My new camcorder has arrived, the battery has been charged, and I’ve shot a few test clips to play with…HOORAY! However, getting the clips from the camera to my PC hard drive to Windows Movie Maker to YouTube is turning out to be more of a challenge than anticipated….AWWW!
I would hate for you all to despair of me not putting up a post at all until I have my technical difficulties sorted out (which could be a few more days and involve much hair-pulling on my part), so I’m going to take a cue from my other blog and just post an awesome music video….and since the word “working” is in the title, I feel that this is the place to post it.
“Mature” readers please cast your minds back to 1981 when no one had ever heard anything like Devo before and relive the original mind-blowing that you got when you first heard it. “Youthful” readers will be amazed to learn that Mark Mothersbaugh, the lead singer of this very silly (and very ground-breaking!) band went on to write the theme song and show music for “Rugrats”, “Clifford the Big Red Dog”, and even “The Sims 2” game!
But enough random facts already…close the door, turn up the speakers, and dance your butt off to Devo’s amazing version of the 1966 classic “Working in the Coal Mine“:
I promise to keep you posted on my progress with the new camcorder, and as always, if you get here and don’t see a new post, check out my other, much more silly blog for the latest!
key-rist, woman. are you peeking in our windows? husban-dito lurves devo and went to see them back in september in brooklyn. (he says peek-a-boo is a better song than this one…but i’ll let you two duke it out.)
when i want to rile him, i ask him to put on the “safety dance”people. hahhahaha. he goes mad.
jimsmuse sez: Oh, you mean Men Without Hats — perhaps they have become dated (they were always goons), but I still love to sing along to that song when it comes on the radio and do the “safety dance” (yeah, talk about being an ITCSS…it can be a little dangerous at times!) I would come peep in your windows, but it’s too cold!
“Are we not men? We are Devo!” was stuck in my head for about 20 years.
Men Without Hats had another hit in 1987 with “Pop Goes The World”.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=AjIrrL8gaNQ
I hope you meant “goons” in a good way.
To be fair, Dexy’s Midnight Runners were always goons in my book, but with enough alcohol I’ll dance to the song.
jimsmuse sez: I suspect with enough alcohol you’d dance to just about anything…I know I would!
Whip It is still one of my favorite songs EVERRRR. I used to sing it to Maddie when she was a baby!
I also love Safety Dance – that song ROCKS.
And our whole family loves Dexy’s Midnight Runners! Especially now that the girls are addicted to The Young Ones.
Good luck with your video editing. I’ve found the learning curve rather steep. Brain hurts!
I remember seeing Devo for the first time and being blown away by how different and new they sounded at the time. I also loved “Men without hats” when they first appeared and I used to have their LP……. in another galaxy….. far, far away.