I'M STILL STANDING! ---> yeah! -----> yeah! ------->yeah!

the only elton john song I like.

my wife hates it (she prefers "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" cuz she has a crush on Kiki Dee)

This is I'M STILL STANDING in its true glory.

This is the world's most BITCHINEST song And video!

I like that there is 2 seconds of him putting his hand on the butt of a bikini babe to attempt to counteract the other 3:05 fantastic leather bellhops.

I love that video, saw it all the time when it was a current single.

I very much wish I could be in this video. The dancing is the BITCHINEST dancing in the world!

The director did Bonnie Tyler's BRIGHT EYES video too.

I think this is what Richard O'Brien wishes his life was.

is the "I don't have AIDS!" subtext of this song all in my mind...?

YES, YES IT IS

Hello! "Looking like a true survivor...after all this time. yeah! yeah! yeah!"

to say: I thought that too

oh dan perry doesn't think abt aids

Maybe it's about how he is still proud his legs work

I will always associate this song (and Mellancamp's "Small Town") with this heartwrenching tv movie I stayed up late to watch when I was ten (both songs were in the movie). I cried.

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Lots of fists in the here video. "

lolz

He kind of looks like a Pet Shop Boy in this video!

original "I Don't Have AIDS" chorus deemed "not-catchy-enough" by Bernie Taupin

OMG G00blar I would cry too!

can we talk about how much better this song is than his other 80s singles, esp "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"

It would be better if the "yeah! yeah! yeah!" was "I Don't! Have! AIDS!"

I want to sing this at karaoke SO BAD you have no idea.

I think I have watched this video 35 times in the past two days.

http://images14.fotki.com/v363/photos/6/6766/26672/bruno_video-vi.jpg

^^^NAUGHTY

Hey maybe the 'I-don't-have-AIDS-subtext' was the reason they used it in that movie.

what movie, AIDS: The Musical?

esp "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"

I guess now we know who doesn't roll like thundah under the covers.

That song is maudlin, dull pap, and they don't say "yeah! yeah! yeah! I'M STILL STANDING!" even once in it.

No, the movie about the kid who got AIDS.

Taupin cracks me up, dude writing all these songs about Hard Men with Hard Lives for this complete princess to sing.

I wonder if that movie is on Netflix.

User Comments: Not Bad For a Health Class Video.

I had to watch The Ryan White Story in health class this week. It has movie of the week written all over it. The movie does not get into any medical or scientific discussion of AIDS and I don't expect it to. Its not a movie I would choose to show in health class, but as any student at Grant High School would know, ANYTHING is better than listening to a certain health teacher (I won't say his name) talk. The Ryan White Story is also not the worst movie Mr. Jacobs showed in his class (oops!).

oops!

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5782/f5660986ab63694c2ea8815va3.gif

OMG I kiss you symbol on Turkey flag!

Director also made Rod Stweart's Young Turks an equally bitching song and k-super video!

HA, we had to watch the Ryan White story in class, too. It has some of Judith Light's finest tv movie moments. I think this was back in 1989 or so.

OMG I'M ON DRUGZ

The first 16 seconds increased my blood pressure.

I'M STILL STANDING

Same director for Heartache..., too!

All of Judith Light's tv moments were fine.

That video made my night. Thank you Abbott.

I think "Leather Jackets" probably has AIDS.

Have you seen the Total Eclipse of the Heart video ENBB? Same director and just as fun/insane! NINJAS. There are ninjas and Catholic boys getting doused in water.

the infamous Seth Putnam of band A.C. (it stands for something that rhymes with Fanal Funt) claimed he used to perform this song live and dedicate it to someone in the audience that was handicapped.

What a tool.

Director also did the videos for Sex (I'm A...) and most of Duran Duran's early vids.

Last one NSFW or Very Solemn Occasions.

There's a ballroom Kingfish '80s zombie in it!

I. You people who hated on I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues are crazy.

II. The Young Turks video is soooo great. It's like the McDonald's dancing scene from Mac and Me.

III. I almost can't believe how great the song itself (Young Turks) is.

IV. Shakey's "NAUGHTY" post up there reminded me of this magazine from the eighties which, if I remember correctly, was completely dedicated to music videos. I remember one (that was particularly titillating to my eleven(?) year-old self) in which they had all these stills from parts of videos that had been banned from MTV for being too sexually graphic or whatever...Girls on Film, China Girl, etc. Does anyone else remember that magazine, or am I remembering it wrong, and was it just a special issue of Star Hits or something?

Abbott - what the hell did I just watch? TEotH video is phenomenal. I have to watch it again. I'm so confused! I can't even pick a favorite part. There is just too much goodness.

"FOREVER'S GONNA START TONIGHT!"

III. I almost can't believe how great the song itself (Young Turks) is.

yah i immediately downloaded not one but two rod stewart greatest hits collections

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=3922069&page=1

that video is the exact opposite of 'erotic'

Platonic?

The Berlin video? Jesus god I know but it is v. funny!

Some TEotH love:
- fencer takes off mask and water drips slowly all over his face
- backlit dancey leather dudes on staircase
- angel releases a dove (!!!!!)
-the kids at the end mouthing impossibly high-pitched "turn aaround BRIGHT EYES"
- football palyers!

I was watching later Berlin videos and I had no idea Terri Nunn got so goffed out eventually! (bandmates too)

I don't know what made me think about this thread but I <3 it. I think maybe I just wanted to watch the Total Eclipse of the Heart video again.

Also Young Turks = love.

OK, the choreographed dancing in Young Turks is A++.

TEotH might be the best video ever.

this thread's still standing!!

IV. Shakey's "NAUGHTY" post up there reminded me of this magazine from the eighties which, if I remember correctly, was completely dedicated to music videos. I remember one (that was particularly titillating to my eleven(?) year-old self) in which they had all these stills from parts of videos that had been banned from MTV for being too sexually graphic or whatever...Girls on Film, China Girl, etc. Does anyone else remember that magazine, or am I remembering it wrong, and was it just a special issue of Star Hits or something?

I think it was a magazine completely dedicated to music videos. And that one section featured the ones named above as well as stills from "Hello Again" by the Cars (directed by Andy Warhol), "Up the Creek" by Cheap Trick (featuring a topless Bun E. Carlos cavorting in a swimming pool with topless women) and I think the aforementioned "Sex (I'm a...)" Berlin video.

So dell, you weren't dreaming. I saw it too.

Young Turks is the video that makes me want to readopt my junior high hobby of learning and copying music video dances.

^ I could get behind this idea.

yeah! yeah! yeah!

Hahaha I <3 you for this thread (and your comic!) Abb x