asterios kokkinos
geoffrey golden
rob asaro
adam daroff
eric larnick
jenni powell
rob morrisonthe music video to “holiday road” is actually pretty terrible written by asterios on 01/14/08
boring. artsy. gay. call it what you will, but watching the music video to lindsay buckingham’s “holiday road” is like a call girl punching you in the face: you thought you’d like it, but two seconds in you’re like, “oh wow, this sounded a lot more fun in my head.”
this should have been the easiest possible video to make. clips of “national lampoon’s vacation” mixed with lindsay buckingham singing in a station wagon, or playing guitar on a roller-coaster, or laying on a beach but he keeps getting bothered by crabs or something. instead, someone took that old apple computers/1984 commercial and said, “how can I make this so much worse?”
the best/worst part of the video, however: lindsay pours himself a cup of water from a water cooler, then dumps it on the floor in defiance. the falling water becomes a river. i have no idea what this symbolizes.
in conclusion, watch this video 800 times.
filed under movies: 80s, music: 80s
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HexenDarkside Jan 14
Wow, I really never listened to this song too closley to begin with… but after watching this, im just confused. The point is everything ever makes a statemnt about something. Even my doodles about giraffes with switchblades. No. Especially them.
geoffrey Jan 14
according to this video, everyone in the 80’s is overworked. poor 80’s!
Nex Jan 19
Lindsey is a he?!
What dark reality hath National Lampoon wrought?!
clutchman Feb 1
Just so your all not disappointed, the song and video were made before the movie.
The head of Manuel Garcia Nov 9
I know, right? I just saw this for the first time while looking for an audio version of the song. I was filled with both short- and long-term nostalgia, but the video made short work of that! Now I question the very concept of the “vacation” as a control element to keep content worker drones from realizing the tyranny of wage slavery!