Our second All Hallows Even clip is Rick Springfield's "Human Touch." This is Springfield's second appearance on ERV; his cover of Sammy Hagar's "I've Done Everything for You" was featured on our little blog way back in 2012.
"Human Touch" came in the midst of Rick Springfield's heyday - between 1981 and 1988 he had 16 top 40 hits and five top 40 albums. Over time, we've come around on his work - there is a fair amount of solid pop rock songs in his catalog, including this one. Helped by the slightly odd video, the song hit #18 on the charts, while the Living in Oz album reached #12 and would become the third of four consecutive Springfield albums to go platinum.
The apocalyptic sci-fi video starts with some small skeleton people wondering into a lab that contains Rick and ... a bunch of dancers, it seems. The year: 2016. The world seems to be a total wasteland (sadly, Springfield might not have been that far off about 2016). There is then a bunch of dancing, some computers, and a four eyed saxophonist (no, not with glasses ... but with four actual eyes). The result is an odd but fun video, which is easily recognizable as an 80s clip (the special effects ... oh my).
The sci-fi elements, set, and costumes make this an excellent Halloween video, and we hope that our reader(s) enjoy it as much as we did.
Hi, doing ok? No posts for a year!
ReplyDeleteYea, thanks for checking. Hoping to post some stuff again soonish.
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