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Marillion was/is a progressive rock band (their name is taken from J.R.R. Tolkein's The Silmarillion) that had their greatest commercial success in the early to mid eighties with their original singer - Fish. My all time favorite song, by anyone, is "Script for a Jester's Tear."

Other songs/videos by Marillion...

(Pseudo Silk Kimono)/Kayleigh/Lavender - Written by Fish after a 10 hour acid trip, about the end of his relationship with his girlfriend, Kay.

He Knows You Know

Garden Party

Unfortunately, I didn't really discover their music until the summer/fall of 1991. This was wholly thanks to Brian Sieker, who had the most incredible mix tapes that always seemed to include something from Marillion and Rush. We spent that summer driving around Lake Carmel, NY, listening to those mix tapes, playing tennis, going to see "Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves" WAAAAAY too many times(7?? 8??)

.... thanks again, Brian. :)

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Being a child of the 80s, I grew up in front of the tv. More specifically, MTV. Actually, any station that had a 'music video' program would get my undivided attention. I remember spending entire Sunday afternoons watching 'Nick Rocks' on Nickelodeon. Even if it was the 500th time I had seen that particular episode with the same 6 videos. I was hooked. I wanted my MTV!

Since it's late, I'm going to give you the Reader's Digest version of what I originally intended to post... I have more than one friend who was 'MTV deprived' during their formative years. Being the good (corrupting) friend that I am, I going to share my favorite music videos - with or without explanation - here on my blog for their benefit....whether they like it or not.

I'm going to start out with 4 videos from my favorite band from junior high (I told you I was a child of the 80s), who's success was largely due to their first video that was innovative at the time for it's use of the 'Rotoscoping' animation technique.

These videos are circa 1986 by the Norwegian pop trio, A-ha, from their debut album, "Hunting High and Low".

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"My knowledge of Heavy Metal is limited to what they would allow in Kentucky....which was 'Winger'. "

-Carpool Dan
(In response to my "What do you mean, you've never heard of 'Dokken' "?)

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"Wait. You're telling me Jimmy freakin' Fallon is better than Rowan Atkinson. Are you sure you didn't have some of Dan's Windex?"

-Steven K.

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