Debaser was on the album Doolittle (released in ‘89) but the single didn’t come out until 97. We’re still including it on Pound Note because of it’s place in alternative rock history. It’s still a typical Pixies low overhead video, but a little better than Monkey Gone to Heaven.
WATN? After that reunion tour, hopefully not planning on touring again.
Trivia: This song popped up in an EA Sports video game.
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Our first Saturday night Live Cut for 2009. Yeah, we’ve been slacking here at Pound Note. Anyway, we came across this gem from 1987. The BoDeans performing Good Work on the David Letterman show. Sound quality of the video is a little off (no fault of the band), but it’s a great trip back in time.
It’s New Year’s Day and no video is more appropriate than New Year’s Day by U2. Of course, they are part of the annoying Universal Music Group which has doesn’t allow video embedding into blogs like Pound Note, so we only have a live clip for you from 1982. Happy New Year!
This video helped introduce America to the Men at Work and the Vegemite Sandwich. Truly disturbing. The song hit #1 in the U.S., U.K., and in Australia. The video received heavy rotation on MTV and we here at Pound Note love the complete absurdity of it! Down Under shouldn’t be analyzed, just enjoyed. So we give it 4 guitars and say “You better run, You better run for cover.”
WATN? The band hasn’t performed together since 2000. The song however, was recently named the 4th greatest Australian song ever.
Trivia: The beer cans in the video are Foster’s with the labels obscured. Foster’s, Australian for beer!
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Aldo Nova peaked with his first single Fantasy. Given the leopard skin pimp outfit he’s wearing in the video, it’s not hard to see why. But don’t call him a one hit wonder. He’s had plenty of hits over the last 30 years believe it or not. They were just recorded by other people. Clay Aiken’s # 1 hit in 2003 This Is The Night was written by Aldo Nova.
As for Fantasy, it hit #3 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Charts and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. The video is standard early 80’s cheese, but the song is one a rock classic.
WATN? He released several more albums in the 80’s (my favorite was Twitch) and then tried to stage a comeback in the 90’s working with Jon Bon Jovi.
Trivia: Over the course of her career, Celine Dion has recorded 11 songs written by Aldo Nova. Others to collaborate with him include Bon Jovi, Michael Bolton, Faith Hill, Clay Aiken, and Blue Oyster Cult. Now that would make for a wacky music festival!
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This video has everything: weird hats, good music, and no apparent point. All of which earn it 4 guitars in our book. I getting my haircut once and the stylist said that she was convinced Ian Astbury of the Cult was actually Jim Morrison of the Doors reincarnated. I gave her an extra large tip so she could visit a therapist. Ironically, years later Astbury toured with the remaining members of the Doors.
One of the funniest things about the Cult in this video is if you turn off the sound and look at each member individually, you would think they were all playing a completely different genre of music. This might have been the first clue that the next three Cult albums would sound very different from each other.
WATN? The Cult are recording and plan a new release for Summer 2009.
Trivia: Ian Astbury’s “Gathering of Tribes” was the inspiration for Lollapalooza a year later. One former bass player went by the name Haggis.
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Is it me or was every 3rd Toto song the name of a girl? Toto had a revolving door of lead singers, so that might explain it. Pamela reached number 22 on the charts and the video was helped by a parade of models. I guess when you throw some jazz horns behind the guitars, the sexy models become art. When the models do the same thing in a heavy metal video, their called tramps. You say tomato, I say…
WATN? Toto officially called it quits on June 5, 2008.
Trivia? Paula Abdul (then unknown) made her video debut in the Toto video Till The End.
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Oh, yeah. You’re a closet Seagulls fan. Admit it and come over to the dark side. We have cookies. This video was in heavy rotation in 1982 and scored the band their first top ten hit. (Despite their perception as a one hit wonder, they did have 2 other singles crack the top 10.) The video is a perfect time capsule of the New Wave genre (both the hair and the heavy use of synthesisers.) We give it 5 guitars, cause we’re weird like that.
WATN? The band last toured in 2005.
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Rockwell’s hits with Michael Jackson: 1. Rockwell’s hits without Michael Jackson: 0.
Kennedy William Gordy had two very well known childhood friends: Michael and Jermaine Jackson. It also didn’t hurt that his sister married Jermaine when it came time to ask the two Jacksons to sing backup on his one and only hit. The video itself is a creepy nightmare about, well you can probably guess what it’s about.
WATN? Who knows? This guy is so WATN that WATN can’t find him.
Trivia: His half sister is the daughter of Diana Ross.
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This video gets 2 guitars if for no other reason than it prevented Michael Jackson from having back to back number 1 singles. For one week in between Billie Jean and Beat It, Come On Eileen held the number 1 spot in America. The band mixes British pop, Celtic fiddle, and the worst fitting overalls to ever grace MTV. They all look like their waiting for a 100 year flood. American singer Johnny Ray makes an appearance at the beginning of the video, but we here at Pound note think it could have been left out.
WATN? They released an album in 2007 that was mostly a rehashing of their first 2 albums.
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