Bowling for Soup's "1985" video:
The song, "1985" was a hit back in 2004 by pop-punk band Bowling for Soup. It was a re-worked cover version of the same song by SR-71. I'm probably late to the party but I don't ever remember hearing this song back in 2004. I just heard it recently somewhere at a store, so I looked up the video. I couldn't stop laughing...(I'm easily amused by the way)!
Love the 80's spoof references:
Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video
80's B-boys, Breaking and Adidas
George Michael's "Faith"
Motley Crue outfits (loved the polka dotted Nikki Sixx costume!)
Tawny Kitaen & her muscle car straddling skillz a la "Here I Go Again" (Whitesnake video - the lead singer, Robert Plant wanna-be David Coverdale was boning her at the time)
Other 80's pop culture references (from wikipedia's entry on "1985 (song)":
Detailed references:
1 - Whitesnake and the music video for the 1987 version of "Here I Go Again" that featured Tawny Kitaen dancing on cars
2 - The line "Never knew George was gay, hoped they'd hook up one day" (SR-71 version only) is a reference to former Wham! member George Michael who revealed many years later that he is homosexual.
3 - Asking why Sammy Hagar is singing in Van Halen (Bowling for Soup version only)
4 - Questioning why Mötley Crüe has become classic rock
5 - A time when sitcoms and game shows were popular and reality shows were nonexistent
6 - A reference to "...on the radio," which resembles the timbre of the voice singing the verses in The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first video ever played on MTV when it debuted in 1981 (Bowling for Soup version only).
7 - A time when music videos were still shown on MTV (MTV has been criticized for a lack of music videos since the sudden popularity of their reality show The Real World in 1992).
8 - Ozzy Osbourne, before he was an actor (Bowling for Soup version only)
9 - When Madonna and U2 were popular, long before Nirvana popularized grunge in the early 1990s.
10 - They mentioned Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen, and Blondie.
11 - References made to The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire (Bowling for Soup version only) and Fast Times At Ridgemont High (SR-71 version only). However, Pretty in Pink is an anachronism, as it wasn't released until 1986.
12 - The line "She rocked out to Wham!, not a big Limp Bizkit fan" is a reference to Wham! being popular long before Limp Bizkit started playing Nu Metal in 1995. (Limp Bizkit remade Wham! singer George Michael's "Faith").
Also, for those of you with kids who watch "Phineas and Ferb", the theme song is performed by Bowling for Soup. You can tell by the lead singer's nasally voice (is that even a word?):
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5 comments:
Hey CC - I love this song......so much that I bought the CD...... in this day and age. And don't tell the Missus, but I love the Tawny Kitaen reference....
hey kirk - did you JUST buy it or you bought it awhile ago? just curious...
tawny kitaen - setting the standards high! ha ha!
she was to later end up in the news for physically abusing her athlete boyfriend; i think she was also in one of thos vh-1 reality shows.
Hi CC, I can still sing most of "Here I go again" and proud of it.. ;)
I bought it when the song was first released.
hi dennis - so can i!!!! i loved whitesnake! they had such a rad guitarist (vivian campbell, then replaced by steve vai!) i'm a total rocker chick!
hi kirk - wow, i'm really late to the party. i guess it's because i don't listen to the radio. i am stuck in my 80's time warp! i checked out the other BFS videos and they are all pretty hilarious!
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