with midgets and purple cows and those Ricolah Players before Ricolah was invented.

In the late 80’s probably the best symbol for this was Vanilla Ice, infectious as hell but just stupid….

This was even recognized at the time and probably helped to create this genre.

Then there is the cattle call version of infectious and stupid.  Its one of those songs where you have to be herded (Zapp, move along little doggies) onto the dance floor.  No I’m not talking about the Chicken Dance, I’m talking about The Electric (aka The Electric Slide).

UPDATE

Added by recommendation 

Strokin’ Clarence Carter.  I always figured this was an oldie way back when, no idea if it was actually kind of current in the late 80’s early 90’s.

another recommendation –> Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode, would include it but Depeche Mode doesn’t really like their music shared on the internet unless they are promoting a new album.  Since this is definitely not a new album, its a no show on Youtube.  (Who knew that Depeche Mode and Metallica were so much alike?) 

Ever know about Johnny Cash’s version? 

Not quite as good as his cover of Trent Reznor’s Hurt

One of my favorite 80’s songs made popular in both discos and hockey rinks (real fucking weird mix that) is Doctorin’ the Tardis by the Timelords.

here’s a quick short music video, which features a robot so ridiculously unreal that it would make Will Rodgers blush.

Now, weirdly enough The Timelords reformed as KLF in the late 80’s remixed in the early 90’s with a popular dance hit 3AM eternal which also ‘rocked the discos’ but not so much the hockey rinks.  In both songs, you could almost swear that the group went on one two many acid trips with Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson with a round trip ticket down paranoid lane taking the detour past conspiracy theory and straight into the cul de sac of ancient civilizations that sank in the oceans for $1000.

Here’s the concert version

Here’s an obscure version of 3AM

Also from KLF, Last Train to Trancentral 12 inch version

By this time if you are wondering wtf the Justified Ancients of MU are or where they are from, MU is basically a lost continent that sank in the Pacific (not Krakatow, which actually blew up off the face of the earth in volcanic explosion which created a winter around the world as it cover the planet in ash) but a sinking continent.  Basically the Atlantis theory for the Pacific, but the Ancients of MU were basically in opposition to the Illuminati of Atlantis so don’t make the mistake of thinking the two were the same.

Now, if you are wondering how the Ancients of MU escaped a sinking continent, it was basically in a sale boat powered by techno, soul singing and a little bit of rap which the Ancients of MU invented.

Now don’t even get these guys started about their angst against The Jams.  Their not ‘kicking out the jams’ as in kicking out some cool tunes, their talking about kicking a political party known as the Jams (but you can think of them as Pre-Civil Rights Democrats if you are looking for an American analogy).

But in this video, you’d swear that these trance/techno types were more akin to a trancy reincarnation of Johnny Rotten.

But then again they also call themselves the Jams, so things get a little in bred with this ancient conspiracy theory stuff.  The truth is they seem to have factions within factions.

At the end of the day, who cares they make good music.