My Adventures In YouTube week of 10/18

Though only featuring 21 words sung over and over again over a mixed Chaka Khan track, Stardust's "The Music Sounds Better With You" is a song that fails to leave my CD collection. The group (which featured Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk) is simple, steady and surprisingly not annoying for a dance track. Early in his great career Michel Gondry directed the video which reminds me of my own summer days as a kid watching the MTV Top Video Countdown and drawing pictures. Man, I'm getting old.

My Adventures In YouTube week of 10/02

I was reminded the other day about the old TV show SOLID GOLD that used to play when I was growing up. For those unfamiliar a cache of dancers wearing skimpy outfits and nude pantyhose shimmied and shook their own dance routines to that week's Top 10 music hits. It really was something. Pop music and a little skin for the heteros, dance routines and spangles for the homos and all flash flash and jazz hands. This was truly one of those shows that you look at and think "Wow. That really would never work today would it?". Well, Darcel and all you crazy dancers, thanks for the memories.