'Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)' - Def Leppard (Though 'Turn It On Again' remains unimpeachable.) 37. This is a decent song, but the video for previous single 'I Can't Dance',with its obligatory-for-'93 Bugle Boy Jeans commercial parody and Phil Collins single-eyebrow-raise at 0:44, is where I officially hopped off the Genesis train. Speaking of which, has anyone seen Backstrom? Was the pitch for that show really He's a brilliant detective, and he's deeply unpleasant in every way? Are we getting to the point where you pitch a show and then your big twist at the end is the lead character is a person with whom you would voluntarily spend your time? 38. 'Walking on Broken Glass' - Annie LennoxĪ video from the peak of Hugh Laurie's 'hapless fop' era, long before his 'unrepentant genius asshole' period began. Luckily 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' doesn't have a proper guitar solo, or poor Joe Perry would have been on an actual asteroid.

He's an aging Ralphie in a Southwestern A Christmas Story). It was an arms race, really: Slash gets a dusty desert playa/churchyard, Sambora gets a mountaintop (and a cold one, apparently look how bundled up ol' Richie is. In the immediate aftermath of 'November Rain,' the guitar-solo helicopter shot was de rigueur for the big-ticket rock band. Let's relive this shining pop moment, over and over again. First up: February 1993, circa the release of the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day. So let's hop into my virtual time machine and set a course for the distant past, where, as befits a new column entitled 'Somewhere in Time,' we'll survey the hit songs of the day. Katy Perry's Super Bowl performance is still echoing in my head, and I long for a simpler, funkier, Toad the Wet Sprocketsier time. Hello, ! I am thrilled to be with you, but let's get out of here.

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