As most of you already know, this week's featured video was supposed to be last week's featured video had Steven Colby posted a very bitchin' Human League clip to Facebook.
Tonight we have Terri Nun and Berlin's 1984 hit "No More Words" from the album "Love Life".
Prior to this release Berlin had scored international success with their debut album "Pleasure Victim". That album featured the hits "The Metro", "Sex" (I'm A) and "Masquerade".
This video is actually the first music video I remember seeing on the program.
In the clip Terri and the gang take on the persona of the legendary 30's outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. The group pulls of a bank heist with the coppers in hot pursuit:
A Little History:
...Terri Nunn rejoined the band as singer in 1980, and they signed to independent label Enigma Records on which they released a double A-sided single, "Tell Me Why" / "The Metro". The single was intended as a one-off, since Crawford was by then focusing on his new band Fahrenheit and regarded Berlin as a "just for fun" side project. However, the single was a success, helping to finance the EP album, Pleasure Victim, which was recorded on a $2,900 budget. The EP included their first significant hit: the controversial synth-driven "Sex (I'm A...)" (1982), which was banned by some radio stations due to its graphic lyrics. The song was intentionally written and composed to get airplay on Los Angeles radio station KROQ, which specialized in playing music that was not heard on other stations, and of which members of the group were fans. Due to the attention brought on by the single, wider release offers were made by larger record labels for Pleasure Victim. Geffen Records' offer was accepted and the label re-released Pleasure Victim worldwide in early 1983. The label also re-released "The Metro", which then became another hit. The band appeared at the 1983 US Festival.
Check out Berlin and a lot of tubular bands on my playlist: Cafe 80s: It's Electric
And now since you have all been so rad ... The Metro:
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