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threeplusfire) wrote2007-02-09 08:57 am
threeplusfire) wrote2007-02-09 08:57 am
everything I learned about relationships came from MTV
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beatnikside and twilight for the fact that I'm watching 80s music videos on Youtube at 8 in the morning when I should be eating breakfast and getting ready for work. But, you know, I know all these videos by heart from the amount of time I spent watching MTV at a friend's house in the late 80s and early 90s. (I remember this because they didn't really have a remote for the cable box. There was a little slide, with numbers up to 60 on the box, and MTV was 20 and VH1 was 21.) It is a little weird how much of these videos I remember, and strange that my brain decided this as more worthy than other things for storage space.
Now the ones I really loved were Guns N' Roses. Somewhere in my belongings is a VHS collection about the making of Axl's epic video trilogy. Don't Cry was first, and perhaps the best. (Shannon Hoon is in this video, weirdly.) Then there was November Rain. I would stay up until the top video countdown on MTV at night to see this day after day after day. The last chapter was done when GNR was well on their way to imploding, and I seem to remember they spent a crazy amount of money on this thing. Especially for the parts with the dolphins and the ship. He really did jump off that thing. Estranged frequently made me late to middle school, because I couldn't stop watching the sheer weirdness. You can't deny these guys were grandiose on a scale that nobody does anymore. I mean, I haven't seen anyone make a nine minute music video lately.
I still remember all the weird drama with Stephanie Seymour, and how they were such the rock star/supermodel couple. I think this is where I got the idea that relationships were all about crazy behavior, excess, violence, drinking, driving your car off a cliff, picnics in graveyards, jet planes, drug problems, rehab, playing guitar and suicides. Damn you guys. I suppose I should be glad I'm not living the rock star life I imagined when I was twelve.
(The other video I remember from those countdowns was Shakespeare's Sisters "Stay")
On a lighter note, I give you Nelson, memorable mostly for that long blonde hair. This song is really bad, but the video makes me laugh. Here is After The Rain. I think this was the only song they had. Next up we have one of my personal favorites, Warrant. Uncle Tom's Cabin was always on in the afternoons, as was the even more memorable Cherry Pie. But their real power ballad was I Saw Red. I always loved the conceit of rock boys playing piano.
I should stop watching videos before I make myself late for work. Oops. I intended to go in early too.
beatnikside and twilight for the fact that I'm watching 80s music videos on Youtube at 8 in the morning when I should be eating breakfast and getting ready for work. But, you know, I know all these videos by heart from the amount of time I spent watching MTV at a friend's house in the late 80s and early 90s. (I remember this because they didn't really have a remote for the cable box. There was a little slide, with numbers up to 60 on the box, and MTV was 20 and VH1 was 21.) It is a little weird how much of these videos I remember, and strange that my brain decided this as more worthy than other things for storage space.Now the ones I really loved were Guns N' Roses. Somewhere in my belongings is a VHS collection about the making of Axl's epic video trilogy. Don't Cry was first, and perhaps the best. (Shannon Hoon is in this video, weirdly.) Then there was November Rain. I would stay up until the top video countdown on MTV at night to see this day after day after day. The last chapter was done when GNR was well on their way to imploding, and I seem to remember they spent a crazy amount of money on this thing. Especially for the parts with the dolphins and the ship. He really did jump off that thing. Estranged frequently made me late to middle school, because I couldn't stop watching the sheer weirdness. You can't deny these guys were grandiose on a scale that nobody does anymore. I mean, I haven't seen anyone make a nine minute music video lately.
I still remember all the weird drama with Stephanie Seymour, and how they were such the rock star/supermodel couple. I think this is where I got the idea that relationships were all about crazy behavior, excess, violence, drinking, driving your car off a cliff, picnics in graveyards, jet planes, drug problems, rehab, playing guitar and suicides. Damn you guys. I suppose I should be glad I'm not living the rock star life I imagined when I was twelve.
(The other video I remember from those countdowns was Shakespeare's Sisters "Stay")
On a lighter note, I give you Nelson, memorable mostly for that long blonde hair. This song is really bad, but the video makes me laugh. Here is After The Rain. I think this was the only song they had. Next up we have one of my personal favorites, Warrant. Uncle Tom's Cabin was always on in the afternoons, as was the even more memorable Cherry Pie. But their real power ballad was I Saw Red. I always loved the conceit of rock boys playing piano.
I should stop watching videos before I make myself late for work. Oops. I intended to go in early too.
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GnR is still all over the radio. The rock station here, which is one of the only semi-listenable stations in Miami/FTL, plays them ALL THE TIME.
I hate to also admit this, but I was so crushed out on Nelson when I was 13-14. Their videos are horrible, I agree though. Their first song was actually (I Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection (another bad video). And they had a top 10 hit later with Only Time Will Tell, and then a top 20 hit with More Than Ever (which I never really liked).
It's amazing how my memory is spot on with stuff from when I was that age...or younger. Cuz it's absolute crap now.
Trivia though (I was obsessed): Matthew Nelson wrote 'Love and Affection' about Cindy Crawford; he had a big celebrity crush. He was also dating Bobbi Brown at the time she got the gig to be in Warrant's 'Cherry Pie' video. Jani Lane stole Bobbi Brown away from him...and married her (for a few years). I remember when she got her start winning the Star Search spokesmodel competition over and over again. Oh, and 'After the Rain' is about being told that they would never amount to anything when they were growing up...and they went on some American Indian vision quest and felt better or some crap. Heh.
This is why I read study material and 10 minutes later have no recollection of what I just read. My brain is full of this crap.
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...pick the red pill or the blue pill....
I had a moment of matrix deja vu there.