Guilty Pleasures

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Here Comes The Flood — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:50:00 GMT

Watch the official video for the Kim Carnes hit Bette Davis Eyes. Not as cool as the subject better, but not bad for one hit wonder who is still pretty in big in Brazil somehow.

» kimcarnes.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: The Romantics - What I Like About You

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:18:00 GMT

Watch The Romantics promo video for What I Like About You. It was a hit in 1980 for the New Wave band from Detroit, MI.

» en.wikipedia.org

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:48:00 GMT

Watch the Bloodhound Gang video for Fire Water Burn, a hit in 1996. The label leaned on them, so they didn't sing "motherfucker". Tsk.

» bloodhoundgang.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

Here Comes The Flood — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:12:00 GMT

Watch Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel lipsynching Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) for Dutch music TV show AVRO's TopPop in 1975. Is was a #1 hit in the UK. It was one of the three Harley songs to be used in the Todd Haynes 1998 rock musical Velvet Goldmine. Also used for the soundtrack of 1977 movie The Full Monty.

» steveharley.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Here Comes The Flood — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:45:00 GMT

Watch the Kim Wilde video for Kids In America. The UK singer scored big time with this New Wave song in 1981. The song was written by Ricky (her brother) and Marty (her father) Wilde.

» kimwilde.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: The Cure - The Lovecats

Here Comes The Flood — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:40:00 GMT

Watch The Cure video for The Lovecats, a big hit in 1983. One of the rare cheerful songs in their catalog.

» thecure.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: The B52s - Love Shack

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Watch The B52s video for Love Shack, a big hit in 1989. Originally named The B-52's (with an apostrophe) the Athens, Ga, band has been in the business since 1976 and still rocking out.

» theb52s.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me

Here Comes The Flood — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:29:00 GMT

Watch Cheap Trick perform I Want You To Want Me, recorded live at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. They played two shows there on April 28 and 30, 1978 (the first night was filmed), Audio tracks from those two nights were released on the Cheap Trick at Budokan album.

» cheaptrick.com

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Status Quo - Down Down

Here Comes The Flood — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:50:00 GMT

Watch UK rockers Status Quo go through the motions on Dutch TV show Top Pop plugging their 1975 hit Down Down, a song that's not on their surprisingly good Status Quo Live! album, recorded at Glasgow's Apollo Theatre between 27 and 29 October 1976.

» statusquo.co.uk

HCTF's Guilty Pleasures: Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care

Here Comes The Flood — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:11:00 GMT

Watch UK pop rockers Transvision Vamp perform Baby I Don't Care. It was their big hit in 1989.

» en.wikipedia.org