Thanks for the memories subby. Video not so great, but song still Rocks!

For some reason I thought Hooters and Hootie and the Blowfish were the same band. They're both dreck.

douchebag/hater: The Hooters?

I remember them. They were one of those groups - The Cardigans come to mind, too - that music critics kept telling the public to buy, Buy BUY! because their music because it was soooooo awesome.

Yeah, about that: just one more lie.

That has to be the first time The Hooters and Cardigans were used in the same context.

The 90's analog to the Hooters would be Collective Soul.

Also, the Hooters always make me think of "Welcome To the Boomtown" by David and David which was on the radio at the same time. Along with Sunset Grill which is still awesome to this day.

So. Um... Yeah.

I'm truly terrified by the number of people that like this song. It was bad enough dealing with Dream Theater, Rush, and Yes drones, now the Hooters? I mean, really? REALLY?

Add another who loved the innocent goofiness of the song and video. So subby can EABOD.

This isn't the worst video of the 80s. It hasn't scarred me and haunted my consciousness to this day. As far as videos go, this one is "meh".

TheHopeDiamond: Subby = Right.

Next thread, please.

This.

The song was not good then, and even worse upon review. It doesn't get any more generic.

So is subby the person who wrote the article?

Too bad subby and all the other haters have no idea what real music is.

/saw the Hooters at least 30 times, including 5 times at the Tower in October 1985 and at Live Aid.
//get off my lawn

Meh. This isn't so bad, it's held up pretty well compared to other stuff from the same era. I was more of an 'All You Zombies' fan - used to crank up the sound and the treble side of the equalizer for the first big cymbal crash. It's a wonder I can still hear.

You want real dreck, put on any popular shiat today. Not a real instrument within 6 miles when it was recorded, and the videos are either 'look at my unique tattoos' mall punks, some dime-a-dozen tart doing the tired I'M SO OUTRAGEOUSLY SEXY dance moves, or a gang of brain dead rappers with gigantic clothes flashing their gaudy diamonds. Now that's dreck.

/gerrof my property

TheLopper

"Laugh all you want, but the 80s were the high point of Western Civilization. It's been all downhill since."

Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you on that. These were some great bands making music in the 1980s:

Del Amitri, Minutemen, dB's, Spooner, Black Flag, X, Bad Brains, Wall Of Voodoo, Wire Train, DB Cooper, Talking Heads, Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, Killing Joke, The Smiths, Bush Tetras, Delta 5, Guadalcanal Diary, Pere Ubu, Gang Of Four, Magazine, Joe Jackson... and I even like The Hooters.

So there ya go.

DjangoStonereaver: OtherLittleGuy: They opened for "Live Aid".

Only because they are based in Philly, and were the only band able
to get up that early.

I never got into them, but don't hate them: they are a holdover
from the days of strong regionalization in radio. The Philly
rock stations still play their stuff regularly, but you won't
hear them anywhere else. Rather like Eddie Money: he's still
well played in NYC, but no one beyond the NY/NJ/CT tristate
area has heard of him.

Seriously? According to Wiki, he's had 4 platinum albums, and 8 songs in the top 10 Billboard Rock charts (including 3 #1s), so somebody was buying those records, not just New Yorkers.

LawrencePerson: Aren't you forgetting the video that ended Billy Squier's career?

/Like the Hooters
//"All you Zombies," "Day By Day," and "Satellite" FTW

W0w! Directed by Kenny Ortega! (of Dirty Dancing and High School musical fame)

the keyboard riff is as cheesy as their style.

But hey it was the 80's and that was the style.

/the blonde dude looks like Legolas.

I would expect nothing less from all the smarmy, know it all Farkers out there but total love for the steaming pile of excrement that is The Hooters. Gimme a break people. The Hooters? That band did their best to try to ruin music as we know it.

Not the worst band/video out there though- after all, A-HA worked extra hard to run away with that category.

GibbyTheMole: TheLopper

"Laugh all you want, but the 80s were the high point of Western Civilization. It's been all downhill since."

Yeah, I'm gonna agree with you on that. These were some great bands making music in the 1980s:

Del Amitri, Minutemen, dB's, Spooner, Black Flag, X, Bad Brains, Wall Of Voodoo, Wire Train, DB Cooper, Talking Heads, Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, Killing Joke, The Smiths, Bush Tetras, Delta 5, Guadalcanal Diary, Pere Ubu, Gang Of Four, Magazine, Joe Jackson... and I even like The Hooters.

So there ya go.

gang of 4 = awesome

Oh, Subby, Subby, Subby....

Of course it looks cheesy now. But those were the times & in their own weird way, the Hooters were perfect for it.

Plus, any discussion of '80s suckitude that doesn't begin with Rockwell, is just misguided from the start.

/Back when being MJ's cousin was enough to land a record contract.
//Even when your talent level is actually in negative numbers...

I never knew the love-child of Matthew Modine and Gary Busey was in the Hooters.

/great band

I've never been more proud to live across the street from where it was filmed (The current site of the Exton Square Mall, Pennsylvania).

First line of the lyrics-

"She was a be-bop baby on a holiday night"

Truly wretched band and song. Goes to show what happens when you fully embrace the latest trends of the day. Quite embarrassing.

Worst song ever? Far from it.

Macular Degenerate
Thanks for reminding us of that lovely video. Here's the original, which was a hit in Finland -- the video you link was their attempt to make it big outside of Finland.

Needless to say, it didn't work.

Another of my 1970s Finnish faves: Fredi with "Syntinen Yö" (Night of Sin).

Then sometime in the 1980s, the Finns discovered heavy metal. And everything became awesome. Any country with a third of the pop charts being heavy metal has awesome music taste.

This was never a hit, and for good reason.
It is just about the worst thing I've ever seen/heard

Jan Terri
Losing You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE2l6CPna4M