{"id":1929,"date":"2010-04-16T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:53:11","slug":"friday_evening_videos_radio_ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/16\/friday_evening_videos_radio_ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: “Radio Ga Ga"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a little late posting up this week’s music vid, but hey, it’s still before midnight, right? Just consider this my homage to the good old days of middle school, when we kids who lived out in the sticks had to stay up ’til the wee hours to see Friday Night Videos<\/i><\/a> because we didn’t have cable service — and thus the holy font of all that was cool, circa 1983, MTV — like the lucky urbanites to the north.<\/p>\n


\nThis week’s selection is one I remember well from those late nights in a dark and chilly living room after my parents had gone to bed. I liked the song even before I saw the video, but the combination of wistful music with gritty black-and-white footage from the classic silent movie Metropolis<\/i> seared its way into my geeky heart. Here’s Queen performing “Radio Ga Ga”:<\/p>\n