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To: reed13k
Peter Gabriel.

Sledgehammer

3 posted on 03/09/2012 7:31:27 PM PST by bigheadfred (ev'ry day i'm shufflin')
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To: bigheadfred

didn’t he just get pissed off because Rush or Sean used this song in a sarcastic way to describe that slut Fluke???


4 posted on 03/09/2012 7:33:21 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: bigheadfred

That was my first thought as well.


5 posted on 03/09/2012 7:33:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: bigheadfred

You have a GREAT memory, BHF!! I remember that video and your are right!


6 posted on 03/09/2012 7:37:58 PM PST by momtothree
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To: bigheadfred

Sorry that’s not it - the one Im thiniking of is black and white with the singer in a suit and hat Nearly every word seems to be a vegetable or fruit


9 posted on 03/09/2012 7:44:43 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: bigheadfred

Oh, that’s a good one! I have not seen that video in so many years. Peter Gabriel—what a creative guy!


11 posted on 03/09/2012 7:46:26 PM PST by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: bigheadfred

Peter Gabriel has withdrawn his permission for one of his songs to be used as “bumper” music by Rush Limbaugh.

As I remember, Gabriel was a 1-2 hit wonder and has disappeared from the music scene other than small venue stages. He won’t be missed.

This was a great example of when MTV had good artistic music videos, from Madonna (Like a Virgin and Express Yourself), Beat It (Michael Jackson) and the all time great “Thriller”, to Weird Al Yankovich’s “Eat It” and “Like a Surgeon”, the Cars “You Might Think”, and “Take Me Home” by A Ha (from about 1981 - 1992.

After that, rap music destroyed musical videos for a decade until Country/Western took over with “Tobey Keith” (What do you think about me now), “Tobey Keith and Willie Nelson” (Beer for My Horses), Brooks and Dunn (”Red Brick Road”, “Boot Scootin’ Boogy”), Keith Urban (A Girl Like You), and Brad Paisley, “The Fishing Song” and “”Celebrity” with William Shatner, Martina McBride “Concrete Angel”, Sara Evans “Suds in the Bucket”, and just about anything with Shania Twain.

Also can’t forget Kenney Chesney and Alan Jackson’s vacation songs, including “It’s 5 O’clock somewhere”, and other Jimmy Buffet-type videos.

Those were the good old days for kids raised in the 80’s. For us old-timers, it was film clips from “American Bandstand”, the Alan Freed movies (those with “Rock” in their titles”), “Beach Blanket Bingo” (we all loved Annette), and ELVIS, the KING movies.


13 posted on 03/09/2012 7:47:59 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bigheadfred
Gabriel's "Sledghammer" video was hardly original, and obviously based on the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo some 400 years earlier...


20 posted on 03/09/2012 7:57:43 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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