In a Damn Dream

Yup it's the most corny and classic video ever, featuring not only the best damn falsetto note in white recording history, but also angry white dudes with pipe wrenches, kinda Asian-looking Scandanavian dudes with the ability to switch universes by slamming shoulders against walls, and a sweet-looking right cross to the button (if only his lower body were more firmly planted!)...

Comments

[Veronica]

*confused*

I thought the best falsetto in white recording history was in James' "Laid."

[Carmen Van Kerckhove]

LOL! "kinda Asian-looking Scandanavian dudes" is right. When I was a kid I always vaguely thought this guy could be a relative of mine.

[belledame222]

bwahaha, i knew what it was within reading the first -two- sentences.

i'm so dating myself...

[Julian]

Thanks, Kai, for this trip back in time. I'm old enough to remember when this first came out, and it, along with Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" rank as a couple of my all time favorite '80s white pop songs! You rock, or is it pop?

[Professor Zero]

I'd never seen the video! My weird association with this song is that I have almost never heard it in the U.S. - I associate it with lunch counters in the developing world, with most clients not speaking Spanish or Portuguese, but a Quechua or Aymara - very odd juxtaposition.

[Yolanda Carrington]

I'd hum songs like these on the school bus in first and second grade. This Ah-Ha song, that song from Simple Minds "Don't Forget About Me," all those videos by Michael Jackson, Culture Club---those were the days. Damn---I can't believe the 80s were twenty-plus years ago!

[Sylvia]

Why is his face so shiny at the end?

[Kai]

Hehe, true, it does look like switching from the comic book universe to the flesh universe through sheer willpower makes one's face shiny.

And apparently my non-commenting phase is over... ;-)

[Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-Jonez]

ah, man i knew it was Take On Me just by the stilled frame. i think cero must have not been in Murka during the 80s! what was that? drug smuggling in bogota??? secret "lunches" with big playaz?

it is quite a falsetto. one must admit. admit it, one. DO IT

[kactus]

I was an adult when this song came out, unlike you whippersnappers. In fact, I was an adult when Mtv first aired, so all this newfangled technology was quite heady.

I should also mention that I was a teenager before I ever saw or rode on an escalator. So I'm dating myself for real.