Tag: Video

Pass the Dutchie – Musical Youth

Musical Youth are a British Jamaican reggae band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. They are best remembered for their successful 1982 single “Pass the Dutchie”, which became a No. 1 hit around the world. The band recorded two studio albums, and released a number of successful singles throughout 1982 and 1983, including a collaboration with Donna Summer in “Unconditional Love”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Youth

From the youtube comments:
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“There’s a common misconception that Musical Youth’s number one hit in 1982, Pass the Dutchie, is a song about cannabis, when in fact the song is about extreme poverty; the ‘dutchie’ in the lyrics refers to a type of pot used for cooking. It’s an easy mistake to make though because the song Pass the Dutchie is actually a cover version of a song released just one year earlier called Pass the Koutchie by the Mighty Diamonds, which was indeed a song all about cannabis.”

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da – The Police

1980–1981: Zenyatta Mondatta
Pressured by their record company for a new record and a prompt return to touring, the Police released their third album, Zenyatta Mondatta, in October 1980. The album was recorded in a three-week period in the Netherlands for tax reasons. The album gave the group their third UK No. 1 hit, “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” (the UK’s best-selling single of 1980) and another hit single, “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”, both of which reached No. 10 in the US.

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Don’t think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They’re only cheques I’ve left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one’s jamming their transmission
‘Cause when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They’re meaningless and all that’s true

Photograph – Def Leppard

JOE ELLIOTT: When we did “Photograph,” we went mental. Phil wore a polka-dot top. Steve wore all white. The day before the shoot, I had £25 in my pocket, and I went down Kings Road in London to get some clothes. I found a pair of black pleather trousers that were too short by about four inches, so I bought them, and some leg warmers, which I’d seen in the TV show Fame. When I was done buying the pants and the effeminate leggings, I had £8 left. I walked past a punk rock shop and they had a red-white-and-blue Union Jack shirt in the window for £7.99. It was all I could afford, and it was loud. After that video, the shirt became so iconic that we sold almost 100,000 of them on tour that summer. We couldn’t wait to make the videos. The morning we shot “Photograph” is when I frosted my hair for the first time. When “Photograph” came out, I was a blond bombshell. David Mallet was hilarious. He called everybody “dear boy.” He was very posh, very theatrical. When we turned up to shoot “Photograph” at Battersea Power Station, he’d built that whole set. There was gridding on the floor with lights underneath. It was fantastic. The girls in the cages have become a little dated, but at the time, it hadn’t been done so much, so it worked fine.

DAVID MALLET: Why did I put the girls in a cage? Girls belong in cages, come on.

JANI LANE, Warrant: I was a junior in high school, and when I saw “Photograph,” I was like, Oh my god.

Tannenbaum, Rob; Marks, Craig. I Want My MTV

Post Apocalpytic 80’s Metal Music Videos – Mad Max Influence

For whatever the reason, Mel Gibson’s 1981 film The Road Warrior influenced metal video-making in a major way. Videos from two high-profile releases from ’83 (Shout at the Devil and Lick It Up) constructed fantasy worlds that appeared to be set in postnuclear wastelands where it’s always very windy and all the women wear ripped clothes.

Mötley Crüe’s “Looks That Kill” stars a Xena-esque female character who emancipates a corral of strippers, much to the chagrin of the Crüe (who were thereby forced to call on the power of Satan by joining fists and creating a fiery pentagram). Mötley’s “Too Young to Fall in Love” was more of an Asian kung-fu thriller (best remembered for Tommy Lee spitting out a mouthful of rice), but its Escape from New York vibe was very much the same. Meanwhile, KISS sold themselves as warriors who walked the earth for no reason in particular. “Lick It Up,” the first video that showed KISS without makeup, suggests that futuristic women will live underground and eat navy rations— but only KISS can help them rock! Its artistic companion, “All Hell’s Breaking Loose,” evidently takes place at the same time and place but also includes a lot of women fencing.

Klosterman, Chuck. Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

London Calling – The Clash

London Calling is the third studio album by English rock band the Clash. It was originally released as a double album in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1979 by CBS Records, and in the United States in January 1980 by Epic Records.

The Clash recorded the album with producer Guy Stevens at Wessex Sound Studios in London during August, September and November 1979, following a change in management and a period of writer’s block for songwriters Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. Bridging a traditional punk rock sound and a new post-punk aesthetic, London Calling reflects the band’s growing interest in styles beyond their punk roots, including reggae, rockabilly, ska, New Orleans R&B, pop, lounge jazz, and hard rock. Themes include social displacement, unemployment, racial conflict, drug use, and the responsibilities of adulthood.

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LDN – Lily Allen

“LDN” (shorthand for, and pronounced as, “London”) is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Lily Allen. It was co-written by Future Cut, and features a Colombian porro from the country’s Caribbean coast. The song was originally released on strictly limited edition 7″ vinyl (500 copies) in the UK on 24 April 2006, accompanied by album track “Knock ‘Em Out”, and was re-released in September following the huge success of Allen’s first mainstream single “Smile”.

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Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards on Writing of

I wrote “Gimme Shelter” on a stormy day, sitting in Robert Fraser’s apartment in Mount Street.

… I stayed there with Strawberry Bob and Mohammed, who were probably the first people I played it to. “War, children, it’s just a shot away…” It was just a terrible fucking day and it was storming out there. I was sitting there in Mount Street and there was this incredible storm over London, so I got into that mode, just looking out of Robert’s window and looking at all these people with their umbrellas being blown out of their grasp and running like hell. And the idea came to me. You get lucky sometimes. It was a shitty day. I had nothing better to do. Of course, it becomes much more metaphorical with all the other contexts and everything, but at the time I wasn’t thinking about, oh my God, there’s my old lady shooting a movie in a bath with Mick Jagger. My thought was storms on other people’s minds, not mine. It just happened to hit the moment. Only later did I realize, this will have more meaning than I thought at the time. “Threatening my very life today.” It’s got menace, all right. It’s scary stuff. And those chords are Jimmy Reed inspired—the same haunting trick, sliding up the fret board against the drone of the E note. I’m just working my way up A major, B major, and I go, hello, where are we ending up? C-sharp minor, OK. It’s a very unlikely guitar key. But you’ve just got to recognize the setups when you hear them. A lot of them, like this one, are accidents.

Richards, Keith. Life

Good To Be Alive – DJ Rap

 

Don’t crucify if I feel alive
It’s a natural high and I’m satisfied

Absolved from sin
I called the devil from within
He told me live my life
Don’t let them criticize

It’s good to be alive
Sometimes I wonder how I survived
And in my minds eye
When you’re low no-one seems to know
A fallen angel tonight
I feel no shame when I’m high
It feels so good must be right
It feels so good inside
Inside

I’d love to love you but I’m too impure an angel
I’d love to love you

Don’t compromise
You don’t live my life
‘Cos I don’t judge you
When I look in your eyes

It’s good to be alive
Sometimes I wonder how I survived
And in my mind’s eye
When you’re low no-one seems to know
A fallen angel tonight
I feel no shame when I’m high
It feels so good must be right
It feels so good inside
Inside

I’d love to love you..

On the soundtrack of the movie Go – Life begins at 3am

Freedom Highway – The Staple Singers

March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around

There is just one thing
I can’t understand, my friend
Why some folks think freedom
Is not designed for all men

There are so many people
Living their lives perplexed
Wonderin’ in their minds
What’s gonna happen next
That’s why we’re gonna

March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around

Found dead people in the forest
Tallahatchie River and lakes
The whole world is wonderin’
What’s wrong with the United States?

March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around

Found dead people in the forest
Tallahatchie River and lakes
The whole world is wonderin’
What’s wrong with the United States?

Yes, we want peace
If it can be found
We’re marching freedom highway
And we’re not gonna turn around

That’s why we’re gonna
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
Made up my mind

March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day, yeah yeah yeah
March down freedom highway, oh yeah
Marchin’ each and every day
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around
Made up my mind that I won’t turn around
That I won’t turn around