Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Video: The 80s music videos and archeology

Twenty and thirty years after the event some of us can still remember how cutting edge videos were in promoting music. CDs were new and displacing vinyl records and now CDs may go away replaced entirely by music downloads.

We live close enough to music videos to know why they showed up and have mostly gone away. To look back at physical structures in archeology and wonder what the use was we only have to look at some of our fads to see why they came and went
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This video has it all, scenery, crane shots, helicopter shots, and fighting to complete the shoot as the sun goes down.