VIDEO THRWBCK: ABC - The Look Of Love (1982)
How glorious those early years must've been when a major would just hand a band a check and be like, "Just make a video, we really don't know how." I guess that probably only lasted for a handful of years (thinking '81-'83?), but it yielded incredibly ridiculous and gaudy clips like this one. The amount of stuff crammed in here borders on insane—plastic teeth, bugles, fake flying, spaghetti, nuns, ventriloquists, high-fiving Ricola dudes (!), etc.—but at least ABC managed to save enough money for matching suits and canes that would look great on Tom Wolfe at the Mad Hatter's thanksgiving. Yes, this is what unfocused excess looks like, since we've all forgotten. Thanks to Carter for initially showing me this piece of history.
