TUNES YOU (almost) FORGOT part 2, the awesome 80s
Okay, aside from STARSHIP's "We Built This City", this one has to rank as the OTHER worst (or best, if you're like me) songs of the 80s. Maybe it's that I'm not from the midwest or Ohio or somewhere, but I never could understand the appeal of JOE WALSH . Everything about him seems phony & secondary, never mind hid stint in shit-basket coke-rockers THE EAGLES or proto-dullards THE JAMES GANG (James Who? What gang? What the fuck are you on about?). His sole classic rock tune LIFE'S BEEN GOOD always seemed to be the grumbleymusings of some prematurely over-the-hill rock star burn-out, and who can forget his reefer-addled bid to run for "Vice" President several years ago (get it??VICE preseident!?!? huh-huh!)
Anyways, here's Joe's rant against THOSE FUCKING VIDEO GAMES from 1983, complete with references to DONKEY KONG HIGH SCHOOL and a monotone "robot" voice in the refrain saying I....LIKE....QUARTERS....FEED ....ME....QUARTERS! Recording un-classic LPs with OH SO CLEVER titles like YOU BOUGHT IT YOU NAME IT and GOT ANY GUM? , Walsh at this time was cocky & arrogant, like he had nothing to lose ( I recently saw his appearance on SCTV where he clearly couldn't bother to sober up before-hand, and thought he was on Saturday Night Live, not an actual scripted bit on the far far superior Canadian spoof. Check out his ugly mug on bitch-fest nazi-rock-head "everyone should like rock" anti disco,etc. I CAN PLAY THAT ROCK & ROLL video ). One can imagine the confusion poor Smoky Joe must have felt in 1982, when he went to pick up his pizza as the SINISTAR game mocked him with it's diabolical "Beware I Live!!" and "I Hunger!!"'s. Or more likely an old GORF machine with the "Insert Coin...Dah,Dah,Dah,Dah!" Imagine the terror in Joe's bloodshot eyes when he realised THE MACHINE WAS TALKING TO HIM , not only that, but DEMANDING MONEY that might be better spent on Joe's Conceptual "masterpiece" THE CONFESSOR. Poor Joe, unable to contain his outrage, rushes home, picks up a vintage Gretch Chet Atkins and knocks this baby out. Clearly, some doofus at the record company agreed, as this is the MONO radio version , because you know, we gotta get the message out on all frequencies, including AM radio. I'm sure somewhere there is a video for this tune, but I just can't be bothered. Dig-um!!
