So young gribley, inspired by my good self, posted something a while back about youtube as “the neutron bomb of copyright violations.” Then I came across this link to somewhere in the region of 1,500 music videos from twenty years ago.
Looking through that list, I realised youtube isn’t just an archive of hair metal and androgynous new romantics – there’s a whole bunch of eighties hardcore and punk on there too. So I’ve been wasting time this evening finding ropey old videos of Husker Du, the Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys and, of course, the Minutemen. Here’s ‘A Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing’: