2020 report on music video from 1980 - part 1 of 2

i hope you meant emptyvee for today, cause MTV was awesome back then....more like reality tv

"Tusk, in its entirety, with the pauses, as Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard!"

What's the band/song in that last video clip, with the "cartoon-like humor and sexual overtones?"

No idea. I recorded this off the air and was watching plenty of TV at the time, and I've never heard this song other than in this report. It sounds like "do rocks", but it could be any combination of words.

The lyrics I understood were "How Long Can I Bin" and the group that sings it is called the Do Rocks

I love how this ordinary report devolves into porn and pederasty at the very end! Swaggart, Jackson, Foley and Craig were'nt around yet but leave it to 20/20 to find something. After all Geraldo was thier serious investigative reporter.

Postingoldtapes: You obscessive/compulsive or something? Anyway I'm GLAD you and others at YouTube as well as the Youtube "Establishment" (Yes, I'm an old coot too) are doing this. As a history major and history junky this is the best thing to happen to the study of history since history itself.

I just checked the Inflation Calculator. $25 in 1979 would be like $74.64.

No more than any other collector. It was something that made sense to record at the time, and I just kept it in the ever growing collection since. When I set up a YouTube account, I decided to share some of this stuff before it faded forever. For instance, I have about a hundred tapes of music video clips from the 1980s. I look through the lists, find something interesting, check that it's not already up, and digitize and upload it. It's the rare hobby that benefits others.

well done you rock big time

Yes, exactly that. I have over 3000 VHS tapes, some of which date back to 1979 when I got my first VHS deck (top loading, mechanical transport, rotary tuner and no remote control other than a wired pause switch). Things sucked back then. Oh, and blank tapes cost $25. BLANK!

(Great. Now I feel like an old coot.)