Throwback Music Video Review

Ryan, Louie & Al are gonna take it to you with our discussion and review of Twisted Sister's anthemic "We're Not Gonna Take It" music video.

Happy Belated New Year! It has been a crazy past 2 months with the guys so we finally let the dogs out for 2024. Al, Louie & Ryan take on the wild ride of Baha Men's immortal, "Who Let The Dogs Out?" and we have a bone to pick with its shady beginnings.

Things get heavy with this installment as Louie, Ryan & Al discuss puppets, a serial killer couple, and the New York based band Interpol through their uncanny music video, “Evil.”

For this time capsule, Al, Ryan & Louie discuss how our parents dealt with our relationship choices and failures during our youth.

In case you didn’t know, Ryan, Louie & Al are back again with our review of legendary comedienne, Tracey Ullman’s soulful 1983 smash hit, “They Don’t Know.” A lot to unpack with this one.

TMVR’s back, all right! It's episode 106 as Al, Ryan & Louie conclude our spooky music video series for October with the Backstreet Boys costume party of a music video “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” We talk about the boy band and some of the quirks and features of their 1997 smash hit.

There's something weird... in your podcast feed... It's episode 105 as we chug along in our spooky music video series for October. With Ray Parker Jr's immortal hit track, Louie, Al & Ryan discuss the circumstances behind the creation of the song and we rate the neon clad music video. Why? because reviewing makes us feel good!

In this bonus casual laissez-faire episode, Al & Ryan reminisce about how the 90s shaped us to who we are, collecting obsolete media. and making mixtapes.

Shoo bet it's Episode 102 as Louie, Ryan and Al discuss Nu-Shooz's, "Point of No Return." Is it a technical marvel, or pure 80s cheese? Why not both? Tune in as we regale you with Louie's youth with shoe shopping, and of course, awesome shoe trivia.

Load up your tinfoil and run towards Ryan, Louie and Al as we discuss the immortal hit of an immortal band, A Flock of Seagulls!

Al & Ryan reminisce about a haphazardly planned rave that went nowhere, party crews and backyard raves in general.

Finally! Episode 100 is here. Ryan, Al & Louie would like to thank to everyone who stuck by us through all the shows and we also apologize for the long hiatus. We are now back and we bring you one of the freakiest video we have reviewed: Bauhaus' 1981 offering, "Mask."

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2YH2ZRw2Q

Join Louie, Ryan & Al on a musical tour of the Corey Feldmansion in this bold one-take spectacular event of a music video.

Where’s your pod at? Ryan, Louie & Al discuss the monkey business of Basement Jaxx’s disturbing video for “Where’s Your Head At?”

Al, Ryan & Louie get bucked and talk about the circumstances of Hammer’s 1991 attempt to seize the glove. Along with a who’s who of 90s characters, this show hopes to earn your propers.

The guys recall their cartellish high school days when we had an operation of creating and distributing a zine called Libido.

Louie, Ryan & Al attempt to make a deal with god to generate a discussion worthy of Kate Bush’s immortal hit, “Running Up That Hill.” with no problems. Did we succeed? Tune in, find out.

Louie, Ryan and Al are sooooo sorry for the long delay of the upload of this review of Morrissey's James Dean homage. We break down our experiences with the culture of Moz, The Smiths, the music video, and trivia of James Dean. Enjoy!

Al, Ryan & Louie talk about going to concerts in the Covid era, specifically the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena and Tears for Fears at the SoFi Center. Some hijinks ensued in this riff raff minisode.

2012 marked the end of the Mayan calendar, and while the world didn’t end, it gave birth to “Gangnam Style” instead. Now Al, Louie & Ryan horseride toward one of the biggest pop culture event of the 21st century as we break down Psy's K-Pop classic.

For our second TMVR Time Capsule minisode, Ryan & Louie discuss their horrifying experiences of growing up around local gangs.

Louie, Ryan & Al take credit for the second symphony as we review the forever iconic Buggles music video. “Video Killed The Radio Star.”

Welcome to the first bonus minisode of the podcast we call TMVR Time Capsule. We've now come to a point where we would sprinkle in storytelling shows in between the main timeline of TMVR podcast.

For our first one, a young nubile Louie talks about trading toys with classmates with emphasis on the Sectaur toy and his transaction with another kid. Enjoy!

The TMVR Boys discuss the whacked out hallucinatory music video of the Get Boys classic 1991 ditty, “My Mind Playing Tricks On Me.”

We head over to the red planet as Al, Louie & Ryan dissect the spacey video for the RAH Band’s 1985 international hit, “Clouds Across The Moon.”

Check out Louie, Ryan & Al at your local library and listen as we sing the praises of Tears For Fears’ immortal 1985 hit, “Head Over Heels.”

Ryan, Louie & Al plug in our Tascams and reminisce on the plight of love as we discuss White Town's 1997 smash hit, "Your Woman."

Listen as Al, Louie and Ryan get knee deep in the hoopla as we review and talk about the blue screen wet dream of Starship's "We Built This City."

It's back to high school again as Louie, Ryan & Al take you on an otherworldly journey to M83's star-studded video, "Claudia Lewis."

Join Al, Louie and Too Ryan Ay as we discuss the musical stylings of Kevin Rowland and the Runners of Midnight while on Dexy.

Here we come agaaaaain!!! Pick up a Reader's Digest because we have some nice stories about losing our minds while we discuss Megadeth's chaotic "Sweating Bullets" music video.

Welp, after a turbulent 2021, Louie, Ryan and Al return to you now at the turn of the tide with our overdue review of Mint Royale's 2002 triphop track, "Blue Song."

It's episode 83 time as Ryan, Louie & Al discuss the Cars' iconic "You Might Think." Winner of the MTV Video Music Awards first ever Video of the Year.

Back from Covid quarantine, Al, Louie and Ryan discuss the iconic music video for Sia's "Chandelier", speculate on Sia's new movie, "Music," Shia LeBeouf and other tangents that you've come to expect from this show.

Get a bucket and a mop because it's time to clean your ears for our first show of the new year as Louie, Ryan & Al talk about Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion's moist hit, "W.A.P."

Merry Crickets everyone! For our holiday episode, Ryan, Louie & Al discuss the video for The Ramones' 1989 classic, "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight.) as well as toxic relationships during the holidays.

Al, Louie and Ryan are back after a little hiatus from the show! As we tread along the crazy year, we review Pink's 2008 music video, "Sober." Directed by Jonas Akerlund.

Louie, Ryan & Al talk about the Wachowski's only venture in music video direction with 2009's "Epilepsy is Dancing" by Antony & The Johnsons.

For this episode, Ryan, Louie, and Al discuss Bananarama's 1988 hit, "I Want You Back." Despite the upbeat goings-on of the video, we also yammered about cancel culture and the use of blackface in this Andy Morahan helmed video.

After three sessions and a ton of editing, we are back with the thrilling conclusion of the Unknown Pleasures Reimagined Music Video series! Al, Ryan & Louie take to Zoom and discuss the mailed in videos for Disorder, Shadowplay, and Wilderness while we mull over the validity of She's Lost Control and New Dawn Fades. Did we like 'em? Tune in find out!

Listen as Al, Ryan & Louie discuss an appropriate song for these inappropriate times. Stay strong!

We are still podcasting through Zoom so we apologize for the shoddy audio quality, but in this installment, Louie presents you all with his favorite artist of all time, Justin Bieber as we discuss the fresh music video for "Intentions."

We still are mired in the Branch Covidian lockdown at Ale Pie Studios but we finally came through and Zoomed and episode! Please forgive the audio quality, as Al's mic and wi-fi just wasn't up to par. But we hope you enjoy the discussion of The Lords of the New Church's "Dance With Me."

We'll take you down there to Episode 72 of Throwback Music Video Review podcast as Al, Ryan & Louie review the music video of the classic EBM hit "The Bog."

By special request, Louie, Ryan & Al are pleased to present to you our review of Cameo's worldwide hit, "Word Up." So tell all the boys and girls, tell your brother, your sister and your momma too!

So turn the podcast app on for Ryan Louie & Al ’s discussion of Lisa Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You.) We talk about Ethan Hawke, Reality Bites, one take movies, loft apartments, the 90s and of course Lisa herself!

In this nice episode, Al, Ryan & Louie talk about She Wants Revenge’s simplistic song but a complicated video for “Tear You Apart.”

For our Xmas Extravaganza, Louie, Ryan & Al discuss No Doubt's Christmas Skunk Classic "Oi to the World." Despite feeling mailed in, does this 1997 song hold up? Tune in. Find out.

In this hardcore installment, Ryan, Louie & Al talk about Pulp's video masterpiece "This is Hardcore" while casually glossing over the source material that the scenes of the video were taken from the photography book "Still Life." Still, give it a listen because this is a hardcore fun episode.

Watch out here we come! This episode, Al, Ryan & Louie discuss Dead or Alive’s never-ending classic “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).” We discuss the song, the band and the charismatic Pete Burns. Is this one a keeper or did it just take us for a spin?

To conclude the Halloween season, Louie, Ryan and Al discuss Animal Collective’s unsettling music video of “Who could Win A Rabbit.” And to keep it spoooooooky, we discuss about what makes a good modern era horror movie.

This Halloweeeeeeen season, Ryan, Louie & Al will torture you with their review of MGMT’s horrifically artistic music video, “Kids.” Spooooooky…

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most important albums of our time, Warner Brothers commissioned 10 directors to direct a music video for each song from the album. As of this recording, five have been released. Louie, Ryan & Al undertake the task of reviewing “I Remember Nothing,” “Day of the Lords,” “Insight,” “Interzone,” and “Candidate.” Do these videos do the songs justice? Tune in. Find out.

Louie, Ryan & Al celebrate their unbirthdays as they discuss on their checkered podcasting table, Tom Petty’ & The Heartbreakers’ collaborated classic video, “Don’t Come Around Here No More.”

Al, Ryan & Louie take you for a magic carpet ride around 1980s Spanish Harlem with our review of Benny Mardones’ taboo-filled music video, “Into The Night.”

Ah yeah, ah yeah! For this show, our limited view of K-Pop and South Korean culture is on full display as we discuss BLACKPINK's YouTube smash, "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du." Will our review make the Blinks happy? Tune in, find out!

For episode 59 we get in Kelly’s head and ping pong around the music video for Air’s Classic 1998 psychedlic pop song, “Kelly Watch The Stars.” ⭐️💫⭐️

Al, Ryan & Louie just wanna have fun with this episode where we discuss the innovative video for Vince Staples' smash hit, FUN!

Louie, Al & Ryan lives among the creatures of the night as they break down Laura Branigan's creepy music video hit, "Self Control."

Take a sidebar with Louie, Ryan and Al as they discuss El DeBarge's immortal hit, "Who's Johnny" in this landmark court case of a music video.

It's Episode 55 where we discuss the intricacies of Hammer & Prime Time Neon Deion's rap contribution to Street Fighter lore. We delve deep into our junior high days of school dances and the ghetto salad bar at 7-11.

Welcome to Episode 54 where we take you down to Chinatown as we review Mötley Crüe's music video, "Too Young To Fall In Love" and also engage in a spoiler-laden discussion about their Netflix biopic, "The Dirt."

Fall in love with episode 53 as the guys discuss The White Stripes’ iconic music video.

In episode 52, Ryan, Louie & Al talk about the dragging mellowness of the Moby 2002 music video for "We Are All Made of Stars." Throughout all this, a helicopter was involved. Tune in, find out how!

Ryan, Al & Louie are back for episode 51 where we discuss the classic pre-MTV promotional video for David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes. Did it get a heaven's high or did we give it an all time low? Take a listen!

From small timers like The Outfield, The Motels, to big shots like Foreigner, Rick Springfield, Paula Abdul, Madonna, Aerosmith, George Michael, Nine Inch Nails and Justin Timberlake, we celebrate this milestone episode by discussing some of David Fincher’s notable music video work. Hope you enjoy it!

We can’t stand it so we went ahead and planned a new episode that will blow your fake wig off. Ryan, Louie and Al sets it straight like Watergate with a discussion of the Beastie Boys’ Spike Jonze helmed music video for “SABOTAGE!!!”

Your hosts Al, Ryan & Louie will be pulling a triple duty as we review 3 different music videos for "Tainted Love." Listen to us yack about the Soft Cell 1981 version, the Soft Cell 1991 version and as a bonus, Coil's powerful 1985 cover of the Gloria Jones Northern soul classic.

Listen to Al, Ryan and Louie yammer on about museums, Michele Gondry, gorillas, and egg meditation under the umbrella of Bjork’s “Army of Me” music video.

Feed the cast! Al, Ryan & Louie join the ranks of super megagroup Band Aid and go behind the scenes and riff about the making of the 1984 Christmas classic, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Have a festive Xmas day and thank you for your listening ears!

This Christmas, Louie, Ryan & Al will give you their hearts and the very next day, you're can give it away. Enjoy our festive discussion about Wham's hit and our experiences with this most wonderful time of the year.

Will you do the fandango and join Al, Ryan & Louie for a discussion about the music video for Queen's timeless classic, "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Look both ways before you cross this episode as Al, Ryan & Louie discuss Kali Uchis' 2018 hit, "after the Storm" featuring Tyler the Creator & Bootsy Collins.

With this creepy crawly new episode, Al, Ryan & Louie review The Cure’s “Lullaby” just in time for Halloween! Spoooooky!

With this installment, Al, Ryan & Louie talk about the inner demons of Tool's classic music video for "Sober."

Listen to Louie, Ryan and Al bless the internet with the review of Toto's gift to mankind and the video that followed it.

Would Al, Louie & Ryan knock down this 90s smash hit? Get up again and see if we can keep it down.

Listen to Al, Ryan & Louie talk about Lady Gaga's 2008 smash hit video. "Paparazzi." We also are starting a giveaway of a unique & special Rick Roll T-Shirt. Leave us a review on iTunes for a chance to win it! Listen to the podcast for details.

Louie, Ryan and Al delve into the nuances of Depeche Mode's smash music video, "Enjoy The Silence."

Listen to Louie, Ryan & Al discuss the Lynchian plot of Milli Vanilli’s “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You.”

When podcasting bites hard. Al, Ryan & Louie answer the call and review the music video for Joy Division's post punk classic.

With this installment, Ryan Louie and Al discuss the already iconic video from Childish Gambino, "This is America." Don't catch us slippin' up!

Finally back from a month long hiatus, Ryan, Louie & Al bring you our review of A Lighter Shade of Brown's 1990 hit, "On A Sunday Afternoon." This song brought up meany interesting memories for your hosts, so sip on a cold bottle of brewski and join us.

Al, Ryan & Louie discuss their experiences with Kraftwerk, the most influential band of all time, by discussing the intricacies of the music video, "The Robots" which Ryan refuses to acknowledge as a music video. Louie also talks about his brush with fellow robot and replicant, Harrison Ford.

Al, Ryan & Louie delve into the hot mess that was the Jacksons' "Torture" video shoot. Did we throw it back? Tune in. Find out!

Louie Ryan & Al don their tuxedos as they bring you the inaugural Throwbies Award show. We discuss which covered music videos win the categories of Best Acting Performance by a Band, Best Acting Performance by a Solo Act, Best Artistic Achievement, Worst Artistic Achievement, Throwback of the Year and Keeper of the Year. Stay late for the after party!

In this installment, Al, Louie & Ryan discuss Rick Astley, this song, the phenomenon of Rick Rolling, and our fashion tastes.

Al & Louie drive a Dodge Charger back to 1996 as we discuss the merits of Smashing Pumpkins' iconic video, "1979."

Hello from the other side! Hang out with Al, Ryan & Louie as we talk about Adele's coat, flip phones, and how this smash hit depressed millions of people.

We've lost and now found episode 26! Al, Ryan & Louie delve into the Sri Lankan wilderness to deliver you this classic new wave video.

Al, Ryan and Louie sit down and be discussing Kendrick Lamar's smash hit, "HUMBLE." and the iconic video it came with. Did we dig it? Tune in. Find out.

Welcome to episode 24! Today we discuss "The Room" of music videos, Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)". We tried to be as gentle as possible with this video.

Due to Dolores O'Riordan's untimely death, Al and Louie are compelled to review their 1994 classic, "Zombie." Were they kind? Tune in. Find out!

After a 2+ year hiatus, we have returned with a vengeance with a glowing review of The Damned's "Alone Again Or."

Al & Louie discuss the bizarrity that is the music video of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy."

Al & Louie locks the target and discuss the Anton Corbijn helmed music video for Front 242's "Headhunter."

Al & Louie straps on their leather pants and top hats to review GnR's 90s cult classic, "November Rain."