This a vintage news report from the vaults of ABC7 in New York highlighting the crazy demand for Cabbage Patch Dolls leading up to Christmas in 1983. Man, those parents are NUTS. Me? If my kids want something and it’s out of stock or hard to get that’s just too

The 80’s: I was born in them. And to celebrate my birthday tomorrow (I’m going to be older than whatever came before dirt, unless you’re older than me, in which we’re still spring chickens, 120 is the new 30!), here’s a video of a bunch of tasty 80’s jams (including

These are six videos of young people dancing at the San Diego area Stratus Dance Club during ‘The Metro Beat & Club Sanctuary Nights’ circa 1986 – 1987. The Stratus Dance Club was an all-ages new wave synthpop club that catered to the “new romantic and goth crowds” of the

This is a video of Heather Parisi and a group of dancers performing Michael Sembello’s 1983 Flashdance banger ‘Maniac’ in a way that can only be described as the 80’s personified. There’s no question they’re all maniacs. The way they all move — it’s unnatural, and it gives me anxiety

Prior to forming Nine Inch Nails with himself in 1988, Trent Reznor played in several new wave and pop bands in the 80’s, including tickling the ol’ plastic ivories for Cleveland, Ohio based Slam Bamboo, as seen in this video. Trent was actually composing Pretty Hate Machine for himself at

This is a side-by-side comparison of the music videos for Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ and Weird Al Yankovich’s ‘Eat It’. Unsurprisingly, the ‘Eat It’ video is nearly identical shot-for-shot. You know, because that was the goal. I assume it was either this or footage from someone who swallowed a camera,

This is ‘You Had To Be There’, a five minute clip from the MTV Vault Youtube channel featuring footage from the 1985 Video Music Awards after party. Despite the title of the clip, I’m not sure you actually had to be there to feel like you were, because my desk

This is ‘The Legend Of Beavis’, a video created by visionary editor KhalidSMShahin by adding Beavis’s voice from Beavis And Butthead to the 80’s Legend Of Zelda cartoon. To say he did a great job and it works well is an understatement, and even if you don’t want to like