It's time for another 80s League crossover event and this month we're talking about our favorite 80s music videos! You know, the bygone days when stations like MTV and VH1 actually showed videos instead of endless strings of reality shows full of horrible people! Make sure to check back here later this week and I'll have the rest of the league's posts right here.
Real Weegie Midget - 5 Hollywood Hitmakers from the 1980s
Rediscover the 80s - '80s League Crossover: My 5 Favorite '80s Music Videos
Killer Kitsch - 1980s Music Videos
For my pick, you had to know this was coming. I've gone on record stating Transformers: the Movie is one of my favorite things ever in the entire world. There's not a single thing I dislike about the movie, even including its animation/continuity errors and my favorite Dinobot, Snarl, only showing up in two blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes. As soon as the movie came out, I had to get the soundtrack, so I can listen to that awesome metal version of the theme song whenever I wanted to. But I was seven and had no idea how soundtracks worked, so when I looked up White Lion at Target, I could never find the Transformers theme. I was bummed out, so I recorded the song off the movie onto a tape, which my brother immediately copied over it. Young punk, I'll straighten him out yet.
Fast forward a decade and change, I go to Empire Records in New Orleans and searching through their CDs and I happen upon the soundtrack! I bought it that very minute, ignoring the fact that I didn't happen to own a CD player yet. Whatever, I'll buy one too. I listened to that soundtrack like crazy, which gave me a real appreciation for the rest of the songs on it. I was already a fan of Weird Al (Dare to be Stupid is still my favorite song of his), but I'd never heard of Inspector General (name changed from Kick Axe for the soundtrack) or this guy, Stan Bush. But his song "The Touch" rocked my fucking world! Imagine my surprise to find out it had a video playing on MTV this whole time.


Ever since the movie, Stan Bush has become a massive icon in the Transformers fandom. Even better than that is Stan Bush has embraced us, appearing in the various Transformers movies and games since then and playing gigs at Transformers conventions (you can watch his concert form last years BotCon here). And yes, it absolutely sounds just as awesome these days and makes me giddy to hear it. Stan Bush, you sir definitely have the Touch!
Check out my previous post about the Transformers: the Movie 30th Anniversary and my movie villains post about Unicron.
Glad to know not the only one - loved how you said you only bought a CD player to buy the soundtrack - I was a staunch VHS collector until Dallas came out on DVD, then I bought a DVD player xx
ReplyDeleteThere's always that one show or song that's worth updating all of your tech!
DeleteGreat how you just own the love affair with this song and every aspect of it through the ages. Awesome contribution to this month's topic. Autobots Roll Out!
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad he's owned the fandom's love affair with the song. Such a great sport about it.
DeleteI had the pleasure of an interview with Stan Bush about this song! Have always been a fan of it as well.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's awesome! Do you happen to have a link to it? I'd love to read it!
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