Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/05/video-killed-the-radio-star.html
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Feeling nostalgic about an acoustic cover of a digital song about acoustic nostalgia.
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That was incredibly pleasant. So much so I cannot put into words how elated I now am this Friday afternoon.
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For my money, the best cover of this song is a 10+ year-old street recording of a group of highschool kids called The Wrong Trousers. Such pure, delightful, awkward sincerity.
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'80s pop, Sarah Silverman, and puzzled babies. Love it.
The Buggles’ original version is famous as the first video to air on MTV – they already knew Gen Xers liked their irony.
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Can’t listen while at work, but if it’s anything like WOTE’s other covers, then I’m sure it will be worth the wait until I get home.
I remember that day clearly; I was 5 years old and there were no commercials at all, just cool animations in between the 10-15 videos they had in their entire roster.
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I prefer this cover version:
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I was going to say something about how Sarah Silverman is covering a song that’s older than she is, so a nostalgic cover of a nostalgic song where the performer wasn’t around for either the events the song’s about or the original release of the song itself.
But then I find that Silverman is just incredibly youthful looking, and would have been 8 or so when the song came out.
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Remember seeing this video in Sears on this.
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Wait, you mean it’s not “Vinny O’Gill, the radio star”? I’ve been hearing it wrong all these years?
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Walk Off the Earth’s videos are always so much fun! Extra rainbow sprinkles for M. Silverman. 
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Good theme for a song.
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Hold my beer: For 30 years or so I thought (a) the lyrics were “She’s Got Better Days Inside”*, and (b) that they were sung by Rod Stewart.
* Which makes for a much more interesting version of "She's Got Betty Davis Eyes", in my opinion. ;)
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I like The Wrong Trousers’ cover:
Edit: Ninja’ed by @cahutchins
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Made me smile. Thanks.
And for you folks who can’t listen at work, don’t you bring earbuds?
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Sarah Silverman is pretty much perfect.
Yeah pretty much
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It was all downhill for MTV after they played that song.
Seriously, always loved that song.
Wow! That was brilliant! Thanks!
Olive’s a seal?
(I’ll link to the original in due course if nobody else does.)
(And is this now going to become one of those threads?) @Lexicat
Oh, and had not come across WOTE before so heading off the check out some more. That was a wonderful thing, for sure.
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Just wanted to share that I think I’m hallucinating (no pharmaceuticals involved), as I’d swear that Sarah Silverman singing is the same exact voice that she used for Vannelope VonSchweetz (and I watched the video imagining that it was a WOTE/Wreck it Ralph crossover…
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