Stupid February is so short that I didn’t remember to schedule Nasty Pirates night until the last day of the month. “No matter!” cried the pirates! (I mean, they are pirates, for goodness sake; it’s not like they’re tied to a calendar or something.) And so, February’s gathering of Nasty Pirates actually took place in March. (Please don’t tell the other pirates. They’ll be jealous of our flexibility for sure.)
This month’s festivities included a bunch of silly Youtube videos I’ve collected over the past few months, topped off with a few rounds of Pain and Tekken 6, both on the PS3. Food consisted of left-over Italian, and drinks consisted of left-over beer and wine. We also skipped through most of Tokyo Gore Police (stopping only at the “good” parts) and had an in depth discussion on what music videos were like before performers had choreographers.
You mean that wasn’t choreographed? Amazing! Looked like a cross between Flashdance and Risky Business!! Some things are better left to the imagination.
Oh my eyes! Hehe, I tink he would have been better off just sitting by the bed while we watched him sing. Some of his moves looked like they were from chitty chitty bang bang. :)
From the Billy Squier Wiki:
“Signs of Life…was his third consecutive Platinum album. The album’s first single release, “Rock Me Tonite” was Squier’s biggest ‘Pop’ hit. It reached #15 on Billboard’s Hot 100 – as well as #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart – in late 1984. However, the video for the track which shows Squier dancing around a bedroom in a pink tank top, frequently appears on “worst music video ever” lists.
“Billy Squier’s career took a major downturn afterward. His next two albums, …sold in the neighborhood of 300,000 copies each…The 1990s would find Squier largely off the radar and recording and performing considerably less.”
Yet, Mika’s We Are Golden reuses the theme of Billy Squire’s video (let’s dance and lipsync in the bedroom), except that Mika’s video is better directed and therefore it works. Even though he’s in his underwear in the video.