In an effort to resurrect my blogging efforts, I’m considering dedicating this here blog to 80s music…specifically 80s hair metal! I mean, it was the music of the late 80s, heavy makeup and mall bangs ruled the world and they weren’t just for ladies.Why the sudden interest in blogging about it? Well, like I said this blog has been sitting here in its new location doing nothing for months. Got sick of the non-stop techie chatter coming out of my mouth. Not that I still won’t from time to time (and I will still be re-uploading my old posts here in a bit, so stay tuned for that), but I need some outside focus. I’ve got my wiffleball league and buds, which have helped me see there’s more to do out there than worship Bill Gates (which I didn’t really, just a figure of speech). And hair metal is something that’s come up with a few of us (we almost went to a Cinderella/Firehouse concert this weekend), and I was quite a hair band junkie…

But while perusing the forum over at Enuff Z’nuff site (oh, yeah, I was there, a guilty pleasure, my tastes run across the board, from EZN to Megadeth/Metallica), I also ran across a mini-goldmine of links to some old 80s videos online. There’s one vid per band, and it crosses all genres of 80s music, not just hair bands. But we could care less about that ‘long-lost’ Whitney Houston video, go there to see:

Blue Murder – Jelly Roll
Britny Fox – Girlschool
Cinderella – Gypsy Road
Danger Danger – Naughty Naughty
Dangerous Toys – Scared
Def Leppard – Photograph
Europe – Final Countdown
Extreme – More than Words
Faith No More – We Care Alot
Faster Pussycat – Bathroom Wall
Guns N Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
Killer Dwarfs – We Stand Alone
Lillian Axe – Dream of a Lifetime

and more…