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Eight Things I Learned From Intermittently Watching VH1 Classic's "80 Hours Of The '80s"
Before we get into the news of the day, some notes on VH1 Classic's weekend programming, which consisted of the channel showing a chunk of its vault's videos from the '80s in alphabetical order (by artist, then by song). Why the evil geniuses at Viacom wanted to encourage shut-in-ism among the part of its demographic that probably needs sunshine and air more than most is beyond me, but that's probably because I was too busy getting sucked in to give it much thought.
1. Paul McCartney's "Spies Like Us" was, perhaps surprisingly, not a terrible "movie tie-in track" like so many other songs I had the pleasure of catching over the course of the weekend. (Although the ending to the video, which has Macca, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase "humorously" crossing Abbey Road, is wrong on too many levels.) But I'm still a total sucker for "No More Lonely Nights."
2. People—including someone in VH1 Classic's graphics department—still have a problem with the whole "where to put the apostrophe when you're abbreviating a decade" thing. Just think of it this way: The apostrophe goes where the numbers are missing. In this case, when you say "'80s," that apostrophe is actually a teeny, tiny knife that lops off a "1" and a "9"!
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