Showing posts with label Cheesy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheesy. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby

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Although he was a funk artist, Rick James lived like a rock star. Huge highs, crashing lows, drugs, and horrific personal behavior defined m...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Laura Branigan - Gloria

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Long time ERV readers will know that we love to feature covers, especially when the remake is a big hit.  For instance, we have previously p...
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes

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Dirty Dancing was one of the least likely movies to ever become a hit, and the goes doubly so for the soundtrack.  The movie was a low budg...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Judas Priest - Hot Rockin'

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Way back on August 7, 2011, when we hung out a shingle and opened for business, Judas Priest's " Breaking the Law " was the la...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Warrant - Down Boys

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Warrant was the band that everybody loved in 1989, and many claimed to hate by 1991.  The truth is Warrant were neither rock gods nor demons...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff

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While the Fabulous Thunderbirds 1986 album Tuff Enough was a commercial success, many fans and critics were disappointed by the record.  It...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Biz Markie - Just A Friend

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By mixing comedy, fresh rhymes and cheesy singing, Biz Markie created some solid and fun rap during the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Biz (gi...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Elvis Is Everywhere

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Every now and then, MTV would highlight something bizarre -- as in straight out of Dr. Demento  bizarre.  (Weird Al immediately comes to min...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Marty Balin - Hearts

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Marty Balin's "Hearts" is the first of two "jailhouse rock" videos.  The video is a wonderful smorgasbord of early 1...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Honeymoon Suite - Feel It Again

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"Feel It Again" was Honeymoon Suite's only top 40 U.S. hit, and it remains something of a guilty pleasure for me. The band ori...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Jacksons - Can You Feel It

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You have to hand it to the Jacksons -- when they went big, they really went big.  Case in point:  the 9+ minute video for "Can You Fee...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Steel Breeze - You Don't Want Me Anymore

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A testament to the growing power of MTV, "You Don't Want Me Anymore" became a hit for Steel Breeze in 1982.  The song was undo...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Hyts - Backstabber

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Here at ERV, we realize that there is a wide range of videos that could be considered rare, and we try to run the gamut.  In fact we even pu...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Y & T - Summertime Girls

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Y&T was a band that was playing the right kind of music at the right time, but somehow never really broke through.  The band formed in O...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Rocky Burnette - Tired of Toein' the Line

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Rocky Burnette (given name: Jonathan), was the son of early rocker Johnny Burnette.  Johnny wrote "You're Sixteen," later made...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Romantics - One in a Million

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The Romantics (named because the band formed on Valentine's Day 1977) were a Detroit-based power pop band with clear British Invasion in...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Dwight Twilley - Girls

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Mixing rockabilly, country and British Invasion pop, Tulsa-born Dwight Twilley does not fit neatly into one music segment.  Combine this wit...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Flirts - Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)

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While there was some great music played on MTV in the early days, the station also played some ... well, not-so-great (or WTF??) music too. ...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Aldo Nova - Fantasy

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Another wonderfully ridiculous video featuring supernatural guitars (see Breaking the Law  for an earlier example).  Set in the future (or a...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law

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Wonderfully ridiculous video, but based on a true story (no, not really). We particularly like the intro, with the pigeon-feeding, guitar-c...