Video Time: Sing - Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls are one of my favorite bands and this is one of their best songs. There are two versions of this video but I like this one better because a friend of mine is in it.

Video Time: Ready To Go

This week, Video Time moves out of the 80s and straight into the mid 90s! Republica burned hot and fast but while they were around they put out some rockin' electronic music. I saw them live in '97 and it was a hell of a show. Kinda like this video but louder.

Video Time: Head Over Heels

Video Time is still in the 80s. "Head Over Heels" is my favorite track from Songs From The Big Chair. Tears For Fears was the first concert I ever went to where I paid for the ticket with my own money. It was an awesome show.

Also, the video has a chimp in a library! Genius!

Video Time: Invisible Sun

This week on Video Time, it's another Police song: Invisible Sun.

Can you tell I like the depressing ones?

Video Time: Synchronicity II

It's not comics-related but I thought I'd resurrect Video Time. This time, it's The Police: Synchronicity II.

This video is one of the things from my formative years that really shaped my aesthetic. The post-apocalyptic, thrown-together look showed up in nearly every role-playing game and short story I created for the next ten years. Plus, it's a kickass song.

Video Time!: Little Dee!

Little Dee is one of my favorite webcomics. It's cute, funny, and well-drawn. The video above is taken directly from a couple of weeks' worth of strips and, well, you just have to see it. No one can be told what "We Rogues of Wool" is.

Video Time: Split Enz - One Step Ahead

Here's another one from Split Enz. Man, this was 80s, 80s, 80s!

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Video Time: Split Enz - I Got You

The Crowded House video I posted the other day got me thinking about Split Enz which was Neil Finn's band before Crowded House. When this song was recorded in 1980, Neil was a couple of years younger than his son Liam (who tours with Crowded House) is now.

Video Time: Crowded House - Mean To Me

Crowded House got the band back together, man! They came to town last month and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Here's "Mean To Me" from 1986. It's my favorite Crowded House single. Enjoy!

Video Time!: Yello feat. Shirley Bassey - The Rhythm Divine

Yello didn't allow the "electronic music" label to restrict them. In 1987 they teamed up with Shirley Bassey (singing) and Billy MacKenzie (lyrics) to produce my favorite Yello song of all time. It's on my personal soundtrack.

Video Time!: Paranoimia

Here's another Art of Noise video. This one's got Max Headroom. This post couldn't be any more 80s if it had leg warmers on it.

Links + Video Time! Yello - Bostich

Brian Hughes salutes Fred Hembeck: Proto-Blogger!

Randy Lander asked us to, "watch the fireworks" after Heidi MacDonald's piece on autobiographical comics. Here they are! Also, I'm "this guy" in the 4th paragraph.

Dude, what was with the 90s? The fine fellows at Jimmy Olsen's Blues don't know either but they do have a feature on the lame-ass costumes that came out of that decade.

Scott from Polite Dissent posts (among other things) medical reviews of comics. He tells it like it is for good or ill.

Do you know about Blogger Play yet?

And now it's Video Time!!
Yello, the band who did "Oh, Yeah" from the Ferris Bueller soundtrack, consists of a couple of Swiss guys who made some of the best dance music that's ever been recorded. They, along with the Art of Noise, are among the godfathers of electronica.

Here's "Bostich" from 1980 (the video was made four years later) and it is a perfect example of their tongue-in-cheek attitude:

Video Time!: Art of Noise

Heidi Meeley, the blogger with the strength of ten bloggers, has been posting awesome metal videos. Here's her latest.

Since she's got the metal thing covered, I'm going to throw some old-school electronic music at you. Here's the Art of Noise with Beatbox: