Juat picture the music world of 1981 that existed when Whip it came out. The fact the video was even played on mainstream tv at the time was remarkable. Surely just watching it now must still bring a smile to your face. If not at least remember the rug rats music.

and not a word of that in the article. Key moment of the song where they show some of the ridiculousness of Jaggers delivery. Its the Sideshow Bob rake sequence set to music.

Jack went up the hill? It was a hit believe me.

Hipsters hating on classic rock again, shooting fish in a barrel.

Maybe, but I haven't had to rob any cash registers, yet…

Only Mumford gets invited to rock n roll hall of fame, the sons have to pay and sit in the crowd glaring whilst Mumford plays with a supergroup, later on he shits on the black keys (whoops you've already covered that).

So it covers the period up to Paul's death.

Goes great with scrumpy cider.

Didn't he introduce the replacements on SNL?

Addiction to painkillers, don't forget that stage, all that heavy lifting they do.

Around here they even claim crowded house, had this argument many atime on these boards. Like claiming Wings as a scottish band.

Stepbrothers,..?.I mean cmon.

No JG Ballard references?

The man was responsible for that awful, awful Sherry. There's no way that can be forgiven.

Just the sheer fact that James Brown, Brother Ray and Aretha were getting some main stream movie attention in 1980 was a gift in itself. For us in far away nz we were shocked to see the famous Booker T boys were mainly white. The boys spending so much of the studios money on their music passion (and car chases) was…

We only got the full version in around '85 when the home video was released.

Any blatant drug use was cut. Saturday night fever was cut.

The drug deal was cut out of NZ and Aus theatre versions. All they saw was two ol' boys going for a ride.

The Band's version wasn't on the soundtrack, more contractual issues, which makes me curious about the Dylan help that was referenced?

He invented world music don't you know.