Australian New Wave, Italian Horror Metal, Madagascarian Doo Wop and French Hair Metal

Laugh if you want, but I’ve watched this Time Bandits video (top left) at least a hundred times and have taken copious notes.  Notice the lyric, "love is for the ones," as if only a group as exclusive as these models can really love. I'd rather be one of those ones than one of the Illuminati.  You don't find it alluring?  sorry... Other Aussie new wavers that have taken up too much of my time: Dugites, Eurogliders, James Freud...  On the top right, Italy’s Death SS were not Nazis, but singer Steve Sylvester did lead a satanic sect at the time of this video's filming.  You know that feeling when you’ve watched TV for so long that your stomach hurts? Ugh…

I’ve also been spending too much time looking through archives of Mexican Doo Wop, although every one of those videos gets topped by Madagascar’s Les Surfs (bottom left).  Mexican doo wop that has taken up too much of my time: Los Hooligans, Manolo Munoz, Los Hitters.  On the bottom right is the fruit of too much time with French Heavy Metal.  A lot of music videos from this era are much more ridiculous, including many of Warning’s other music videos -  I chose this one because the song is a almost entirely unironic blast of Sabotage-era Sabbath meets Iron Maiden.  Runners up include: Dum Dum Bullet, Nightmare, Trust, Speed Queen.

Comments

[Steve]

For all you Homestar Runner fans: Warning = Limozeen.

[bartleby]

Was Steve Sylvester involved in the Leutha Blissett hoax of the late 1990s?
Because, when I think Italy and I think Satanism I think of the Leutha Blissett hoax.

[tim]

time bandits were actually dutch but "i'm shooting love" was a big hit in australia and i think they shot one of their other film clips here (in australia, i mean). i do love that track. for something australian check out "no say in it" by machinations (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSOBhTEaHw

or else dig up the early inxs records which are awesome. our 80s music history has largely been subsumed within the context of the story of "pub rock" which is unfortunate

[joel silbersher]

Dugites? Eurogliders? James Freud? Why?
I guess that The Hitmen and LaFemme records have been rereleased so someone must give a shit.