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No idea, but I really want to know what's going on in that second scene!

Yeah, good call on not posting the goofy Chevy Chase video. Distracts from an actually really good song!

Thanks dudes! Some very nice balcony/sunset tracks for this weekend. 

Armageddon?

+1 this is great. Are you a Kerouac fan, Jack?

Canadians will remember this TV opening by the same name 

No idea what's sung at 1:03 but sounds good 

Just doing my part to narrow down the answer. OK no math in this one, people! 

Is this possibly an educational game played in schools in the 80's? Shoot, I think the name was Math Caves or Math Castle?

Cool track - anything with accordion always wins my heart. If you listen with headphones, there's a cool instrument (or combination of instruments) that sounds like a stand up bass and one of those First Nations drums.

Relax/study track in the same vein:

^Every Carrefour around the planet on November 1. 

I listen to a lot of nursery rhymes and kids songs with my son (and we rock out to them on our guitar sometimes). Personal fav is this snappy crooner and his little interludes between sections of the song. "Let's try a long O sound..." (cue cheddar smile) 

Sort of a similar vein is Peppyrock's remix of Sesame Street's theme:

I didn't record many tapes but I burnt a lot of CDs:

Ah crap this one also unavailable here! I love this song too though. Makes me reminisce of my extremely awkward first year at uni. 

Listening to this absolute monster classic of an album right now before it gets taken down from Youtube again (and again and again and again... the record label is relentless). I actually own the CD, but it's great to be able to listen to it at the click of a button without having to transfer the mp3 rips onto my phone.

And yes, that cover is by John Wayne Gacy himself.

Argh - 'video unavailable' here. Who/what was the track?

Nice call, Jack.

I will always always love Annie Lennox. Greatest thing to ever come out of Scotland.

I think I once read that dude was actually a complete overdub. It was the producer singing the whole time. 

Sorry, I'm just going to dump tracks here for a bit. Yes, there are better Boney M songs out there, but this is the very very first one I heard, and I remember liking the vibe right away.

Not fair - EVERYBODY loves Venus!

Sure, the original is great, but the Bananarama version is like a compilation of all the worst cliches of the 80s... and yet I love it

And hey, the ONLY embarrassing thing about the "You spin me round" video is the other band members, who clearly could not live up to the fabulousness that was required of them Everything else is just the BEST (and the song is an absolute classic!)

Banarama version means different things to different people - I can never mentally separate it from this Gillette advertising campaign for women's razors from around 20 years ago. I don't think anything Gillette has ever done sold women's razors faster in Canada. Hell I was going to buy one! 

Yeah those DoA band members get a failing grade for lacking enthusiasm. Bath robes, flags and eye patches...what else do you guys need!

In the same vein:

(This video always cracks me up. What were they thinking? Eye patches, flags and finger wagging?! Ah well, no cringe video can destroy the awesomeness of this song!)

Not fair - EVERYBODY loves Venus!