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On Vh1- It's like a car accident. Gruesome but I have to keep watching.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Ok Supultura is on. They all stole Ted Nugent's hair from 1982. The drummer thinks he's Neil Peart (or however you spell it)

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

The vocals are amazing, he just goes: GWWRROOOOAARRRR every few minutes

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Now it's Hanoi Rocks. I *know* I saw these guys buying AquaNet in Hollywood back in the 80s. If I close my eyes, and ignore the lead guitar, they could be a new wavw band. Odd.Decent bass player, new wavy-guuitar licks and THEN - the power chords and unison shouting over a Kiss-style cowbell that make it metal, I suppose.

They sound like someone put Kiss, Cheap Trick, and Tom Petty in a blender.

They do have good taste in guitars, I'll give them that. I espy a Gibson ES335 I think.

Their chorus is so unfortunate.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

OMG the lead singer looks like Courtney Love before the plastic surgery
OMG WTF-some chick is cartwheeling over Jaguars--its.....Whitesnake--a dreaded power ballad.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Wait--THREE keyboard players!!!! Playing the same chord! Someone alert Sonic Boom!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

HAHA! She is practically fuckinga British racing green Jaguar, the whole things looks like a Breck shampoo commerical.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Now we have....Scorpions, who are letting the T & A do the talking for them.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

They are trying really hard to be Van Halen.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

We are to believe they are Cool.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Gags--BONHAM!!! Silly silly silly silly boy dancing

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

See, this is why I don't think I would have really enjoyed living in the '80s as a teenager -- having to sit through dog's bollocks like this... whatever this is. Crispy fried hair atop heads in which reside crispy fried brains. A time period when ripped acid washed denim actually seemed like a good idea and god-awful rock cliches abounded not only in the music videos but also in the music itself. The only exceptions to the rule are the darker metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth and the pop-metalists who were actually, dare I say it, TALENTED (e.g. Def Leppard, who is perhaps the only hair band of the '80s out there who should not feel embarrassed by their '80s oeuvure).

Oh dear Lord. Saxon. They so desperately want to be Judas Priest but can never be that good.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

What "Europe" Where did these guys come from? Never heard of them. What are these synths doing in a metal band? Oh wait, there's fog. And timecoding. Dee what does it mean?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

HOLY SHIT, THIS IS THE VH1 CLASSIC TEMPLE OF CRAP. The abomination that is Eddie Trunk introducing the abomination that is Europe's "The Final Countdown" -- I am so glad that S.A., while being a hard rockin' town (there is an unofficial rule that everyone who is raised here who was born from 1968 onward has to have a metal phase somewhere in their teenaged years), has never played this at a single Spurs game in my living memory. "Are You Ready For This?" gets played into the ground, sure, but not this... whatever this is.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

You've never heard of Europe, Orbit? You lucky, lucky, lucky person.

"This" = the trifecta of '80s hair band crap, i.e. shit music, shit video, and an overflow of cliches.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Ok hahhaa Iron Maiden-Temple of Icarus.
Boring studio interspersed with hooded dude on beach. Verses a Zep rip off.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh wow. A brief respite into the world of music that can actually be called "metal" -- Iron Maiden. "Flight Of Icarus" might be a really bad video, but the song itself is classic.

Ha ha ha. This is the thread where Dee gets transported back to the days when she was a teenager who'd listen to the local all-metal radio station about three nights a week and who was well aware of Budgie and UFO and Rainbow, etc. Oh! Did I mention before that one of the very first vinyl covers I ever saw in my entire life was an Iron Maiden one I espied at an older cousin's house?

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

The singer looks like Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap. O wait.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Flight, Temple, whatever. I think my brane might be burnt out.

Okay. That was fun.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

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