"Out of the Blue" music video review on blog

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Found a review of the classic video for Deb's "Out Of The Blue" on rulefortytwo.com blog that I found while googling. The blogger's review is part of videos he/she watched on a video tape containing videos from MTV's "Top 100 of 1988", which the video was ranked at #70. (unfortunately, "Foolish Beat" wasn't on the countdown)

Here's the music video for "Out Of The Blue"


And the greatest video of 1988, IMHO (not just saying it because I'm a fan)... "Foolish Beat"



Some comments I want to point out:

The mark on her knee was a face drawn... also seen on cover of her debut album.

Jeff is future Tonic member Jeff Russo

Those were her actual band members in the video

The bedroom setting was actually her own (at the time)

Denis is her sister & Monica is her cousin

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Yay! the blogger mentioned about the omission of "Foolish Beat"

Though forgot to mention (or doesn't know) about the song making her the youngest artist to write, produce, and record a #1 hit. Don't think the person was a fan or probably just liked a few songs. Though agree that it should've been on the top 10 (actually #1, IMHO).

I’m on the road today, so you’ll have to wait until next Tuesday to find out what the #91 video is. But I’ll take the opportunity to tell you about one song that isn’t on this countdown at all: Debbie Gibson’s “Foolish Beat.” The ballad hit #1 on the Billboard singles chart in June 1988, and did even better on MTV, ruling the countdown show Dial MTV for weeks on end. So why wasn’t it anywhere in the network’s top 100 videos of the year? The best theory my friends and I came up with on that New Year’s Eve (after our outrage simmered down a bit) was that the channel had no good place to put it on the countdown. By rights, it should have been in the top ten, but they presumably believed it wasn’t a hip enough song to warrant that placement. (We’ll revisit that judgment when we hit the actual top ten.) But if it was much lower, it would have been obvious that the fix was in. So they left it off altogether, assuming that nobody would be obsessive enough to watch the entire top hundred, and that reasonable people would assume that an unseen video was in a part of the countdown that they missed. Well, we showed them. Never underestimate the obsession of music geeks (or the willingness of MTV to cook the books).

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Old thread about MTV's Top 100 of 1988, based on a list I found


Not to mention no Taylor Dayne...

I'm sure "Smooth Criminal" (Michael Jackson, RIP) was also from that year...

As for #2, I know that video spent the most #1 on "Dial MTV" for 68 days  (though average video) and #3 was Video of the Year at the 1988 Video Music Awards (one of my favorite INXS videos)... As for #1, pretty much average (ie Guns N' Roses performing at a sound stage)...

1. Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O’ Mine
2. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
3. INXS - Need You Tonight/Mediate
4. Aerosmith - Rag Doll
5. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
6. Escape Club - Wild Wild West
7. Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
8. George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
9. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
10. George Michael - Father Figure

[Out of the Blue]

I remember hearing Deborah in an interview say that when the "Out of the Blue" video was filmed there had been several inches of snow in the New York area the day before and there were all sorts of problems filming because of that.  She gets a face full of windblown snow while she's sitting in the gazeebo outside.

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The list was probably based on rotation (and videos being picked from a hat by whoever that created the list) and that teen artists weren't taken seriously at the time.


Kylie Minogue's "Locomotion" was ranked at #87.

The Jets, Tiffany, and New Kids  weren't listed.


"Smooth Criminal" was at 60 (a bit low...) though Taylor Dayne was nowhere on the list.




Oddly, Michael Bolton's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"  was ranked at #88.    (MTV aired Bolton videos... :eek: )

#51 Bobby McFerrin "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (perhaps one of the worst songs ever)

Though there's some some songs/videos I'm not familiar with (may not be played often now, but might've been overplayed then...or whatever)...

LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali" and Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two" were also popular  and not on the countdown.

 Though rap wasn't yet as popular in the mainstream (despite of the popularity of Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J) and many probably still looked at as as a fad rather than another music genre. There's a few rap videos on the countdown and "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered that same year.

[Out of the Blue]

Despite what they might say MTV strongly favored certain bands and types of music above all else despite what the charts might have been.  It was easy to tell they heavily promoted what was called "Neo Hippie" music even though that music was a tough sell to the masses and generally didn't do well on any of the Top 40 charts.

[Erica]

The list was probably based on rotation (and videos being picked from a hat by whoever that created the list) and that teen artists weren't taken seriously at the time.


Kylie Minogue's "Locomotion" was ranked at #87.

The Jets, Tiffany, and New Kids  weren't listed.


"Smooth Criminal" was at 60 (a bit low...) though Taylor Dayne was nowhere on the list.




Oddly, Michael Bolton's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"  was ranked at #88.    (MTV aired Bolton videos... :eek: )

#51 Bobby McFerrin "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (perhaps one of the worst songs ever)

Though there's some some songs/videos I'm not familiar with (may not be played often now, but might've been overplayed then...or whatever)...

LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali" and Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two" were also popular  and not on the countdown.

 Though rap wasn't yet as popular in the mainstream (despite of the popularity of Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J) and many probably still looked at as as a fad rather than another music genre. There's a few rap videos on the countdown and "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered that same year.

LOL oddly enough I do remember MTV airing a few Micheal Bolton videos.  Just like I rmember seeing Celine Dion on there too and Amy Grant after she went pop.


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