What!? VH1 Classic is a pretty sure bet for a child of the Eighties when he is up late with his child of 2006. Always a video on that start a trip down memory lane. Sometimes Memory Lane is a dead end, but that is another topic for another day.
Last night I was watching VH1 Classic and they had "20 Top Videos of the Eighties" or some such thing. A countdown of ...well...you get it. Anyhow, whoever assigned rank and value to these videos must have the artistic sensibility of Twinkie addled baboon. They put "Take On Me" by a-ha at number eight. How in the name of Cindi Lauper can they place that video any lower the number one? That video is the best video of the Eighties. I don't know what they said was number one. I went to bed when "Take On Me" was named eight. It does not matter. Sure. Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" was good. I could almost live with that. ZZ Tops' "Sharp Dressed Man" is almost worthy. But neither top "Take On Me"
I have a sick feeling that "Thriller" won. Don't tell me if you know. I am SO over it. That show was totally bogus.
music, tv
A small note of clarification; I was actually a teen / young adult of the Eighties.
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Safety Dance by far is the best vid from the 80s. Take on Me didn't even have a midget.
Robby
I love the eighties videos. I can't agree that Safety Dance was the best.
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