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Idolator's Videodrone Halloween Parade: People Were Really Obsessed With Freddy Krueger In The '80s


This Fat Boys video is just the razor-sharp tip of a Nightmare On Elm Street video onslaught, capturing the moment when Robert Englund replaced whoever was wearing the Jason mask at the time as America's favorite horribly disfigured supernatural serial killer. With that in mind we bring you four Freddy-related videos, one for each deadly finger. (P.S. The lack of a clip for "Nightmare On My Street" is a heinous omission in the Nightmare video canon.) More »

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"Time" Lets Hard Rock Fanboy Fawn Over His Idols

Apparently some Time story got killed at the last minute, because this barely copyedited piece on the recent resurgence of hard-rock bands that can only be described as "odd" for a lot of reasons somehow made it to the magazine's site. Not only is Don Dokken referred to as "Dan" in the story's second sentence (ouch!), and not only does Vince Neil's assertion that Motley Crue is in its heyday right now go unquestioned, and not only was the Rocklahoma festival—which, if anything, was the moment that hard rock could have been claimed as ruling the roost during the just-completed summer concert season—completely ignored (as was the fact that many of these touring bands were full of reshuffled hired guns), the numbers that were presented as evidence of writer/CNN Headline News personality Kris Osborn's "rock is back!" thesis were subject to some curious inflation: More »