The most misguided compilation CD of all time
May 28, 2013 10:54 AM Subscribe
Punk! includes hits by Men At Work, The Fixx, Huey Lewis And The News, the list goes on! (slyt)
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That's really incredible. The youtube title says it's from the 90s, but that had to be a mid-to-late 80s commercial, no?
posted by mathowie at 10:56 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by mathowie at 10:56 AM on May 28, 2013
What is with that hair? I don't even know what that is.
posted by GuyZero at 10:58 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by GuyZero at 10:58 AM on May 28, 2013
That's really incredible. The youtube title says it's from the 90s, but that had to be a mid-to-late 80s commercial, no?
Maybe licensing issues caused the 10 year delay?
posted by Think_Long at 10:58 AM on May 28, 2013
Maybe licensing issues caused the 10 year delay?
posted by Think_Long at 10:58 AM on May 28, 2013
I very specifically remember being 16 when seeing it. So that would place it somewhere in 1996-1997. A lot of people tend to forget that a lot of what we think of as "80's" aesthetics were commonplace well into the 90's.
posted by mediocre at 10:59 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by mediocre at 10:59 AM on May 28, 2013
Is that Sean William Scott?
posted by cmfletcher at 10:59 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by cmfletcher at 10:59 AM on May 28, 2013
That's charming as all get out. I would love to see a good argument about which song is actually the closest to punk (while being, of course, still quite far from it). I think I'd have to go with Tommy Tutone "Jenny".
Yeah!
posted by benito.strauss at 11:02 AM on May 28, 2013
Yeah!
posted by benito.strauss at 11:02 AM on May 28, 2013
I would say that Love And Rockets probably had the closest thing to an actual connection to the punk scene through it's Bauhaus ancestry..
posted by mediocre at 11:03 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by mediocre at 11:03 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
Men At Work had some really great music. I've seen Colin Hay solo several times, he's terrific.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:04 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by Chrysostom at 11:04 AM on May 28, 2013
Well it does have some good tunes on it - Love and Rockets!
posted by Mister_A at 11:04 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by Mister_A at 11:04 AM on May 28, 2013
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win,
then you show up on a K-tel album.
posted by benito.strauss at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013 [6 favorites]
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win,
then you show up on a K-tel album.
posted by benito.strauss at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013 [6 favorites]
Oh god dammit that was excruciating to watch. But! I was able to make it to the end. But the premise has had me loling uncontrollably for minutes.
posted by Windopaene at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by Windopaene at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013
Another not very punk rock thing named PUNK.
Though they do rebuild the CBGB bathroom which my 10 year old daughter found fascinating. "Daddy, I found a bad word there. In fact, the worst word."
posted by shothotbot at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
Though they do rebuild the CBGB bathroom which my 10 year old daughter found fascinating. "Daddy, I found a bad word there. In fact, the worst word."
posted by shothotbot at 11:05 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
What could be charming than the red head with the short hair, chewing gum and repeating over and over--Yeah Yea Yea...By far the best part of the ad for those long gone tunes
posted by Postroad at 11:06 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by Postroad at 11:06 AM on May 28, 2013
"[I]t is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned them" Murray Kempton
posted by shothotbot at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by shothotbot at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013
Welp, tis a double. Deletage expected.. I was hoping to be the person who introduced MetaFilter to this wonder, but alas..
posted by mediocre at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by mediocre at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
What they don't show is a young Billy Joe Armstrong furiously scribbling notes.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:10 AM on May 28, 2013
IIRC, K-tel did a metal comp or two in the mid 80's that was only marginally more accurate than this.
posted by jonmc at 11:11 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by jonmc at 11:11 AM on May 28, 2013
Huey Lewis And The News
I remember getting into an argument with a guy who was manager of one of the cooler (better) bands in town as to the musical value of Huey Lewis etc. He held them in high regard. I just couldn't see it.
Later I discovered the guy was a heroin dealer ... and somebody in the Huey Lewis entourage was a regular customer whenever they passed through town, thus earning manager-dude backstage privileges.
Nothing says PUNK like heroin.
posted by philip-random at 11:11 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
I remember getting into an argument with a guy who was manager of one of the cooler (better) bands in town as to the musical value of Huey Lewis etc. He held them in high regard. I just couldn't see it.
Later I discovered the guy was a heroin dealer ... and somebody in the Huey Lewis entourage was a regular customer whenever they passed through town, thus earning manager-dude backstage privileges.
Nothing says PUNK like heroin.
posted by philip-random at 11:11 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm sure I've talked about this video on Metafilter before and I didn't comment in the original thread. Must have been an offshoot somewhere.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:12 AM on May 28, 2013
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:12 AM on May 28, 2013
I'd vote for "Stray Cat Strut" as being the closest to an actual punk track.
And that guy is really doing some incredible things to his face in an attempt to adopt a "punk" facial expression. At first I thought he was wearing Buffy vampire makeup.
posted by 256 at 11:13 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
And that guy is really doing some incredible things to his face in an attempt to adopt a "punk" facial expression. At first I thought he was wearing Buffy vampire makeup.
posted by 256 at 11:13 AM on May 28, 2013 [1 favorite]
I remember getting into an argument with a guy who was manager of one of the cooler (better) bands in town as to the musical value of Huey Lewis etc. He held them in high regard. I just couldn't see it.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:14 AM on May 28, 2013 [5 favorites]
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:14 AM on May 28, 2013 [5 favorites]
but that had to be a mid-to-late 80s commercial, no?
I made the very same comment the first time this showed up here.
posted by davebush at 11:15 AM on May 28, 2013
I made the very same comment the first time this showed up here.
posted by davebush at 11:15 AM on May 28, 2013
I just love the all the random "yeah!" from the woman in the ad.
Nothing to do except stare at the terrifying man next to her, apparently mid-transformation into a werewolf.
posted by lattiboy at 11:15 AM on May 28, 2013
Nothing to do except stare at the terrifying man next to her, apparently mid-transformation into a werewolf.
posted by lattiboy at 11:15 AM on May 28, 2013
He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Nothing against Huey, but who on earth would compare him to Elvis?
posted by davebush at 11:17 AM on May 28, 2013
Nothing against Huey, but who on earth would compare him to Elvis?
posted by davebush at 11:17 AM on May 28, 2013
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