The Tubes - A Matter of Pride - Sports Fans (Tubes Video Pt. 1)

From the classic out-of-print "Completion Backward Principle" video of 1981. An incredible band musically, with harmonies to die for, (Waaayy before Autotune), during a period when it was cool to be clever, and before political correctness reared its ugly head.

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Music

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• 80's

[Holygasoline]

Why's he got his Shlong out !!!!  ? lol

[RettroDood]

@Holygasoline

I guess, because he could back then! These vids were unclassified back then. Music was art. And if Fee wanted to show his dong, well, that was his art! Bless the 80's!

[KopytoGroma]

I used to have this on VHS tape. One of the best, if not The Best, music videos ever. Thanks for the memories!

[RettroDood]

I also have it on VHS, and played it to death in years gone by. Thought I'd capture and upload it before the tape shed too many oxides, and was rendered unplayable! This was the soundtrack to my younger years. Hope to hell it is re-released on DVD soon!

[strivingx67]

GREAT UPLOAD!!! I saw them live on the Outside Inside tour. Got this vhs right after it. Thanks for posting! way to swing Fee!!! lol

[RettroDood]

"way to swing Fee!!! lol"

Yep. Way back before political correctness, music videos were considered "art".

Consequently, "The Tubes Video" escaped the censorship radar.

Russell Mulcahy (who produced this video extraveganza), also produced a bunch of Duran's videos, (Girls On Film etc).

I guess he figured if he could get away with showing girls, sliding around in shaving cream, mud, and rubbing ice on their bazookas, he could also get away with displaying Fee's shlong!

Gotta love the 80's!

[rg2027x]

"before political correctness reared its ugly head"

AMEN!! We're cursed with the shit IN SPADES now. Like a fucking cancer. It took over society, killed music & creative expression. Sad so many willing dupes bought into it.

We don't get artistry & passion like THE TUBES in music anymore. Music has been castrated, sanitized business class PC garbage. Theres nothing like old school music, where the artists really were artists & not these dumbed down label made, corporate TOOL cardboard cut-outs

[realitychk69]

Prarie Prince was awesome.

[realitychk69]

@RettroDood they will have to edit out Fee's johnson. That shocked the heck out of me when I was 15.

[TruthSurge]

He said "I wanna find out if this love is really real" in the vid but the recording is "I gotta find out..."  hehehe OOPS. tubes were one of the coolest bands in their day.

[NotQuiteLucid]

@rg2027x Nostalgia goggles, you're wearing them. It just takes a bit of time to find the good stuff nowadays, but I assure you it's there.

[roxii2299]

@RettroDood I'm guessing you already know, but it should have been released a couple of days ago!

[spinalcrackerbox]

I could swear I hear more drums in this mix then on the original CD. Well, the remastered version just came out, so will get that as well as it's one of my desert island titles.

[cantstopfishing]

This band was GREAT before they had commercial radio success and still is a great band to see live now. They still tour. I think their best work was in the seventies. Find and buy the album "White Punks on Dope"[remastered] from 2004. It is the first and second (Young and Rich their best work in my opinion) albums from The Tubes. Also look up "What do you want from Live" from 1977 I think. Not available on CD in it's entirety yet, but one of the best live albums if not THE BEST EVER!

[agnamaracs]

It seemed like video albums were going to be huge in the early '80s, but then they just kinda stopped (though a couple people, like Beck, Beach House, and Super Furry Animals have made recent ones). Hardly any of them are out on DVD right now. The only one I can think of is Blondie's "Eat to the Beat." If anyone makes a case for record companies going back to the video vaults, it's the Tubes.