Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)

[uwe]

Xanadu is one of my guilty pleasures too. Nothing wrong with a little cheese.

Or a lot.

[westen44]

The people involved with it knew while filming Xanudu that is was going to be a problematic movie.  But I liked Olivia Newton-John and ELO.  I never really needed a group of critics who thought they were too cool for school to tell me it was wrong to like the movie.  Another cheesy sci-fi/fantasy movie from 1980 was Flash Gordon.  In this one, of course, Queen provided the music.  Even more so than Xanudu, the movie didn't even attempt to take itself seriously. 

[slinkp]

 All this time I thought Don't Bring Me Down was their biggest hit! It was inescapable when I was a kid. Relentlessly catchy.


A little research confirmed it did indeed get their highest US chart position (#4) and double platinum at 2 million sales... But!! Mr Blue Sky, while it topped out at #35 here, seems to have won the long race, hitting triple platinum.

[Dave W]

Last night I watched Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which is streaming free on Roku. The bassist in Weird Al's band was playing what appears to be a Ripper. The actor Spencer Treat Clark played the bassist. The real bassist's name appeared in the credits.

There was also a scene in which the leader of another band, who had earlier rejected Al, held up a TBird at the end of their set.

This is a comedy, not a biopic. I recommend it. Daniel Radcliff plays Weird Al, but Al himself plays a record company exec. Some surprising cameos, like Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol.

[uwe]

Albeit in a thread devoted to fat-bottomed girls, this timeless vid starts with a shot of nothing of the sort before reverting to the subject at and in the hands of the bassist/lead vocalist. Also lyrically a treat - Ted Mulry's heartfelt, even poignant observations would survive closer scrutiny even today and remain unchallenged.

[uwe]

Mark Mendoza (the other one) grabbers you by the balls with New York's finest ...

[OldManC]

Mark Mendoza (the other one) grabbers you by the balls with New York's finest ...

Was this band ever sponsored by Q-tip?

[uwe]

So that - after the cleansing process - their singing would be more in key, you mean? 

Even their fans (like me) will admit that The Dictators were not The Beach Boys as harmonies go, especially live. And Handsome Dick Manitoba, their former roadie who initially would guest on only one song (Wild Thing?) with them on stage until they realized that there was something about him that made people want to watch him, wasn't really a singer, but a character/stylist. Andy Shernoff (the keyboarder here, but often also bassist, and main songwriter) and Richard Teeter (the drummer) both were probably better singers than Handsome Dick.


(Scott "Top Ten" Kempner, the rhythm guitarist, sure had a cute butt and he certainly knew it too!)

But I still have a soft spot for stuff like this ...





They are actually staging their umpteenth reunion! With Albert Bouchard (ex-BÖC) on drums.

[OldManC]

So that - after the cleansing process - their singing would be more in key, you mean? 

More for their hair than anything else. 

[uwe]

Look who's talking! 

I always loved The Dictators' "Jewfros".

[Alanko]

This thread is not going in the reich direction.

[uwe]

Why, there is a Grabber present?



The Dictators were chest-beatingly proud of their NYC-Jewish roots and not exactly obsessed with being pc:

Hippies are squares with long hair
And they don't wear no underwear
Country Rock is on the wane
I don't want music, I want pain!

The Dictators can swing
Make you dance and sing
Cause an oil spill
You don't know us, but you will!

We're the members of the master race
Got no style, and we got no grace
Sleep all night, sleep all day
Nothing good on t.v. anyway

Gasoline shortage won't stop us now, Oh no!

We've reached a higher spiritual plane
That is so high, I can't explain
We tell jokes to make you laugh
We play sports so we don't get fat

We can sweat and stink
We can eat and drink
Don't do what we're told
And we're scared of growing old!

We're the members of the master race
We don't judge you by your face
First we check to see what you eat
Then we bend down and smell your feet

Hope you don't pick your nose!

My favorite part of growing up
Is when I'm sick and throwing up
It's the dues you've got to pay
For eating burgers every day

Take my vitamin c
No one's good for me
Life can take it's toll
When you're living ROCK N' ROLL!!!

We're the members of the master race
Got no tact, and we got no taste
First you put your sneakers on
Going outside to have some fun

Don't forget to wipe your ass!

C'mon guys!

[ilan]

Groucutt played G-3s quite a bit.

Because they are lovely basses. I'd say a bit Fendery but that will get me banned here, right?

[uwe]

Like a Fender P with which you have oral sex on a parking lot at night, not knowing her or - let's be inclusive - his name, ok? You know it's all wrong, but it's sooo good. That definition of a Grabber I stipulated as far back as Dude Pit days still, uhum, stands.

[Ken]

So that - after the cleansing process - their singing would be more in key, you mean? 

Even their fans (like me) will admit that The Dictators were not The Beach Boys as harmonies go, especially live. And Handsome Dick Manitoba, their former roadie who initially would guest on only one song (Wild Thing?) with them on stage until they realized that there was something about him that made people want to watch him, wasn't really a singer, but a character/stylist. Andy Shernoff (the keyboarder here, but often also bassist, and main songwriter) and Richard Teeter (the drummer) both were probably better singers than Handsome Dick.


(Scott "Top Ten" Kempner, the rhythm guitarist, sure had a cute butt and he certainly knew it too!)

But I still have a soft spot for stuff like this ...





They are actually staging their umpteenth reunion! With Albert Bouchard (ex-BÖC) on drums.

All I have to add to this is that Handsome Dick is a genuinely really nice guy. He's the godfather of my friends' kid.