Remembering 1986

Videomixtape (July 5)

This we turn the heat up a little bit higher, with a selection of rock/metal songs! Enjoy those week's VIdeomixtape!

SIDE A of Videomixtape (July 5)






SIDE B of Videomixtape (July 5)

Videomixtape (June 28)

Thursdays have become my default "RETRO" day of the week, as I bounce serendipitously down memory-lan and indulge in remembering the tunes of the '80s. Ignoring this blog in favor of Facebook, I have been posting music videos from select folks for a while now, each with a lil'snippet of a note along with them, but somehow too short to be posted here?

So without the need to start a new tumblr, or deny this blog it's relevance, I've since started a way to make updates wrk both on my Facebook (which frankly get's more response than this blog) and here … "VIDEOMIXTAPES"!

The concept of video-mix-tapes is simple. I will choose and post a series of approx 5 songs on "each side" of an imaginary cassette mix-tape via music videos from Youtube, and you listen, that's it! LOL

Here is SIDE A of the TOYSREVIL Videomixtape (June 28)






Here is SIDE B of the TOYSREVIL-Mixtape (June 28)

Then & Now: Tainted Love

A recognizable 80's tune was Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" (above) which has been covered by a variety of folks in a variety of music genres - which most times failed to capture the allure of the Soft Cell's cover - yes, I am biased (heh), and yes, "cover" = as it was the original version by Gloria Jones in 1964 that still reins supreme - whatever incarnation it has been out thru throughout the decades, IMHO.


[Jazzed-up version by ‪Stella Starlight Trio‬]

[epic heavy beats by Marilyn Manson]

[absolutety bleak cover by COIL]

[1964 version by Gloria Jones]
ADDED "Bonus" Video:

[Spike Jonze-directed ommercial for LEVI'S]

Then & Now: Sweet Dreams

"Sweet Dreams - original version above from Eurythmics. Below is the Marilyn Manson version. Winner: Eurythmics. I do like Marilyn's version too tho … at least more attitude than the Emily Browning version in the Zack Snyder-movie: Sucker Punch (See video below) which is still pretty utilitarian-processed-pop-decent ... well, heard thru earphones anyways :)



[Above: Sucker Punch OST / Below: Sequence from actual movie]