It’s Friday Night. Time to flip on NBC and see the best new music in video format. A Music Video, if you will…
Sixteen-point-six percent of the way to completion on all my New Year’s Resolutions. My clothes are much looser, my creative output greater, my professional life stronger. Got a long way to go.
It’s as good a time for Inspirational Eighties Ballads as any.
“I can make it. I know I can. You broke the boy in me, but you won’t break the man.”
(Source: Spotify)
Square One TV, “8% of My Love”
Happy Valentine’s! I hope you get to give 100% of your love out into the world today.
Sonny & Cher, “I Got You Babe”
Okay, Campers: rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties, because it’s cooooold out there today!
Pet Shop Boys, “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”
Oh, there’s a lot of opportunities when you know when to take them, you know?
Dire Straits, “Love Over Gold”
It takes love over gold and mind over matter
To do what you do that you must
When the things that you hold can fall and be shattered
Or run through your fingers like dust…
Whenever I’m uncertain about my listening habits, I pop back over to Last.fm. That site is kind enough to remind me that, yes, I do listen to Huey Lewis more than any other artist (and that I’ve had the Back to the Future soundtrack in nearly every playlist I’ve made for the past ever).
This is exactly as it should be.
Anyone up for a mid-Thursday dance break? How about a cool blast of nostalgia? Well, coming at you all the way from November of 1997, it’s…
Oh, no need to spoil the surprise. Just press play and have a flashback.
— Masaya Matsuura, head of NanaOn-Sha, creator of PaRappa the Rapper.
