Retro Weekend: Canadian 80s Videos
The 80s were a special time in pop music: New Wave, post-punk, electro-pop, hip-hop and 2nd-wave ska! And coupled with the new medium of music video, it was all so fresh bright, and colourful, just like this endearingly silly, but really well-edited clip from M+M (aka Martha and the Muffins, at that point down to the duo of Martha Johnson and Mark Gane).
It’s None More Toronto In The Eighties: the neon colours, the “showing how the video is made” conceit, the line-of-random-people-dancing, Mark Gane’s electric-blue, high-waisted tapered pants…awesome.
Next up is everyone’s cheesy favourite, Gowan, sorry, make that Larry Gowan, sorry, make that Lawrence Gowan, strike that, make that Sir Lawrence de Dennis-Miller-If-He-Wanted-To-Be- The-Toronto-Version-Of-Peter-Gabriel Gowan, aka, the current lead singer of Styx (!!!) with Strange Animal.
Ohh those poofy poodle cuts…and a guy playing a Chapman Stick!
Last up is of course, the eternal inspiration for electro-disco remixers the world over, Corey Hart’s Sunglasses At Night - here presented as a mash-up with Justin Timberlake’s SexyBack:
April 14, 2007 2:35 PM
