Getting our John Cusack ala High Fidelity on, are we Paw? :D

But seriously, it's amazing to hear all the music you were brought up on. You were very fortunate to have such a great musical childhood.

Quite an interesting collection Paw, Michael Jackson's Bad for the win

Okay, I don't know if it's the fact that it's late at night or that I've tapped into my inner dirty minded 12 year old but "Don't Mess With My Toot-Toot" just cracked me up. And that's before we even got into the Dancey Fun Time Shenanigans! :-P

I've also been doing a little bit of nostalgic music traveling myself lately (especially when it comes to the music I listened to as a young kid) so coming across these videos was a real nice, surprising treat. Seeing all those records (Disney, Michael Jackson and Moody Blues records!!) brings back a flood of memories surrounding records, tapes and those very first CD's of my childhood.

Thanks for the bringing the laughs, smiles, memories and funky dance moves with this video, Paw!

I'm surprised you didn't know Snoopy's Christmas. You know he's a World War I Flying Ace, what, with his Sopwith Camel in a never-ending fight against the Red Baron.

Also, the song is a sequel to another song they did about Snoopy fighting the Red Baron. I hear it every Christmas on the radio. You should really listen to the whole thing some time, Paw.

When I lived with my mom and dad, we had a bookshelf in one room that had quite the width. And all along the bottom shelf was records of my father's. I grew up with them, and even though there was very little overlap here, I got SUCH a wicked nostalgic buzz from these videos, just remembering those records.

Peter Gabriel was such a huge influence on me growing up, because he was, practically, my dad and my mom's favourite singer. And damnit, "Kiss that Frog" will always be one of his best works. It's because of my upbringing that, while I do like several of Gensis's songs with Phil Collins as front, Peter Gabriel's run will always be the one I think of first.

Ah, these videos are like a VLog done awesome.

Had a feeling Rockin' Sideny was from Louisiana with that accordion he was playing. Toot-Toot!

As a 30year old metal-head from Sweden I'm surprised that I knew about 80% of the songs.
Keep up the good work Paw

PAW! I am disappointed in your confidence with your fans! Who could NOT know about Pinball Wizard! Great Video, and you reminded me of that song from Tears of Fear. I am finding I am liking a lot of 80's music like that..

Yeah, he seems to think that only 20% of his audience played Rock Band 2...fairly conservative number considering that even non-nerds play those games to death, and let's face it, this website is dedicated to a bunch of nerds. But is all cool, I wouldn't want Paw to think I'm messing with his Toot-Toot.

i listen to most of these songs wile i was deliverying chinese food today alone thank god for the classic rock startion

Quiet Hipster.

You can actually try to fix some of those looping vinyl grooves by lengthening them (so that you get a slopish form) a bit with a broken matchstick or something just as sharp. A different record player with a different needle might also ignore them. Can't do that with CDs, or your broken hard drives!

Pity that Arthur Brown looped - that's a ridiculously awesome record and should be heard by everyone.

Never seen records that small before. Mom's are the size of pizza pies.

I've got a few records I stole from my mother, even had some imported from overseas. Now I never knew records were region coded, but I can't get the Japanese ones to play on any of our record players for love nor money. & would you think that a very young girl would play Phil Collins & the Beach Boys to the point where the records weren't playable anymore?

I own the Never Ending Story soundtrack :D It was released on CD & cassette in the early 90s, the record would be harder to find.

Was that Bing Crosby?

Wish I'd had more records as a kid instead of tapes; no rewinding, no fast forwarding, no metalic grinding sound, no breaks in the tape.

I agree with you taste in music, not so much with Todd in the Shadows.

I wanna hear Benzaie sing "It's not easy being green."

I love Peter Gabriel, well, you'd be hard pressed to find a song from the 80s I DON'T like. I miss those artsy stop-motion music videos too.

My mom & uncle love that Steppinwolf song.

Every time someone says "jumpin jack flash," I picture a woman with her dress stuck in the shredder.

Whaaaa? The Fucking Hams?

I always had problems hearing the lyrics in that Genesis song: "She sees the hat rack, is she gonna touch it? She reaches in, & pulls the pony apart." WTF?

I like the version of "Eh, Cumpari!" by The Gaylords, where they interrupt the song with a long joke about an airplane.

Lol, I have the Xanadu soundtrack too.

I won't touch your toot-toot if you don't touch with mine, lol.

But come on, I'm sure over 20% of us can get The Who :P

(Or maybe I'm the one with high hopes? haha)

that snoopy's christmas song sounds like a christmas version of "snoopy verses the red baron." i had that song ironically on an old peter pan record. I'm sure you could find the original song on youtube somewhere

You need to listen to "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" and the "The Red Baron Returns" by The Royal Guardsmen to get the back story (yes there is a back story) on "Snoopy's Christmas". Don't discount the band look them up and find their anthology album. Some campy stuff but still interesting musically IMHO.


"Snoopy's Christmas" is one of my favorite Christmas songs so I have to admit wanting to dive through my monitor and slap sense into you when you said you didn't know it!

i cant believe Paw didnt know it either. As others have posted, yes, indeed it was a trilogy of songs devoted to the story of Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Some may think it sounds campy, but it actually tells a good story. And, if you had the full LP they even included little war correspondence bits, in the style of BBC radio during WWII. Anyone who is not familiar with these songs should check them out. You'll have a whole new respect for all the Peanuts specials on TV when you see Snoopy sit on top of his dog house.

I don't think it was Bing Crosby singing White Christmas, it didn't sound like him. Also Paw, in case you were wondering Phil Harris sang The Bare Necessities in the movie though I don't know if he was the one on the record. Also, Eh Cumpari is an Italian song. Not Spanish. (Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari Chi si sona? U friscalettu. E comu si sona u friscalettu? u friscalette, tipiti tipiti tam.)


Great collection though. Loved hearing the Stones, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Steppenwolf, The Doors, Genesis, Michael, and the band that sang Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

I remember a lot of these songs, and think I might have even had some of these records growing up.
This was by far, too me at least, one of the best videos you have released.
The last two minuets was the best part, I haven't laughed out loud like this for a long time.
Thank you for sharing this with us. :D

Why was I so hypnotised by that dance?!

I'm surprised that I recognised some of those songs from the Rock Band games, especially the stuff from The Who and Tears for Fears.

I suddenly feel like my musical education is woefully inadequate, but then again I wasn't much of a music fan when I was a kid; I didn't really start getting into it until I was at university. I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do!

Next to He-Man, The Neverending Story is the biggest song that takes me back to my childhood...
I wish the soundtrack had the original movie version of the Swamps of sadness. Ivory Tower was awesome, too. I wish it had the original movie version of Ivory Tower, too ... the instruments sounded a lot better for both.
But who could forget the song for riding the Luck Dragon (forget his name now)?

Man, i totally want a turn-table now for slow-mode and trip-outs with my parents' Pink Floyd albums - and many more albums ... i should go through them again - if they still have'em.

I never cared much for the Stones, either. Lots of hype, but not as impressive as most of the music i listen to.

I did like that Everybody Wants to Rule the World song ... just hazey memories of sitting in the back seat with my brother while my parents drove to work, dropping us off at daycare - this would be one of those dreamy-sounding songs. Especially at 6am being forced into a car, hehe. Plus that "You've got the Eyyyyyyyyyyyyes of a Stranger" song, and that "Africa" song.

These were enjoyable!

Epic chair dance at the end!

I love the sad little whimper the record player does when you turn it off mid song. These videos have made me realize that I'm actually pretty ignorant of music from the 80s and earlier, so I really should brush up.

Thanks for telling me about the Never Ending Story soundtrack and Genesis too! :)

Wooow! This Toot toot song was the fav song of my little sister! But the german version. I dont even knew it was a cover (or was the german version there first and got translated into english?).

The german version makes not much more sense either. He is singing: "Ich liebe mein Tuut tuut, es macht immer tuut tuut, das hat die Welt noch nicht gesehen." which means: I love my toot toot, it always makes tuut tuut. Its something that the world has never seen before.

But its never clear what this tuut tuut thing is, I think its a kind of a toy or something.

Oh wow thanks Paw this made my day.Ahh the flashbacks to childhood.

"I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you!"
Arthur Brown is great, best dancer ever.
I enjoyed that walking in different circles song, I'll look into that one for sure.
Glad to hear you found a piece of your childhood, for better or worse.

Man, hearing those vinyls sounds really...tasty. My uncle would love that. He's a got a really good vinyl collection, including a badass sound system for it.

I can't watch the second part until I get home, but there's something you keep doing that I haven't even thought about in at least twenty years: My dad taught me to handle records by the center and the edges. You keep holding them up and I keep cringing! Gaaaaaaah!

Otherwise, this is totally awesome. I'm old enough that records were common when I was a kid, though young enough that I remember their disappearance. I had that Fisher-Price toy record player that everybody had. What do they have now, toy iPods?

*waving her cane*

That Steppenwolf 45 and Hendrix 45 you should hang on to and if at all possible clean them.

Wow, this video took me back. "The Neverending Story" record?! That might come up missing...

I remember my brother and I ticking off my parents because we would listen to Dio's "Holy Diver" over and over and over again, and we thought it was the funniest thing making it play really fast and sound chipmunky. Oh wait... we still do that. Heh heh.

NeverEnding*

lol you don't know arthur brow?
here:
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

I just started watching your vids a couple weeks ago Paw, but this really sold me on your vids. You are friggin adorable, man. So much great music here, and your dancing is epic.