The only decade where they can take an upbeat love song. And turn it into a video about star wars/star trek/beastmaster rip offs dancing around. The coke was strong with this one

Meth didn't really explore across american until the 90's.. the 80's was the decade of coke.. (in both its powder and rock formats).

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Nice video though.. never seen that.. never heard the song either.

Edit: *explode (not explore)..

There were actually two different videos for Loverboy. I remember seeing the other video on BET's Video Vibration where it was only footage of Billy Ocean. The Star Wars rip-off video was the one used for MTV, TBS' Night Tracks, & NBC Friday Night Videos.

lezama said:

Meth didn't really explore across american until the 90's.. the 80's was the decade of coke.. (in both its powder and rock formats).

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Nice video though.. never seen that.. never heard the song either.

Maybe that's why most music from the 1970's & 80's were the best. Cocaine was a "better" music enhancement for some artists than the 1990's acid, MDMA, & crystal meth.

As for , that works "better" for reggae and West Coast hip-hop/rap. But that's another thread for a later date.

Killer song! This was always my favorite from Billy Ocean. Never understood the concept of the video or how it even remotely related to the lyrics.

kitbradley said:

Billy Ocean is going to be on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night (Jan 26)

www.nbc.com @mrwongo

Gunsnhalen said:

The only decade where they can take an upbeat love song. And turn it into a video about star wars/star trek/beastmaster rip offs dancing around. The coke was strong with this one

They weren't doing meth like that in the 80's young grasshopper....

babynoz said:

Gunsnhalen said:

The only decade where they can take an upbeat love song. And turn it into a video about star wars/star trek/beastmaster rip offs dancing around. The coke was strong with this one

They weren't doing meth like that in the 80's young grasshopper....

yes meth was Big in the 80's in the Bay Area....

chriss said:

babynoz said:

They weren't doing meth like that in the 80's young grasshopper....

yes meth was Big in the 80's in the Bay Area....

No, crack was.

Billy had some cuts.

Billy was great on Jimmy Fallon's show. His new look was more than a little jarring though.

http://www.nbc.com/the-to...ey/2975150

That was the club Lando went to
"Say brothas can I get some credit? No??? As much money as I spend in this nASSty joint..."

chriss said:

babynoz said:

They weren't doing meth like that in the 80's young grasshopper....

yes meth was Big in the 80's in the Bay Area....

Meth was big in San Diego in the late 80s...I remember being in 7th grade, 1986-1987...my brother and most of his friends were sparked out, many others we all "heard" about, and there was a girl in my Social Studies class, no older than 13, and she was SPARKED daily. Sad...

UncleJam said:

chriss said:

yes meth was Big in the 80's in the Bay Area....

Meth was big in San Diego in the late 80s...I remember being in 7th grade, 1986-1987...my brother and most of his friends were sparked out, many others we all "heard" about, and there was a girl in my Social Studies class, no older than 13, and she was SPARKED daily. Sad...

Not here. This is what the 80s was all about in our neck of the woods...

Miami in the late 70s/early 80s...YIKES!

alphastreet said:

This video scared the shit out of me as a kid, but I love the song so much. Always liked it better than the classic Carribbean Queen. Those harmonies at the end were superb Anybody else thought billy ocean sounded like he was singing Tower, tower?? [Edited 1/2/16 6:19am]

Yup - totally freaked me out. This one and Duran Duran's Wild Boys

UncleJam said:

Miami in the late 70s/early 80s...YIKES!

Thangs was crucial back then babes, They had to rent refrigerated trucks from Burger King because the morgue ran out of space.

babynoz said:

UncleJam said:

Miami in the late 70s/early 80s...YIKES!

Thangs was crucial back then babes, They had to rent refrigerated trucks from Burger King because the morgue ran out of space.

Miami was a hellhole back in the 80's, despite how cool they made it look on Miami Vice. Then again, most of the major cities were hellholes back then. At least some cities came back in the 90's (New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle), yet other were left by the wayside (Detroit).

But if you really want to talk about drug-induced videos, you need to check this out.

MendesCity said:

728huey said:

babynoz said:

Thangs was crucial back then babes, They had to rent refrigerated trucks from Burger King because the morgue ran out of space.

Miami was a hellhole back in the 80's, despite how cool they made it look on Miami Vice. Then again, most of the major cities were hellholes back then. At least some cities came back in the 90's (New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle), yet other were left by the wayside (Detroit).

But if you really want to talk about drug-induced videos, you need to check this out.

^ This scared the hell out of me, would rather not "eat em up" YUCK!