{"id":439,"date":"2006-08-18T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/08\/18\/friday-night-videos-80s-cheese\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T17:25:15","slug":"friday-night-videos-80s-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: 80s Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rush: Time Stand Still (1987)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylViJpX1KBs\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ylViJpX1KBs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2006\/06\/23\/choose-your-own-awesome-videos\/\">Some time ago<\/a> I featured Rush&#8217;s video for Distant Early Warning, claiming that it edged out this video for awfulness. Upon reflection, it&#8217;s obvious that I was wrong as wrong can be. Seeing all three band members plus Aimee Mann sailing about under the influence of some video editor&#8217;s shaky hand may induce nausea, but it&#8217;s more than the abuse of green-screen technology that makes this video so bad. Given that the song is a lament about how fast time passes and how it would be nice if time would stand still for a moment, <i>why is everyone bobbing drunkenly about<\/i>? Don&#8217;t quit the video early or you&#8217;ll miss Aimee Mann, finally freed from her stint behind a video camera, floating on a never-ending sea of Rush.<\/p>\n<p><b>Billy Squier: Rock Me Tonite (1984)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xelh0sFo3VY\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Xelh0sFo3VY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Freddy Mercury had nothing to do with this song or video &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t until two years later that he and Squier collaborated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush: Time Stand Still (1987) Some time ago I featured Rush&#8217;s video for Distant Early Warning, claiming that it edged out this video for awfulness. Upon reflection, it&#8217;s obvious that I was wrong as wrong can be. Seeing all three band members plus Aimee Mann sailing about under the influence of some video editor&#8217;s shaky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Videos: 80s Cheese<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}