God, what a horrid video, those pant legs hanging from the rod in the closet kicking around, robotic looking headless mannequins walking around, all kinds of weird stuff. Whenever I see this video, I seriously want to throw something at my TV. Most of the videos for the 80's songs I like, but not this one.

My friend uses the Rockit Mannequin face on the profile for his weekly vinyl night.

http://www.myspace.com/byov

CinisterCee said:

Yup, that's the mannequin from the video alright.

horrible song, too.

u2prnce said:

Agreed.

psychodelicide said:

Back when I worked in a record store, some cd came in with remixes of that song. I forget what it was, but we played it just because of how awful it was. We just made fun of it the whole time. My friend thinks very highly of Herbie Hancock(personally, I don't know his stuff) but he didn't like that song. It's so lame.

u2prnce said:

Ewwww, was it remixes by Herbie Hancock himself or by other artists? One version of that tune is enough. It is a bad song.

psychodelicide said:

I wish I could tell you. I have no idea what cd it was or if he did the remixing. I wanna say it was just a promo cd of some type--maybe a radio station or record label's compilation.

u2prnce said:

It's all about the scratchin' by Grandmixer DST


which is classic

That video scared the crap out of me.


Still does.

http://www.ttmethod.com/

This site shows you how a scratch performance such as "Rockit" would be done on sheet music... scratch notation.

CinisterCee said:

The scratchin is probably the best part of that song, seriously!

minneapolisgenius said:

I understand why, the images are spooky looking.

CinisterCee said:

That's cool! Didn't even know scratch notation even existed. You learn something new every day.

psychodelicide said:

Turntablism transcription. And it makes sense, since this scratching thing is the newest addition to real instrumentation that hip-hop made.

CinisterCee said:

Not only was theRockit video creative for its time, Herbie Hancock showed once again (as he did with Funk in the 70s) that he could take the essence of a genre and show the musical "possibilities".


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

I agree about the song but c'mon that video ain't some avant-garde shit.

CinisterCee said:

It didn't have to be avant-garde compared to the majority of drek Pop videos that were out at the time.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

It was spooky, but it was a cool concept. And it was cool to hear my mom talk about Herbie. She was familiar with his earlier stuff, of course, and shocked her then-preteen son with some musical knowlege. ;;

It was perfect for that time, all experimental and futuristic. It was a great part of MTV's roster for a long time, too. For good reason.


tA, sounds good, man. Meant to Org note you back!

theAudience said:

Ohh I get what you're sayin. See I said that because it's Herbie who said the video looked futuristic or ahead of it's time or something.

But you're right, it was different from anything else.

CinisterCee said:

:man-hug: (with the arm in the middle)


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

great song...great video for its time...

u2prnce said:

Classic Scratch tune. One of the first.

I'm baffled. It's a classic.

Novabreaker said:

I would agree! No offense, but I don't think the "young'uns" realize how different this video was when it was released. I remember thinking it was fascinating. You'd have to remember what else was out there....

theAudience said:

Hi, Audience, how are ya?

CinisterCee said:

ThreadBare said:

Yeah, I remember the video DID get a lot of airplay on MTV.