One of the thing about the old 80's music videos, at least the ones from the late 80's is that they haven't aged at all. I mean they look the same as they did the day they came out:
We've discussed the whole Bon Jovi/metal issue before. It even shows up in A Line Through the Desert, where young Jake argues that Bon Jovi is metal. Written in 2003 I would not write that sentence today. However we categorize Bon Jovi, Dead or Alive is awesome and the video is perfect.
Personally, I always loved it when I discovered a song before it became big. We liked Dead or Alive as soon as I first heard after buying the Slippery When Wet tape. We vividly recall listening to it while setting up NATO: The Next War in Europe on our mother's dinning table.
Forgive us for indulging in a bit of nostalgia, but this year marks the 25th anniversary of our graduating high school and we're really starting to feel it. Don't worry, we're not going to go on about our youth, not really.
We don't miss high school or being young, except for one thing.
1986 to 1994, We call those years 'The Zone'. We remember the absolute comfort of our life style, school, home, TV, reading a book, lights out. Symbolized by the above, the music was a big part of it. So was were the movies, watched almost exclusively on cable. Anyone around back then recalls how relentless the cable networks were about showing the same films over and over again. In this way one saw films like Aliens (anyone else remember how it was one very night the summer of '87?) Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, etc etc.
The Zone disappeared forever in 1995. Everything seemed to changed overnight. Makes sense really. This is the year I moved out, more or less and spent the next 6 years in Northern Virginia before finally moving to NJ in 2001, where...
Jesus...where does it all go?
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