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YouTube, the new digital crack

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:27 am
by British
I could spend hours sifting through the 80s nostalgia in here. A Honda scooter commercial by Devo? Adam Ant and Grace Jones scooter commercial?

Then there's nostalgic stuff like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z39Ao3yAfVw">THIS.</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJhdJuZecmY">Jodie Foster singing in French?</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XluynKckE">Then there's super-rare stuff like The Speedies.</a>

Just do a tag search for 1979, 1980, 1981, etc and you'll find TONS of bizarre stuff, mostly new wave related. It was nice to finally watch the Laura Branigan "Gloria" video. Awww yeah.

Wonder if my account(BigTeebo) can pubilcly share the favorites listed.

Whoo hoo!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:41 am
by WolverineSyr
Thanks British!

This Natalie Portman short from SNL is KILLING ME!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qlXQ-E ... %20portman

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:12 am
by Berserker
[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>Thanks British!

This Natalie Portman short from SNL is KILLING ME!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qlXQ-E ... %20portman


[/quote]Looks like SNL has sicced their lawyers on YouTube.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:21 am
by WolverineSyr
That was quick....

Looks like it's back up today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuEX1DO ... %20portman

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:04 am
by Ollie Stench
Thanks to youtube I was able to relive DEVO on Fridays, the performance that convinced me DEVO were gods among us mere mortals.

You guys check out the live-action Simpsons intro?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:26 am
by SomebodySomewhere
[quote][i]Originally posted by British[/i]
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XluynKckE">Then there's super-rare stuff like The Speedies.</a>[/quote]

The Speedies made all of their videos available on their website...

http://www.speediesremix.com/video.htm

...which is good, because Viacom seems to have lost their copies.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:30 am
by WolverineSyr
[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>Thanks to youtube I was able to relive DEVO on Fridays, the performance that convinced me DEVO were gods among us mere mortals.

You guys check out the live-action Simpsons intro?
[/quote]

I love being able to see some of those old tv performances - Blondie on the Midnight Special - with a Wolfman Jack intro no less!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:04 am
by spohlso
I may need to go to some sort of youtube rehab soon.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:59 am
by Ollie Stench
While we're talking about youtube please allow me to whore myself just a little bit.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=d ... rch=Search

These are full episodes of a cable access tv show I co-produce, edit, and play a small part on.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:59 am
by TheMunDial
Yeah, YouTube is great, that is, until American Idol threatened to sue me. Now they're blackballing my content...

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It's THRILLING! It's GLORIFICENT! It's the best thing to happen to the Internet since the New Wave Outpost (and porn)! It's my brand-spankin' new BLOG! Click away and taste unbridled euphoria!

http://alfredeus.blogspot.com

PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:05 am
by Mechi
YouTube's become my best friend (joking): all those Depeche Mode/Siouxsie/OMD/Bauhaus/Joy Division/The Cure videos.... yummy!!!!

Videos para videoadictos!!! What a site!!


Mercedes

PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:51 am
by xthirtyonex
Oh yeah...youtube is definitely in my system. i make frequent trips down memory lane over there to the glorious 80's when I had little to no responsibility, lots of energy for dancing all night and great new music coming out constantly.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:20 am
by hexicon
OMG I am so justifying this as research for my book!

PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:28 am
by Bitter Almonds
Veeeery addicting. I can spend HOURS in this site easy. They don't carry everything, though. I searched for UB40's "Red Red Wine" and Simply Red's "Holding Back The Years" and came out empty[V] I don't particularly like those songs, but the videos were these incredible British kitchen-sink type of stuff, especially the UB40 one!

PostPosted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:33 am
by toe_jam_on_toast
loving youtube!!

theres a link to the simpsons real life sequence somewhere on here...in NNNW

that was an amazing sequence!!