I petition you, not as writers, but as citizens with functioning ears and eyes...

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

to settle a dispute I'm having with a much learned career-dj friend of mine. Which video is worse?

Option 1 (I'm sorry)

Option 2 (Again, I apologize)

Smish · Apr 10, 2010

Okay, after watching the first one, I can't imagine how the second could be worse. The arms and alien fingers were creepy.

But I'm going to watch the second now...

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

Smish said:
Okay, after watching the first one, I can't imagine how the second could be worse. The arms and alien fingers were creepy.

But I'm going to watch the second now...

Like I said, I'm really sorry.

Angie · Apr 10, 2010

They are both truly, truly horrible. But You Spin Me is worse. Though it does have an unintentionally funny quality...

Smish · Apr 10, 2010

It was a close call, but the creepy-color-guard-slash-synchronized-swimmer moves were slightly worse than Tarzan Boy.

Smish

Cella · Apr 10, 2010

I think the first one was worse but there was at least a little variation.

The second was pretty boring.

Also with the first, the men all tied up together spinning right 'round was comedy I wasn't quite ready for...

btw, perks, I'm going to try and get those eight minutes back somehow, lol!

wrangler · Apr 10, 2010

Without a doubt, Tarzan Boy (Option 2) was the absolute worse for me.

Death Wizard · Apr 10, 2010

My gawd. How in the world could stuff like this actually make it anywhere???

Thanks for the great laugh! On a scale of 1-10, I would rate the first as a .2 and the second as a .3.

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

I just wrote this elsewhere, so I should explain myself -

What's funny is how I came across the video in the first place. I've managed, for eleven years, only to watch the children's films that I've wanted to watch - with a handful of notable exceptions, tonight's being, 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel'.

They sing, You Spin Me Right Round (although I bet their video is better) and I had to go looking for it to prove to the girls that it was an old song.

So, Cella, you may want eight minutes back, but I'm out about an hour, forty-five.

Jersey Chick · Apr 10, 2010

MY EYES!!!

I had to vote for Baltimora (though I do like the song. I still see the Listerine bottle swinging through the jungle.) I couldn't finish that awful video. I tried. I really did (and this was the first time I've ever even seen it. I didn't get my MTv until 1990,

)

However, the Dead or Alive one is one I've seen before. I knew what to expect...

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

I don't know. The Tarzan Boy guy just doesn't squick me out like the weirdo from Wanted Dead or Alive.

Certainly though, it is the devil and the deep blue sea.

Cella · Apr 10, 2010

Perks said:
, 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel'.

wait...they called it that on purpose? I just thought my friend kept having something stuck in her throat every time she talked about seeing it... (she's a teacher, that's why she was seeing it. not cuz she's lame. she's not lame.)

Jersey Chick · Apr 10, 2010

Yep - It's called The Squeakquel - my daughter got it for Easter and I am avoiding it like the plague. We had a mom and daughter movie night and I told her she could pick anything BUT either of the Chipmunk movies...

We watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

The Dead or Alive guy doesn't squick me - probably because back in the day, I thought he was a she (I was kinda dumb at 13 when this song came out...) The Baltimore guy scares me. He's like a David Bowie wannabe, only w/out being Bowie...

cscarlet · Apr 10, 2010

The first one... It's the only one that has a "literal" version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb2t0yqkmug

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

Jersey Chick said:
The Baltimore guy scares me. He's like a David Bowie wannabe, only w/out being Bowie...

I was thinking he had a lesser Tim Curry-Dr. Frank N. Furter deal going on.

jennontheisland · Apr 10, 2010

The first one because I can't hear that song without thinking of "meatspin" (don't google that. trust me.)

jennontheisland · Apr 10, 2010

Perks said:
I was thinking he had a lesser Tim Curry-Dr. Frank N. Furter deal going on.

No. Not even close. Frank N. Furter was awesome. That was just bad 80s androgyny.

Jersey Chick · Apr 10, 2010

Perks said:
I was thinking he had a lesser Tim Curry-Dr. Frank N. Furter deal going on.

Naaaah... Tim Curry = cool

Baltimora dude = WTF and where's the brain bleach?

Perks · Apr 10, 2010

jennontheisland said:
No. Not even close. Frank N. Furter was awesome. That was just bad 80s androgyny.

Okay a much lesser Curry/Furter. Lol!

I never really got into Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I can appreciate how great he was in that.

backslashbaby · Apr 12, 2010

You toast me light brown, baby, light brown. Like a bagel, baby, light brown, light brown

That's how we sang it back in the day

BenPanced · Apr 12, 2010

Here's the version Dead Or Alive recorded in 2003 to help pay for lead singer Pete Burns' plastic surgery addiction. (No, I'm not being facetious. He's had more procedures than a government office handbook.)

And I need to go look up some additional information, but the guy in the Baltimora video isn't singing lead. BRB...

Okay. From Wikipedia:

Jimmy McShane, from Derry in Northern Ireland, was the frontman of the group. Lead vocals were performed by Maurizio Bassi (with Jimmy actually providing the backing vocals), including lead vocals on their biggest hit "Tarzan Boy" despite the fact that McShane lip synched while appearing in the "Tarzan Boy" music video and not Bassi, who was also the group's keyboardist.

Adam · Apr 12, 2010

Tarzan Boy. I hate the "fancy" 80s effects.

(And yes, no one look up meatspin.com

)

robeiae · Apr 12, 2010

This thread will make Kevin cry...

Well done, Perks!

Williebee · Apr 12, 2010

Had to vote for Right Round, if only because it gave us this

seun · Apr 12, 2010

Dead Or Alive if only because Pete Burns is a total dickhead.

I petition you, not as writers, but as citizens with functioning ears and eyes...

Which video hits the back of your throat harder?

You Spin Me Right Round, by Wanted Dead or Alive

Tarzan Boy, by Baltimora

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Reads more than she writes.

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Shaddup and lemme think.

Reads more than she writes.

Cella

Dearest Strumpets and Knaves:

Tumhe na koci puujetha

delicate #!&@*#! flower

Up all night to get Loki

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Cella

Up all night to get Loki

AW = Procrastination.

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the world is at my command

the world is at my command

Up all night to get Loki

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THE BLUEBERRY QUEEN OF HADES (he/him)

Not dead.

Touch and go

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

Horror Man

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