Big Hair Video Lair

  • It’s Fly When Girls Stop By for the Summer(time)

    Song: “Summertime Girls,” by Y&T Year: 1985 Like warm weather, March Madness (go Heels!), and baseball, I AM BACK and ready to bring you down Aquanet-soaked memory lane on a much more frequent basis. And what better way to kick off Spring Break than with Y&T’s “Summertime Girls”? Well before LFO, there was Y&T, and Friend of

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  • Bang Your Head: Heavy Metal and Its Curative Properties

    Year: 1983 Song: “Metal Health (Bang Your Head)” by Quiet Riot If you’re asking how the hell it took so long to get to Quiet Riot, well, I can’t blame you. You know, they’re only the first metal band to have a number 1 record on the Billboard charts. So to kick of 2016 (dare I say

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  • “I’m a Romantic Adventure and a Reptile Too”: This Is Not a Lemmy Thinkpiece

    Year: 1984? Song: “Killed by Death,” by Motorhead I leave for L.A. this week. My to-visit list includes the Whisky, Canter’s Deli, and of course, the Rainbow, where I was dearly hoping to run into Lemmy. I was thinking about this plan and, you know, the possibility of us becoming best friends yesterday evening. An hour later, the

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