My dad has this attachment to 50s rock and roll and he rightly believes everything in pop music was invented in the 50s and possibly the 60s.

I remember most of these songs (the british ones) coming out and me being fascinated by what could be done differently to what was then the mainstream. However pop quickly devolved through the 80s and I found myself meandering back in time, from late to early Talking Heads, from late to early Genesis and Floyd and Yes and Jethro Tull and Mike Oldfield and Fleetwood Mac, discovering the Beatles and the Beach Boys were actually good at some point, finding out Frank Zappa was a thing and discovering that yes, the guy who made late 20th century pop music up in his garage, with his searches for new sounds and writing his own music and lyrics was indeed one Buddy Holly in the 50s.

Anyway I found myself listening to a rather childish track by Basement Jaxx years later and could not quite put my finger on what made that one track work for me. All these bands that only have one really good track... Anyway what was going on was a Gary Numan sample.

So I went back and listened to some of this old stuff and I was really surpised that some of it still works.

But back in 1980 if you heard Numan, early Midge Ure Ultravox minus the ubiquitous title track of the album, Visage, or a couple of years later the Eurythmics you would hear a sound that was strikingly new and different.

Thinking back Peter Gabriels 3rd solo album (although itself very electronic) took me out of the electronic pop bandcamp and more into alternative rock. That and lucking into a friend who had an older brother who had all the old Genesis records also as sheet music including lyrics. That or David Byrne.

The main point is the music you like is the music you liked when you were 13.

Speaking of music from this film-Of all the Eurythmic's LP's, their soundtrack for this film, my all-time favorite-Highly recommended grooves.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Tonight Show, Pumpcast, News, Bon Jovi, Eurythmics' to 'Tonight Show, Pumpcast, News, Bon Jovi, Eurythmics, Costco' - edited by lucky760

In case anybody cares, a list of songs\sound bytes used, indexed by time:

0:00 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
0:05 - Yolanda Be Cool Feat DCUP - We No Speak Americano
0:13 - Outhere Brothers - I Wanna Fuck You In the Ass
0:16 - John Williams - Cantina Band
0:23 - Benny Benassi ft. Gary Go - Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
0:28 - Tiny Tim - Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight
0:40 - Nigel Thornberry (I'll Do This, With My Hands)
0:43 - A Day To Remember - Mr. Highway's Thinking About The End
0:50 - Garbage - Cherry Lips
0:58 - Skrillex - First of the Year (Equinox)
1:06 - Chip tha Ripper - S.L.A.B. Freestyle
1:11 - Haddaway - What is Love
1:19 - Super Mario World - Ending Theme
1:24 - Lost Horizon - Highlander (The One)
1:30 - R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
1:33 - Moldova - Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira
1:40 - Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
1:47 - Gunther - Ding Dong Song
1:57 - El Mudo - Chacarron Macarron
2:06 - DMX - Where Da Hood At
2:12 - Orgazmo Theme Song (Now You're A Man)
2:21 - Trey Parker - America (Fuck Yeah)
2:31 - Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
2:35 - Eminem - Just Lose It
2:42 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)
2:48 - Garbage - Cherry Lips
2:54 - Paul Engemann - Push it To the Limit
3:06 - Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line
3:11 - 50 Cent - In Da Club
3:17 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)
3:21 - Lionel Richie - Hello

Ahh memories of the time before the personal queue, back when unsifted videos would just be discarded. The poor discarded videos only hope was the save invocation.
>> ^deathcow:

what the hell did the save tag do

Thanks for the promote.
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Fixed, thanks for the note.
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sorry you're right, it didn't read the message youtube gave me. it's not dead but blocked (because of a claim by Vevo, or something)

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It was working for me when I checked it. Can you double check?

Thanks

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It was working for me when I checked it. Can you double check?

Thanks

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My pleasure, I heard this tune again the other day and when I found that it was languishing in your PQ I had to get it out

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Damn! thanks for the promote! Glad someone appreciates this classy 80s vid like I do!

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Damn! thanks for the promote! Glad someone appreciates this classy 80s vid like I do!

I finally understand what mom was going on and on about when listening to Annie Lennox. As a kid eurythmics was catchy and all, but now that I have a "proper" appreciation of music, it hits home and my eyes are open to what I missed earlier.

May I also reccomend this one as a follow-up:
"Eurythmics singing an acoustic version 'There Must Be An Angel 'live' on Parkinson."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNpvM2Nf28

i've never heard the original of this song, so i have nothing to compare it to (i was expecting eurythmics as well); that said, it's a pretty awesome song, though i don't plan on ever hearing the original now for fear of ruining my first impression from this song.

^
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Ya, I don't listen to Beyonce - and didn't know she had a song by the same name - After listing to it, I realized... Ya, still never heard it before... I was also hopin' for the Eurythmics!

She's good, but I can't be the only geezer here that was expecting a Eurythmic's cover.