Despite there not being Zombie Raptors, the thing about the Zombie Apocalypse was "real" as the CDC or the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released an article regarding how to be prepared in case of a Zombie Apocalypse. Haven't seen it? well then Check It Out. Now, I'm pretty sure that this is supposed to be a joke, but I don't really understand the timing, seems like something that should have come out around Halloween, but maybe there was some connection to the supposed rapture, I don't really know. Of course if you do like zombies, there are plenty of movies and show to watch that including zombies, and if you have Comcast, I implore you to go to On Demand and under Free Movies, watch something called Pot Zombies, don't ask questions, just do it.
Freak Out, Freak Out! The Tower of Power, Too Sweet to be sour, Funky Like a Monkey, Oooooooh Yeeeeeaaaah! Yup, ladies and gentlemen, sad news Friday, as Macho Man Randy Savage died in a car accident, evidently he had a heart attack and lost control of his car and crashed into a tree, very sad. Macho Man was one of the best, not just wrestler, but movie star, singer and rapper. He gave some of the best interviews and promos of all time, here is just a few:
And, what was probably his last a few months ago, promoting the WWE All-Stars Video Game:
But, it wasn't just his interviews, he was a actually was one of the best wrestlers of all time, and his match with Ricky The Dragon Steamboat at Wrestlemania III is still considered to be one of the greatest matches of all time, sure by today standards, maybe it doesn't seem all that spectacular, but back in 1987, it was amazing:
Now, while Macho Man lost that match, just a year later he would go on to win the World Title winning a tournament by winning 4 matches in the same night:
Of course, then he joined up with Hogan for the Megapowers, until the Megapowers exploded:
He would lose the title Hogan, then become Macho King, then lose a retirement match to Ultimate Warrior, then went to do announcing, and at Summerslam 91, would finally marry Miss Elizabeth, who he was already married to in real life, but now it was official, however, things didn't go as planned:
Yeah, getting a Cobra from Jake The Snake Roberts and a Urn upside the head from The Undertaker are probably not the best wedding gifts to get. Anyway, this would lead to a long feud with Jake The Snake, which lead to this:
Eventually Savage came out of retirement and got his revenge on Roberts, and then just a few months after that at Wrestlemania VIII, he would once again become WWF World Champion by defeating Ric Flair:
He would hold the title for a few months before losing it back to Flair, after that he focused more on commentating and eventually left WWF and actually had a huge falling out with Vince McMahon and didn't do anything related to WWF/E until just last year. Savage went on to WCW, had a decent run, won the WCW Title a few times, was in and out of the nWo, nothing too memorable when compared to his WWF days. Then after he left WCW, he went on to become a movie star, starring in Spider-Man as Bonesaw McGraw:
And then, after conquering the movie world, Randy Savage decided to take on the world of music, rap music to be more specific and called out Hulk Hogan, with the 2003 Hit, "Be A Man" from the best selling album of the same name:
The next year Macho Man would make his last wrestling appearance with a brief run with TNA, and then kinda just disappeared. He will be missed.
Bruins really blew a huge opportunity yesterday to take a stranglehold on the Eastern Conference Finals, game reminded me very much of game 7 against the Flyers last year, went up early 3-0. then kinda just took the foot off the peddle, let the Lightning get back in and and get some life, and then Simon Gagne getting the GWG, just like last year. All the momentum that the Bruins had from game 3, they gave back to Tampa, but with winning the one game in Tampa, all they need to do is take care of business at home and they'll be good, easier said then done, sure, but tomorrow night is obviously a huge game, can't go down 3-2 going back to Tampa, can't happen.
The season finale of the Office was pretty good, a little disappointed that they left it as a cliffhanger as to who the new manager is gonna be, but I'm not sure they know at this point. As it turns out, my idea ain't gonna happen, cause although Will Arnett's show on Fox did get cancelled, he's already gonna be on a new show on NBC with Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph in the fall, called Up All Night or something like that. I don't think it's gonna be Ricky Gervais and certainly not Jim Carrey, might end up coming down to Darryl or Andy, but I still rule out Dwight. Then again, screw it, why not just let Creed be manager, seems like he knows what he is doing. What's the deal with the new girl though? I don't really understand what her job is really supposed to be and not really sure she adds anything to the show. Interesting to see what happens with Gabe, is he gone? Well, I guess we will find out in the Fall.
Alright, well, last time on the Blog I dove into 1991 in the MTV countdown to 30, which was actually the 10 year anniversary of MTV, and before we move on to 1992, I kinda left out some stuff from 1991, most of which kinda carried over to 1992 anyway, but technically they should have been discussed in the last post, but I can't just move on. 1991 had an interesting theme that involved up and coming actors being in music videos, such as Keanu Reeves in Paula Abdoul's video for Rush Rush:
and then Johnny Depp in Tom Petty's video for Into The Great Wide Open:
The end of 1991 actually had a bunch of new artists that came along and made an impact that did last into 1992 as well, most of them didn't really stick around for much longer after that, well, at least not in Music, this guy has gone on to do pretty well in movies, but this was pretty much all he is remembered for in terms of music:
Not really sure what happened with these guys, they had 3 big hits in the early 90s and then just kinda disappeared, but this was the biggest of those hits which came out at the end of 91:
These next guys marked the end of what was the first Boy Band craze, the Boy Band craze would return later on in the decade, but these were the last from the previous generation and they had a nice year run with some big hits including this one:
But it all started back in the end of 1991:
Always loved the fact that Roger Clemens was in that video. Awesome. I also remember Deion Sanders and Andre Rison really running with this whole thing with the Falcons when they made it to the playoffs that year, pretty sure Hammer was on the sidelines with them at some point. Ok, so you might have noticed "Michael Jackson" or at least his glove at the end of that video, well, interesting story, Hammer actually challenged Michael Jackson to a dance off, and the winner would get the glove. It never happened, which is too bad, cause it would have been pretty amazing.
Alright, moving on to 1992, before we get to the music and the videos, 1992 was the year that mark the beginning of what was ultimately to become of MTV, and not just MTV, but a lot of cable TV, and that was because in 1992 the first reality show, The Real World debuted on MTV with the first NY version. Now, while the show and all the other shows that have spinned off of the original, I hate, I originally watched and kinda enjoyed this show, the NY, the LA and then SF, after that I lost interest, the only other season that I kinda watched was in 02, Chicago, cause it was on before The Osbournes when that show first started, don't really remember much about it other then one of the guys looked like Paul Pierce.
Throughout the years prior to 1992, MTV would always have these weird little videos and stuff that they would show during commercials and stuff, a lot of them were animated, and they even put together a show that kinda just showcased a lot of short animated clips and other stuff, one of those happened to be something called Frog Baseball by Mike Judge:
People loved it and MTV decided to make it into a show and they also took the idea of having Beavis and Butt-head comment on videos, which was really a awesome idea and really helped the popularity of the show.
Beavis and Butt-head would go on to have quite the run in the 90s including a feature film, but ultimately in 1997, Mike Judge got too busy with King of the Hill and making movies like Office Space, so he ended Beavis and Butt-head, which actually weirdly coincided with South Park starting and becoming big, not saying the 2 are related in anyway, but just an observation. BUT, just in case you weren't aware, since King of the Hill is done, and Mike Judge's movies haven't exactly done great as of late, well, it's time to bring them back, yup, that's right, Beavis and Butt-head will be returning to MTV sometime this summer, possibly to coincide with the 30th anniversary, I don't know, maybe. I will say this though, I'm not sure Beavis and Butt-head really work on MTV, I'm all for bringing them back, but seems like it might work better if they were on Comedy Central, which is owned by the same people, so no big deal, but something tells me that the audience that would be watching Beavis and Butt-head isn't exactly the same people that would be watching Jersey Shore, or Teen Mom or any of that crap, whereas if Beavis and Butt-head is on Comedy Central and airing on between Futurama and South Park, makes more sense, no?
1992 was a pretty big year in music, and while a lot of what was going on in 1991 continued on in 1992, for instance after Magic Johnson had to retired from the NBA in late 1991 due to getting the HIV virus, which btw, I'm no doctor, so I'm not gonna say that I'm up to speed on how the whole HIV/AIDS thing works, but my understanding was that you get HIV that eventually leads to AIDS and you die, so it's been 20 years now, why is Magic Johnson still alive? Does he know something that everyone else doesn't know, and yes I've seen the South Park episode that deals with this, obviously that's not real, but anyway. So, Magic wasn't playing basketball, so he was available to help Michael Jackson out with his next video for Remember The Time, but the question is do you Remember?
Now, as elaborate as this video was and a lot of Michael Jackson's videos were up until this point, he would be outdone as Guns N' Roses would come along with their 2nd video of their trilogy and at the time the most expensive video made:
Other groups who had made an impact in 1991 were still continuing their runs in 92 as well, including Nirvana:
Alice in Chains:
U2:
It's interesting, this was actually the 3rd version of the One video, Bono wasn't a fan of the first 2, which were this:
Then there was this version:
Speaking of videos that had more then one version, Ozzy wasn't a fan of the first version of the video for Mama, I'm Coming Home, so he made another one, here was the first one:
So, Ozzy didn't really like this version, so they made a new one:
Metallica also continued their run in 1992:
Red Hot Chili Peppers had their biggest hit in 1992:
REM followed up their success from 1991 with a new album and a song about Andy Kaufman for whatever reason:
Van Halen won the 1992 MTV VMA for video of the year for this number:
Not to be outdone, Pearl Jam would win the 1993 MTV VMA for video of the year for this video, eventhough it came out in late 92:
But, much like U2 and Ozzy, not the original version, the original version was actually this:
Guess Pearl Jam decided that video wasn't gonna get the job done, so they changed it up, go big or go home, or in their case, go big and go home, as after winning the award, this would be Pearl Jam's last video for over 5 years.
Now, Freddie Mercury Died in late 1991, but that didn't mean that Queen couldn't have a big year, and maybe it was due in part as a tribute, but Bohemian Rhapsody became a big hit in 1992 because of it's inclusion in the movie Wayne's World, and they did a video for it:
1992 was also the year that Eric Clapton both put Unplugged on the Map and made everyone cry, after his young son died after falling out of a window, he wrote the song Tears In Heaven, and then did an unplugged version, which became a huge hit:
Beastie Boys returned in 1992 with a different sound, kinda reinventing themselves after, although critically reclaimed followup to License to Ill with Paul's Boutique, commercially not as successful, but this time they would get both:
1992 had a lot of one hit wonders or at least groups that had their defining hits or moments in 1992, for instance these kids had everyone wearing their clothes backwards and Jumping:
But just in case people were not done jumping, there would be more:
Now, while there was a character in Wayne's World named Mr. Big, it's interesting that 1992 was also the year that they had their biggest hit:
Then again if you are looking real one hit wonders, these next 2 songs were #2 and #1 respectively on the latest VH1 Top 40 One Hit Wonders of the 90s and they both came out in 1992:
And despite what Bel Biv Devoe had told us a couple years early about big butts, this guy was not listening:
This next song and group all had everyone challenging people to a game of horseshoes, A GAME OF HORSESHOES! Ok, maybe not, but whatever:
These next guys, they had a pretty big 1991, but in 1992, they had their first number 1 hit with this song:
Now, this next song probably wasn't as big a song or video as the rest of these songs, but it came out in 1992 and thanks to a recent TV ad, has became relevant again, you'll recognize it when you hear it:
Yeah, there aren't actually any Hamsters in this video or singing the song, but still a good song.
Finally, this next song wasn't really a huge it, but it's a little bit of a preview for what's to come in 1993, cause this was the debut of a certain rapper:
and there you go 1992 all wrapped up and you got to relive it, glad you weren't raptured yet?
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