tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post3531606382234999359..comments2024-03-17T18:53:56.416-07:00Comments on Cosmic American Blog: "Hooked On Polkas" - Part II: Weird Al, Trevor Horn, Yes, and Frankie Goes To Hollywoodyoggothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00233852251148460524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-34657601898378114972013-01-11T11:02:34.317-08:002013-01-11T11:02:34.317-08:00Yeah, that's not the original video for VKTRS,...Yeah, that's not the original video for VKTRS, but like you said, I'm unable to find it on Youtube either. Copyright, shmopyright.Herr Zrbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728690738360128504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-37679108497276697552013-01-10T21:10:42.817-08:002013-01-10T21:10:42.817-08:00Hopefully it didn't show, but I must admit tha...Hopefully it didn't show, but I must admit that this was one of the more difficult blog posts I've ever managed to post. I wasn't sure if I wanted to post about the entire Frankie Goes to Hollywood album, or only about "Relax," or do an entire post about Trevor Horn, or somehow tie it into my Weird Al series. But I think I pulled it off.<br /><br />I was attempting to post the official video for "Video Killed the Radio Star" (which is famously known as the first video ever broadcast on MTV), but that was the best clip I could find. I assume that's not the official video then? Perhaps Trevor Horn's lawyers have blocked it from YouTube, as revenge for YouTube having killed the MTV star.<br /><br />And yes, how many versions of a "Relax" video can you have, right? Apparently not enough. Don't thank me - thank YouTube. I'd seen the "laser beam" version floating around, and it sounds like that's the one that's been aired the most in the U.S. But as for these other two versions, I'm having a hard time deciding which one is more ridiculous.<br /><br />The first one has:<br /><br />*Johnson being escorted to the club in a...rickshaw?<br />*Some biker dude in a latex top holding a flashlight and a banana<br />*A roman emperor whose face is being applied with shaving cream as he watches Johnson wrestle with a live tiger<br />*Transvestites in cages<br /><br />The second one has:<br /><br />*A woman waltzing down the stairs a la Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd.<br />*Melanie Griffith as a sleazy leather-clad prostitute<br />*A woman getting strangled to death by a telephone cord as the lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood watches through a telescope<br /><br />I mean, if that's not your idea of the ultimate music video, then I don't know what is.Little Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415022026000282965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-161694830669099204.post-84189167713026741862013-01-09T15:04:10.538-08:002013-01-09T15:04:10.538-08:00Great find on that Relax video, I've never see...Great find on that Relax video, I've never seen that version, and I think I only have a passing familiarity with the alternate version you posted. The version I know is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Same goes with the Video Killed the Radio Star, that version you posted is so.. robotic (the audience appears to be in a coma).<br /><br />I knew that Frankie was a manufactured group of sorts, but I didn't know the Buggles connection.<br /><br />Oh and while we're at it, Within Temptation (with Sharon den Adel/my Belinda Carlisle) have been posting weekly covers for the past few months and recently they covered... The Power of Love! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w8Ik6kcp00" rel="nofollow">Here you go,</a> enjoy!Herr Zrbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15728690738360128504noreply@blogger.com