söndag, januari 14, 2007

The 80s brought to you by Hybris

As a follow up to the previous post about how you download and also as a response to complaints from within the Hybris organisation of the "Steel guitar and stuff" Lemonheads used in "Big gay heart" we present to you: The 1980s as seen by the way of Hybris! This is the first in an endless serious of Youtube-themes we will give you.

The 80s. So lush, bombastic and vulgar. So much about dressing up. Fantastic!

Roxy Music - Avalon


Blue nile - Headlights on the parade


Black - Wonderful life


Chris Isaak - Wicked game


Martika - Toy soldiers


Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the heart


Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on earth


Sandra - Maria Magdalena (Keytarr!)


The Bangles - Eternal flame


Cindy Lauper - True Colors


Terence Trent Darby - Sign your name


Sade - Smooth operator


Bryan Ferry - Slave to love


Alphaville - Forever young


Falco - Rock me amadeus


Adam Ant - Goody two shoes


Adam ant deserves another
Adam Ant - Stand and deliver


David Bowie - Blue Jean


Eurythmics - There must be an angel


Soft cell - Tainted love


The Cure - Pictures of you


Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax


Wham - Club Tropicana


Duran Duran - Rio


David Bowie - Let's Dance


Miami vice - Theme


Talk Talk - It's my life


Elton John - I'm still standing


Bananarama - Cruel summer


Milli Vanilli - Girl you know it's true


A-ha - Take on me


OMD - If you leave


Starship - Nothings gonna stop us now


The Communards - Don't leave me this way


Blondie - Atomic


Modern Talking - Cheri cheri lady


Sweden was pretty much a developing country in the 80s when it came to class and sophistication but we had some nice artist then too, kind of lo-fi but still, this guy has some larger-than-life moves!
So what - I should be so lucky


Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up


Narada Michael Walden - Gimme Gimme Gimme


Laura Branigan - Self control


Chaka Khan - I feel for you


Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with somebody


Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - I've had the time of my life


Irene Cara - What a feeling


Berlin - Take my breath away


Jevetta Steele - Calling you


Robert Palmer took the Kraftwerk robot 70s style, applied it to girls and gave it an 80s touch. What can you say? Magic.
Robert Palmer - Addicted to love


More robot girls
Robert Palmer - Simply irresistable


ZZ Top - Rough boy


Skid Row - 18 and life


Greg Kihn - Jeopardy


Ok. Hope that was enough 80s bonanza for you. Next time we will try and assemble some 80s videos that for the untrained eye may look exactly like some of those collected above. Like this one for example:

Aztec Camera - Oblivous