Lisa was an uptown girl living on the reasonably affluent northeast side of town. It was a fairly modern sub-division where all the streets either end in cul-de-sacs or have gently sweeping curves. Her parents were very nice and she had a little brother that was just waiting for somebody to teach him about Heavy Metal. Her house was on one such cul-de-sac. It might have even been the first time cul-de-sac entered my practical vocabulary.
I hung out with her at her home quite a bit during The Rise & Fall Of ’84.Something we did just about everyday was watch MTV. The young music channel was in it’s third year and you could tell that the artists and record company’s had learned a lot about making music videos in that time. The time of simply capturing a live performance had given way to big production pieces like Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
The art of the music video was fairly broad. Some were mature and cinematic others were corny and tried too hard to use the video technology that was emerging at the time. Media graphics have come a very long way since then. I really miss those old MTV days and I feel so fortunate that I was there to see it before it got too real world.
The Cars – You Might Think
Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days
Steve Perry – Oh Sherrie
Billy Joel -Tell Her About It