retina said:

I bought a cassette at a garage sale 2 years ago for 20 cents because that song was on it

ZombieKitten said:

It's worth at least that much.

emm said:

Canadian as HEEEEELLLL omg look at the CBC logo on the spine!

i know of at least one more volume to the Video Hits Album series but it was when Bryan Elliott was the host and they had a few more years of huge hits to cover (notice how that cassette spans 1983-1986?).

it was the best thing about after school
do you remember them showing "thriller"?
it was the poor country kid's version of mtv... for half an hour

emm said:

I can't remember if it was Video Hits that played it, I thought we had MuchMusic by then?

you probably did
i however, sat transfixed in front of that show.
it was a big thing for them to play it... out of a 22 minute show thriller took, what? 10 or more minutes?


then if i was lucky i could go to my cousin's house
and watch the prince videos she taped of much

we moved out to the country in `88 so I watched more Video Hits from then til about `92.. when did it die?

omg was it even still on by then?
i don't know as i was living in the city without a tv

emm said:

yeah Bryan Elliott hosted then Dan Gallagher.

I was still watching when Alanis was "Too Hot"

I remember seeing all of the Kris Kross videos on Video Hits so that must have taken me all through the 1992-1993 school year (grade 6 ) but I don't remember seeing Video Hits after that.

so i don't threadjack any further...

sunflower seeds make me think of sitting out at a slowpitch tournament, hot sun, beer...

watermelon makes me think of being 3 and being sent out to sit on the step to spit our seeds out as we ate.

remember that scorch on your ass and hands from sliding down the metal slide?
they didn't have such things as plastic playground equipment in my day

barbeques at the park... it was lush and shady and so much cooler there than it was anywhere else. the smell of smoke, getting dizzy on the merry go round, and roasting marshmellows on the coals after supper.