!!! BSB do Heavy Metal Parking Lot and I love it

directed by the director of the paris hilton sextape

>oh no no no. the ONLY video in the world that exists this week is the Backstreet Boys' 1985-mullet-hairmetal-tribute-concept vid that premiered on TRL yesterday, for "Just Want You To Know" (a Max Martin tune that's a pretty catchy clone of his three hits penned on the Kelly Clarkson album).

so beyond-retarded (possibly intentionally) it's great. they even blatantly cop one scene from the Blink 182 mullet-head video from a few years ago. long Heavy Metal Parking Lot tribute scene. and the "big arena band" the BSB 1985 mullet-headbanger boys are all such fans of -- the band also played by themselves of course -- SPYNKTER (with metal-logo exagerrated "cool lettering."). i wonder what comes up on Google already under Spynkter?

and the song itself (which the car of 5 mullet BSBs, and later the hair metal band themselves onstage, keep mouthing) has nothing in common with any style of music whatsoever that existed anywhere in the universe in 1985. classic. a must see / must tape. i should charge people 25 cents to see (my complete dub of) it.

the album may suck, but Backstreet's Back in the world of video!

yes...hedious! hiedously great!

the 20 days prior, now swapping #1 / #2 back/forth with last week's new Green Day video, the Hilary "Wake Up" song/video is awesomely early-Madonna-worthy (dance floor /club video) and had a 10 day run at TRL #1. .

>TRL must have gone wack a couple years ago, because during the teenpop era 97/8 - 2001, they sure played the entire videos for the Top 5 of the 10 slots. now they've got all the other stuff going on. i like the screamers. TRL is my favorite TV rock show of all time because of the screamers...they must figure that's what you do if you get into TRL, plus i guess it's exciting being on national TV if you're 16 and it's a schoolday.

i ran into the new Green Day/single juggernaut trying to get a full version of the "Wake Up" video. (a week or two ago i got an almost-complete version on a day when it was #1). the GD ballad went to #1 on the vote-lines faster than any video in TRL history (and they're in a couple of the teen pages this month...4 pages in BOP between a photo, two pages, and a "Get To Know Billie Joe" page). they had gone to #1 and bumped Hilary to #2.

Warning is the best GD album of their major label stuff (bobby christgau will tell you that too), Nimrod close behind. Dookie and American Idiot are their patchiest albums in their entire career but heavy with radio hits. (1992's) Kerplunk is one of the greatest rock albums ever cut by a rock band, but it was done on a $900 budget and sounds it. you have to be a techie or musician to be able to hear the performances on it. BUT the 5song/9minute "suite" "Jesus of Suburbia" that is the 2nd track after American Idiot, is reaaally tight. if that stuff was easy to do (writing), someone else would've done it since the Who's "Quick One While He's Away."

Bill A's a lifer. when i interviewed them in berkeley for a BAM cover story six weeks before Dookie racked, he had Beatles (BBC live stuff) vinyl bootlegs all over the place in that basement apartment/practice dungeon where they later did the "Longview" trash-the-couch video. ten years later? on MTV/Storytellers where they did a really good version of the "Jesus of Suburbia" thing (and actually, the entire American Idiot album i believe, minus cuts to commercials or their Q/A segments), i noticed that on the credits at the end, the final one was -- Inspiration: Ray Davies.

Bowling for Soup did the great garage-band video where the final verse/chorus goofed on Motley Crue's lame video for...uh...i believe "Home Sweet Home" (the stage moves and clothes). (i dunno if they ever did a video for Radio Disney kiddie favorite "Punk Rock 101"). but they goofed up one of the key lyrics bad -- it should have been (per 1985)

and who's that wrong guy
singing in Van Halen?

the crazy thing about "Wake Up"/Hilary being #1 on TRL for almost three weeks straight, is that THE VIDEO IS NOT IN MTV'S PLAYLIST otherwise. they're being anti-pop nazis. even "Tangled Up In Me" got all the way to a final viewer's weekly vote to add/don't add (to MTV's playlist), so i am clueless on this one. maybe they went retarded and thought, "oh, we've played too many Kelly Clarkson videos this month." and of course VH1 has always been anti-Hilary. she's too young for them or something. Liz Phair got what should have been hilary's VH1 slot for "So Yesterday," when Phair's lame Matrix hit was crawling up the charts at the same time. You couldn't get Liz Phair's voice in tune on a pop song with a million pitch adjusters. (i might have to check my vinyl 45 of "polyester bride" to make sure, though). <

I haven't heard a slab of anthemic pop this endearing since, well, I guess since "Since U Been Gone".

The chorus is so great!

Backstreet Boys

"Still hard at work on their less-than-triumphant (though not quite disastrous) comeback, the Backstreet Boys teamed up with Marc Klasfeld to make a music video designed to inspire mixed emotions. The video, for "Just Want You to Know," pays homage to the 1980's short film "Heavy Metal Parking Lot," a mini-documentary (it captures exuberant fans before a Judas Priest concert) that has enjoyed a surprisingly long shelf life. This video might have been conceived as parody, but Mr. Klasfeld turns it into something sweet and a little bit sad. Dressed up as overgrown headbangers, the boy-banders turned man-banders both mock and embrace their own fate: they look ridiculous. And while the members are clearly making fun of metal fans (and, by extension, their own fans), they're also reminding viewers that performers don't usually age much better than the people who love them. Mr. Klasfeld has helped a former pop leviathan deliver a message to its current supporters: we're all in this together."

promoting a friend's talk department:

Saturday Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. Jeff Krulik will be talking about his 1986 movie Heavy Metal Parking Lot (and other films) at the Anna Helwing Gallery on Melrose with former New York Underground Film Festival director Ed Halter.

That's for you Los Angeles ILXors

Is it as good as American Hi-Fi's homage to same?

I saw Krulik speak here in Portland about 6 or 7 years ago. There were maybe 12 or 15 folks in the audience. He was very excited about his new project at the time "Harry Potter Sidewalk".

http://noolmusic.com/music_video/backstreet_boys_-_just_want_you_to_know.php

So guess what was filmed 25 years ago today?

A 'where is he now?' story up today about one of the participants.

Is it as good as American Hi-Fi's homage to same?

Could you repeat that please.

that BSB song is so good.

I was hoping the update would be about the guy who says, "This is my girlfriend . . . she's thirteeeeeen."

He was joining the military, wonder if that happened and where he is today.

On the occasion of our exact 25th Anniversary, I thought I'd announce some upcoming screenings (paired with Heavy Metal Picnic):

Chicago Underground Film Festival
http://cuff.org/
Closing Night Film, The Gene Siskel Film Center
Sunday, June 5

American Film Institute,
AFI Silver Theater, Silver Spring, MD
http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/events.aspx#heavy
Friday, June 17

Copenhell Film Festival, Copenhagen
http://copenhell.dk/?page_id=159
European Premiere, hosted by Gunnar Hansen (aka Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
June 17, 18

George Eastman House, Dryden Theater
Rochester, New York
July 8, 9

Also Snag Films is helping to celebrate HMPL by posting
Heavy Metal Parking Lot Alumni: Where Are They Now?
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/heavy_metal_parking_lot_alumni_where_are_they_now/
and Heavy Metal Basement
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/heavy_metal_basement/

uh how did i not know about that bsb video until just now

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-deranged-true-story-of-heavy-metal-parking-lot-the-1758026762

The Deranged True Story Of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The Citizen Kane Of Wasted Teenage Metalness

This article traces the whole history of this --from the recording of it 30 years ago to how Kurt Cobain, Sofia Coppola and others came to love it. Plus the writer catches up with Zebraman and others from the film tody, to see what they're up to now and gets them to look back

I was hoping the update would be about the guy who says, "This is my girlfriend . . . she's thirteeeeeen."

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:41 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He was joining the military, wonder if that happened and where he is today

Discussed in the Deadspin article

special exhibit opens at U of MD Clarice Smith Center Friday

http://www.vice.com/read/the-ultimate-80s-rock-documentary-heavy-metal-parking-lot-will-never-die

more street team work:

In NYC Friday June 17

To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of this cult landmark, Anthology Film Archives will present HMPL and other Krulik chronicles, including his latest, Led Zeppelin Played Here (2014), a deep dive into an apocryphal 1969 performance by the blues-rock quartet at a rinky-dink community center in a D.C. exurb. Krulik will be in attendance for all the screenings, his avidity for eccentric enthusiasts undimmed.

wheaton's not a fuckin exurb!

sounds great tho

It is

Alas, Graham of Dope has passed.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-krulik/jalyn-graham-owens-sr-rip-1969-2020/10222674194271873/

And now the ultimate hyperedition.

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/heavy-metal-parking-lot-circle-collective?variant=40256540508202

HMPL just celebrated an anniversary too

Friday 6/24! Celebrate the 35th anniversary of HMPL in DC, featuring a screening of the doc, filmmaker discussion + music performance by JUDAS PRIESTESS, the world’s only all-female tribute to Judas Priest!! https://t.co/DiUN3Bae84 @SongbyrdDC @Judas_Priestess pic.twitter.com/rbdbLQEswI

— Zebraman (@HMPL35) June 20, 2022