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
In proof you’re never too old to Smash Bros, this is a video of very talented pianist and Youtuber BearKeys performing a medley of video game themes on an old Roland Juniper-6 synthesizer from the early 80’s, which produces an absolutely wonderful sound for this use. And if you like
This is a video of classically trained starer and virtuoso pianist Lord Vinheteiro (aka Fabricio Andre Bernard Di Paolo) performing a medley of 80’s hits on the piano. Man, I haven’t heard some of those songs in…forever. Like I’ve legitimately never heard them before man I thought these were supposed