Atrios, suffering from BDS, LIES about the greatest video ever. We fact-check his ass:
For, as it says in the Book of Jarvis, the blogosphere is perfectly self-correcting.
December 4, 2008
December 4, 2008
Atrios, suffering from BDS, LIES about the greatest video ever. We fact-check his ass:
For, as it says in the Book of Jarvis, the blogosphere is perfectly self-correcting.
December 4, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Diamond Dave in a walk.
December 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I vote for Queen.
December 4, 2008 at 9:55 pm
a more direct retort
December 4, 2008 at 10:06 pm
The Queen part is right, but I’m pretty sure you meant to link to…
DON’T STOP ME NOW!
December 4, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’m partial to this clip of Alex Harvey doing Jacques Brel’s “Next.” Sorta like if De Niro had been a rock front man instead of an actor.
December 4, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Good think the internet like a giant spiral. What did I say last time?
December 4, 2008 at 11:58 pm
pinko
you are clearly as high as i think you are.
December 4, 2008 at 11:59 pm
and this is the greatest internet video ever:
http://anothergreenworld.blogspot.com/2008/12/ha-ha-fucking-ha.html
December 5, 2008 at 1:09 am
Dave really should’ve teamed up with some hot half-Injun chick and worked Vegas for a few years.
Tina Turner
Anna Mae Bullock was born as the younger of two girls in Brownsville, Tennessee, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee, on November 26, 1938, the daughter of Zelma (née Currie), a factory worker, and Floyd Richard Bullock, a Baptist deacon, farm overseer and factory worker.[23][24] She is of mostly African-American and European descent.[25][26] Bullock long believed her mother had significant Native American ancestry.[26][27] But the results of a DNA test featured on African American Lives 2 showed Bullock was only 1% Native American.[26] Bullock attended Flag Grove School in Haywood County, Tennessee. The land for the school was sold below market value to the school trustees by Bullock’s great, great-uncle in 1889.[26] The younger of two sisters, Bullock and her sister, Allene, grew up with their grandmother after their parents split when Bullock was ten. Bullock’s sister later moved to St. Louis. Bullock remained in Nutbush until her grandmother’s death and agreed to move in with her mother and sister at 16.
They could have had great fun. Ikettes, Davettes, Vanettes…
Tina had the mojo to keep Dave in step, and Dave had the ability hove so much dang fun.
Greatest Video?
Dancing Queen
But that’s in the Pure Camp category. For Strangely Transcendental Fruity Camp:
All Over The World
The fat flatulent drummer swishing his hair at the end: that’s neoMTV video magic.
But if I were to get all vulnerable, eschew studio direction, and get to a live performance where pretentiousness is permitted and carried by sheer power of moxified chutzpah, I’d vote this:
And there was cold beer at a reasonable price, and there were no fucking cellphones either! Pizza for everybody!
When overdoing it with raw hambone and rarefied schmaltz is the only way to do it.
December 5, 2008 at 1:19 am
Of course, if ye want to hear the actual song:
Frozen Ice Cream w/ Maximum Muzzle Flash at .99 C
December 5, 2008 at 1:21 am
Kenmeer, you dance like this:
December 5, 2008 at 1:39 am
But I wear a tighter tutu, and channel Stevie Nicks in her hallucinatory interpretive dance evocation of Edith Piaf teaching Gregg Easterbrook the kinematics of 3-D NFL chess. The effect is something like this:
December 5, 2008 at 1:42 am
OOPS!
A Gentler, Kinder, More Compassionately Conservative Pedophilia
December 5, 2008 at 1:49 am
Such exuberant sharing of deep aesthetic fetish deserves a celebration:
When Unicorns Ruled the Airwaves
December 5, 2008 at 7:19 am
I always thought it was Spinal Tap’s: Hellhole. The large skeletal hand wicking away the whole band at the end is teh kul.
December 5, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hey THIS is the way you dance:
December 5, 2008 at 9:38 am
I was saving that one for you, secondharmonic. Besides, umlauts give me hives.
December 5, 2008 at 9:51 am
I’m going with a song I didn’t even know had a video until yesterday: Blue Oyster Cult’s Joan Crawford. It narrowly edges out the three or four other videos BOC put out at the dawn of the video age, like (shudder) Burnin’ for You or (retch) Take Me Away. You can see where Dr. Octagon got all his ideas!
December 5, 2008 at 10:12 am
“Hey THIS is the way you dance:”
Only in scaly silver skin suits, and ALWAYS with a tutu and white go-go boots.
Basically, I’m old school Old Greg all the way.
Do y’luv me?
December 5, 2008 at 10:48 am
Not before a couple Bailey’s.
December 5, 2008 at 11:51 am
creamy beige.
December 5, 2008 at 11:56 am
Love Games
December 5, 2008 at 12:03 pm
December 5, 2008 at 1:36 pm
How bout a good nose whistle to set the mood…
December 5, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Horse puckey! The best video of all time is:
December 5, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Or, there’s always this bit of psychedelia:
December 5, 2008 at 5:05 pm
If I could, I’d dance like this:
Here It Goes Again
December 5, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I remember a time when lyrics mattered enough that they could still be awful. Before rap, it was, and I still have nightmares remembering lyrics like:
You wanna piece uhmah heart?!?
You better start from the start.
You wanna be in the show?!?
Come on baby lets go!
December 5, 2008 at 8:45 pm
You are all so full of shit. Rick Wakeman, Yes, King Arthur icecapades, Wembley Stadium.
December 7, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Mister the Editors,
I suggest that you defer to the man in the grey turtleneck.
You know it’s the right thing to do.
Hilsen, The
December 9, 2008 at 7:56 pm
The General kicked your asses without even trying:
December 10, 2008 at 7:04 pm
You’ve seen the rest, now try the best: