Ever since the first Music Video Time Machine post, I've been searching through crazy places in my brain looking for something really good to post myself. Well, I finally found something:



I had this song on an old Maxell tape that someone made for me when it was first being played on the radio. I never had a clue who released this song, nor did I care - I was like 11. But after re-discovering the song for this post I looked into it. It's by a group called Smart E's. After seeing that promotional video and listening to the song again, I'm not sure why looking into who did it even occurred to me.

- Krissy

Eiffel 65: I heard the guy third from the
left did all the work.

You know you remember every one of them!

La Bouche
Nikki French
Real McCoy
Cici Peniston
Alice DeeJay
Eiffel 65
Sonique

And I bet you danced a little too.

- Kali


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The Roots saw the future of rap video

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure it's a cliché, but sometimes it happens to be true. And oh my, did I ever find truth in that cliché while watching the Yo! MTV Raps marathon that's been running on digital channel MTV Jamz for the past few weeks. Thank Baby D's "I'm Bout Money" clip for providing this revelation. Now, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this video. It's every cash, hos, bling clip you've ever seen. But what I do find remarkable is that I remember The Roots parodying this exact video -- 12 years ago. "What They Do" was a perfect send-up of mid-90s rap video excess. There's something sad about the fact that it's still just as relevant over a decade later.

- Amirah

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The Roots - What They Do

They like to party

Who could forget the Vengaboys? Many of us tried and failed, especially when Six Flags resurrected "Who Likes To Party" for their own commercial purposes. Or if you ever saw the fateful karaoke of "Boom Boom Boom Boom" that Art Brut posted online, enough said. But go onto YouTube and type in their name, and sure enough over 1000 results show up from Asian guys singing in their cars to the "two girls in a bedroom singing" skit to even the Simpsons dancing to it (20th Century Fox has removed this clip now). Now relive the good old days of the Vengaboys; just promise me to still avoid Aqua.

- StEvO

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Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom


Vengaboys - Who Likes To Party


Vengaboys - Up & Down

If you are my age you were mesmerized. If you are younger than I am, you have this man to thank for any "cool" videos you've ever seen:



This video from 1987 (I was 6!) still holds the record for the most VMA's ever won: 9. Little known fact: the stop-animation in this video was created by Nick Park of Wallace and Gromit fame. Park also worked on Pee-Wee's Playhouse. That factoid may be significant to those who remember Pee-Wee as a Saturday morning icon rather than a sexual deviant... or an intern on Murphy Brown.

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BT and his sweet highlights

When the techno explosion of the late 90s/early 2000s is called to mind, that brief period when DJs were so gonna be the next big rock stars, you tend to think of the usual suspects – Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, etc. There was that "Where’s Your Head At" song. But due to the magic of iTunes shuffle, I was reminded of another little forgotten gem with BT's "Never Gonna Come Back Down." The single featuring Soul Coughing's M. Doughty on vocals was taken from his 2000 release, Movement In Still Life – which was actually a very good record, and with its liberal use of guest rappers beat the current electrorap trend by a mile (think MSTRKRFT’s "Bounce" eight years before that was the cool thing to do).

Though hardly anyone outside the electronic community remembers it nearly 10 years later, “Never Gonna Come Back Down” did have a moment in the sun on alterna-rock radio. It even had a video – one of those awesome clips that really could only have been made during this time period. A Hackers-esque theme, warehouse rave atmosphere and Windows media player visuals -- what more could you want from a techno vid circa 2000? Let’s take a trip back through the magic of YouTube.

- Amirah



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