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  1. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    A restaurant in Lakeline is the best restaurant in Austin?  I find that hard to believe.  Let me guess...it's just minutes from downtown?  

    I won't argue that it's the best restaurant in Austin, but it's extremely good. If you haven't been, you should try it.

  2. 38 minutes ago, DeathTongue said:

    I hear ya.  That's why I didn't post George Michael's Freedom.  It was released in 1990.

    Linda Evangelista.  Mmmmmm...

    Yup, and Billy Idol's Rock The Cradle of Love was 1990 as well.  But since those aren't 80s videos, it's a good thing we're not mentioning them. :)

    Betsy Lynne George, though.

    And reading up on it, that video was released on May 1, 1990, so it'll officially be 28 years old tomorrow.  But still, not an 80s tune...

     

  3. At COTA it's just a completely inadequate preparation of staff, both in quantity and training.  

    It took an hour to get out of the parking lot for the Foo Fighters concert last week.  It was no big deal because I expected it and planned for it (meaning, I had a well-stocked cooler), but as an engineer that's been focused on operational efficiency my entire life, it's really painful to watch them do almost every single thing, completely wrong.

     

  4. Alonso just continues to be unbelievable. I love that guy.

    Feel horrible for Bottas, he played his role, raced amazingly well, and would have deserved the win.

    Max and Daniel.  I felt that was inevitable from about lap 15?  I mean, you just KNEW it was coming.  I've seen Christian Horner willing to talk under some tough conditions, but he was having nothing to do with those questions on his way to the debrief.  I don't blame him.  That's going to be a rough garage for a while.

    And Kimi also had a very good, patient race.  It's what he does.

    And I'll certainly pay Lewis his proper respect, today's what I'd call a completely "professional" drive for him.  Just a world-class pro even after making a little mistake here or there.  He earned it.

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  5. 9 hours ago, South Austin said:

    If the thread was about favorite songs of the 1980s, Everybody Wants To Rule The World would've been my first post.  But we're talking videos, and I think the video for that song was okay, but not particularly great compared to many others in this thread.  In fact, most of the great videos of the 80s featured songs that are pretty meh.

    Wasn't just talking about Everybody Wants To Rule The World, but I gotcha.  Honestly though, many of the ones listed so far have been both good videos and good songs, so I'm not sure I'm with you on your last assertion.  Regardless, it's all good. :)

  6. 1) Totally in with Higgy and South Austin on TFF Everybody Wants to Rule the world, such a great song off a great album featured in one of my favorite 80s comedies of all time (and as an electrical engineer I can't tell you how much Real Genius shaped my world view and especially my stress-handling-capabilities when things got tough in my undergrad classes).  I'm cool with acknowledging it as a quintessential 80s song and I'm pretty surprised it took that long for TFF to come up, honestly.

     

    2) Chad-- thank you very little for the 30-years-too-late protip on 120 minutes.  Maybe it was past my bedtime and I wasn't allowed to watch?  Or maybe I was watching Letterman and learning phrases like, "I lost my dolly... down the crapper!"  Either way, sure wish I'd known this a long while back.  Then I could have totally reverse-hipstered my indie-rock friends and told them they were lame as soon as they found out about any band I'd already heard of. :)

     

    3) Dolemite, I like you, that's why I'm going to kill you last.  :) I'll be honest, I phrased the thread title this way on purpose for 2 reasons:

    a) I used "favorite" instead of best in an attempt to avoid the typical shag/surl asshattery of arguing "GOAT"

    ii) I said "video" instead of song because I wanted to focus on the craft of the video itself, rather than the song, while readily admitting that the two will always be interlinked.  That said, I hate rules and if you want to post up your favorite 80s song then feel free.  That decade of music is the soundtrack of my Coming of Age story, probably like most of you, and I wouldn't want to limit a tribute to it for anything.

     

    I'll also add that I really enjoy hearing the commentary on why people loved these videos.  Anyone can post up links to their favorite 80s songs or 80s videos, but there's always a REASON for that interest, and that's what I like to hear about.

     

    Anyway, thanks everyone for contributing so far, it's been cool to get some reminders of ones I'd forgotten.

  7. Same here, never saw Femmes videos on MTV.  I knew about them from my "indie rock" friends, you know the kind of folks that decided they hated a band the moment anyone had actually heard of them?  I guess they were hipster pioneers or something?  Anyway, obviously once anyone else had heard of the Femmes, they abandoned them for Skinny Puppy or somesuch.

     

    Now here's a video that I'm surprised hasn't already been mentioned (or maybe I missed it?).  It was absolutely in about an hourly rotation in the very earliest days of MTV:

     

     

  8. 1 hour ago, Texas007 said:

    "Hey Mickey" is just one of those songs where the video is the first thing I think of when I hear it.

    Another prime example...

     

    Cradle of Love also, but I'm trying to follow the rules

     

     

    Cradle of Love is another example of a "girl in music video I fell in love with."  But yeah, rules. 

     

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