80s Music Video Flashbacks with Rick
http://www.youtube.com/v/DvNOZegkVXo&hl=en&fs=1
Its the Pre-New Years Post!
Hoooooly crap i love Def Leppard. They’re just so outlandishly gaudy for a brittish rock band and really, everything was phallic about their video clips. Phallic is good! TAKE THAT FEMINISTS!
Anywho, Right from the get go, the “Gunter glieben glauchen globen” was totally sampled by the offspring over 10-15 years later for Pretty Fly for a white guy, which in itself, was a shithole of a song. Dont even get me started on how poxy the Offsprings later offerings were and how much “Son, I am Disappoint” i was.
The line “Its better to burn out, than to fade away” is a clear reference to Hey Hey, My My by Neil Young. Why anyone would want to quote a Canadian is beyond me, but simply, it sounds better coming from a band that had a drummer with only one arm, or a band that had a lead singer that shot himself in the head with a shotgun in the 90s.
The great thing about this clip though was that it was one that was made before Rick Allen lost his arm in a coke fuelled car accident. Nothing is more rock n roll than getting high as a kite on coke in the 80s and getting into a high speed car crash in your corvette, only to lose an arm when you’re a drummer. Its like it was written for TV!
Well, All in all, the tight pants and rising hair (compared to anything from the Hysteria album, their hair is pretty tame) will be sure to have caused some sort of permanent testicular damage and mistaken gender identities at the time, which is really what we’re after in any sort of video clip of the era.
-Rick
