Martini Ranch / How Can The Labouring Man Find Time For Self Culture ? (The Official Video)

[@999lorleep]

to me, Bill Paxton will always be "that guy from Martini Ranch"

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

i agree

[@evelynsanchez7443]

Agree. ❤️

[@ExUSSailor]

As much as I dig this, he's always going to be Pvt. Hudson to me. "Game over, man! Game over!"

[@Kohntarkosz]

@@ExUSSailor For me, he's Chet from Weird Science. "Do you REALIZE it's SNOWING in my BEDROOM?!" Oh yeah, and he was the radio man in Pat Benatar's Shadows Of The Night video. Only actor to be killed by a Terminator, a Predator, a Xenomorph, AND Pat Benatar!

[@scribe_ineti]

Rest in peace, Bill Paxton. Thank you for 30+ years of great roles and one great Martini Ranch album.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

Paxton was indeed a true Renaissance man. I remember this song when KROQ put it in heavy rotation, and it wasn't until years later that I learned that Bill Paxton was behind it.

[@FatSynthDude]

This song is underrated. It's so anthemic.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Thanks FSD. I agree !!!

[@julieraelaws3222]

Bill Paxton fan here. I was just now old when I found out about this. And the 80's was my decade. How did I not know this..?

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

glad you found it !!

[@conradpoos2859]

I worked at MTV in the late 80's and early 90's and had access to all videos in broadcast quality. I made compilations on VHS which I'd play at parties. When this came on, the place would go wild, even though the song did not really get played on WDRE. It's that infectious. Also, love the German expressionist influences.

[@mserni]

No way! I just found out that Bill Paxton was in this band! Wow, he was multifaceted. RIP sir! ❤

[@jkorr]

I just picked up this on vinyl maxi - single at the Goodwill solely based on the cover art. Very happy that I did.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

thank you. You have great taste in art and music !

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

I LOVE YOU BILL

[@BradyGalloway]

You know I do!

[@andyinoregon]

... and now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!

[@ThatKa5p3r]

SCHPROKITS!!!

[@negascoot23]

I am seriously unable to stop talking about Martini Ranch in general, and this video in particular: Its as though Fritz Lang directed a DEVO video starring the cast of Weird Science... I can't tell if this exemplifies the New Wave era, or if it's satirizing it...which would just make it MORE quintessentially New Wave😊 ("Reach", by the way, is if Wall Of Voodoo wrote the soundtrack to Road Warrior while watching Three Amigos😉)

[@Plazman]

Talk about "lost hits of the 80s" ... they were great! Our Daughters Wedding and The Units are a couple overlooked bands from then.

[@richardgiron123]

RIP Bill Paxton...one of my favorite videos of all time.

[@nataliegrn17]

Rest in peace Bill Paxton. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.

[@jerejaco]

I'm embarrassed at how late to the party I am, but I just discovered Martini Ranch last night via Cindy Wilson's Wikipedia page. How I lived through the 80s without stumbling across this gem I'll never know, but I'm sure glad I found it. Great song, awesome video!

[@negascoot23]

I keep saying the same thing! 😂😂😂 It's like a video was tailored to my *exact* musical and aesthetic tastes, and released during my favorite era of popular music... And somehow I fucking MISSED it until 30 years later?😲 How does that happen? It's kinda my thing to know about stuff like this 😂 On one hand I am simply *delighted* this exists... ...on the other, I feel like I really dropped the ball😜😂

[@michaelz6555]

I heard it on KROQ in the 80s all the time, and I always turned the volume up when it aired. Without listening to the credits, I just assumed it was another great Devo song. If it's any consolation about being late to the party, I was today years old when I learned that Bill Paxton was one of the front men.

[@darrenottery]

Condolences Andrew. Hard for us fans. I can't imagine how you must feel. Your music was and is magical.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Thanks

[@dmoreno91]

RIP Bill Paxton. What a talented guy.

[@StockholmSam]

Raise your hand if you came here because Bill Paxton just died today. RIP.

[@rosencrantz4]

How did I miss this back in the day? This is great!

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

i don't know how you missed it. KROQ favorite... but glad you discovered it now.

[@mrpaul9703]

I have no other model but myself to play I'm a man from birth, you won't turn me away When I'm with you why do I feel this way? You drive me wild and we mix the dark passions How can the labouring man find time for self-culture? What shall we call our game? It needs a charming name "Industry and spirit" We'll go off if we get near it These people need time off I thought readers like to look Tearing pages from the book And we mix the dark passions How can the labouring man find time for self-culture? I think it's important that you spend some time Make it in your prime Something's come up, I hope I'm not too late You see I'm feeling like a hero But I'm not so great I've tried writing it down Walking it off, shouting it out What am I talking about? And we mix the dark passions How can the labouring man find time for self-culture? I think it's important that you spend some time Make it in your prime Oh goddess of the night, am I wrong or am I right? Is the rhythm of your heart tearing you apart? You can watch me as I slip You can watch me as I slide But the rhythm of my heart makes me want to hide How can the labouring man find time for self-culture?

[@WalkinginLA2023]

KROQ played this all the time in 87 / 88 - remember thinking "oh it's new Devo" great song!

[@JayBuff19]

tremendous, almost met Bill once when he visited us at Chanticleer Films, he was supposed to direct a project for us. at least I saw him standing in our lobby :)

[@rtbarnes4893]

Hi Andrew! Artie from Barnes & Barnes here. Always liked this song/video. Miss Bill and Bob C.. Hope you're well!..

[@utanan01]

I watched this again today to console myself after Bill Paxton's passing, but I found a pleasant surprise. I had forgotten that Joel Godard (Conan O'Brien's old announcer) has a cameo in this video (at 3:45 to 4:17).

[@sambsonwayfinder]

This all started for me when I was a kid watching Night Flight on TBS, beginning my taste for cultural outliers. I recall this 12" coming into my college radio station, where I played it every time I went on air. This was also the age of Night Music, the best music show to ever hit television. The lyrics to this song will never age. Thanks so much, I love this song and will always consider myself a Ranch Hand.

[@negascoot23]

I miss Night Flight SO much!🥰🥰🥰 That was my show...I knew absolutely no one else who was into it. It's on that very short list of shows that I used to almost think were made just for me: A feeling that was simultaneously lonely and very special💗

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Thank you. Glad you feel it !!

[@BobBX542]

Astoundingly 80's. Love this.

[@DadBodDrumming]

As a kid who grew up in the 1980s, how did i not hear of this until 2021? It is so 1980s tacky and its AMAZING!

[@negascoot23]

I keep asking myself the same question 😂 I was born in 1977. I was alive during the New Wave era, but very young--not really into music yet... it's like I was subconsciously absorbing it until I reached the right age. That turned out to be 12, when I discovered Post Modern: the heir to New Wave and precursor to Alternative. It was only natural that I began listening to the music that inspired the genre I liked...and it didn't hurt that the 90s sucked, thus lending a sense of nostalgia to the 80s. Point is, despite being alive when Martini Ranch were active, and developing a keen interest in their period and genre in my adolescence that has persisted for 3 decades... I completely missed them. And if it weren't for the fact that KZbin listed this video as a suggestion on a Barnes & Barnes vid (Bill Paxton was in several B&B videos, and Roky Schenck directed clips for both bands), I likely would have never heard of Martini Ranch. Makes me wonder what else is out there that I *should* know, but somehow don't 🤔

[@kayak1965]

Such a great album. Could not get enough of this song when it came out. and I'm proud to say I still have this album on vinyl!

[@RickNelsonMn]

"Hot Dog" is my favorite! It's on my best mix tape! I also play it quite often.

[@TheDejael]

Bill Paxton, Andrew Todd Rosenthal, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rocky Schenck, and Bill Myers on drums, had their big breakthrough with national airplay with Martini Ranch's cryptic Techno-electro-synth-pop hit tune "How Can The Laboring Man Find Time For Self-Culture?"with three members of DEVO performing here, released in July 1986, right at the same time Bill Paxton was co-starring as the wise-guy Marine Corporal Hudson in James Cameron's ALIENS (Fox, 1986).

[@tacomadc]

God rest Bill. This is a really great video, produced by DEVO and sounds like they may have written it too.

[@CinematicMaj]

Has an ongoing boingo vibe to it IMO

[@CinematicMaj]

Oingo Boingo***

[@briansmith1930]

Watching this video for the first time was like- "Bill Paxton was in a band?...Is that anthony michael hall?!?!....is that friggin Judge Reinhold?!?! Effin MICHAEL BIEHN!?!?!" Lol needless to say I loved this video and enjoyed the song.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

yes yes yes and yes !!

[@christopherharter]

And let us not forget Rick Rossovich, Slider from Top Gun!

[@denwad67]

proud to say i have this on vinyl 12" along with album xoxo

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

thanks. you have good taste in music !

[@ronholt828]

I had this on 12" too. I SOOOO believed in this song and their brilliant video!! It lives on forever.

[@danieldelphi]

I was watching twister the other night and remembered this 😂

[@reflectingsoul]

Love 80's & Bill Paxton.

[@negascoot23]

All I can say about this band, this video, and what lead me to find it here is this: I get a comforting sense of order and purpose to the universe when I find out that all my favorite creative people are either friends, collaborators, or both😊 It seems all the musicians, actors, filmmakers, and writers I TRULY love are no more than one, possibly two degrees of separation from each other... This makes me happy in a way I can't sufficiently express in words😍

[@tekkaman42]

Thanks for this Andrew, I hadn't heard these songs in years, but today I needed to hear you guys again.

[@joeryan8992]

Listened to Martini Ranch the past few days! LOVED this album! I remember I had the intro to the song "Hot Dog" (I can't talk right now, I gut the wife & the kid in the car with the poodle; I hate that dam dog!") on my answering machine for months!!! RIP Bill! Great memories Andrew!

[@tschak909]

Thank you, Andrew, Bill, and Rocky for this delightful bit of pure (and much needed) subversion. :)

[@How_are_ya_now_]

Such a great song. Have introduced more than a few to this. I adored Bill Paxton 😢❤ Amazing work Andrew

[@LeePresson]

I've always been a fan of the New Wave Expressionist movement!

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Thanks Lee Presson !

[@mikemeengs4124]

Yeah...reminds me of Devo's "Good Thing". I'm very surprised I never heard this before. Very!

[@negascoot23]

@@mikemeengs4124 Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh from DEVO collaborated on this song...the similarity isn't coincidental☺️

[@gibbyandrewcox9577]

wow...rip mr. paxton. What an honor it must have been to have worked with Casale, Mark, and Alan!

[@BryanPike]

Wow... just wow. How did I never know about this? Thanks soooo much.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

thanks !! I have new music u may like ANDY / ANDROGYNE & ANDY /TRANSFORMATION

[@caseyratcliff6691]

Loved the video so much, I just ran out an found a copy of the album on vinyl. Very cool.

[@BeersFrontiers]

Great song! I just discovered it thanks to Richard Blade.

[@MrEriccloy]

O jeez, always thought it was "Naked in your prime"....loved the song then and now!

[@davidcandland2356]

RIP Bill - you were a hoot!

[@neotropeusa]

Ah takes me back --- just came up in my iTunes jukebox and had to seek out the video :-) get the lead out!!!!!!

[@bthyb]

Love this song, can't get it out of my head.

[@sabbathhead]

What a talent that guy...

[@chadstingray5536]

I remember seeing this brilliant video, when it premiered on MTV … the next day I hunted down the 7” & 12” singles! I was not disappointed! The “Holy Cow” album was equally great, and definitely had me wanting more! But … alas … Thanks Andrew, Bill(R.I.P.), and Rocky! ( If they ever wanted someone to re-do The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari or Metropolis - you’ve got my vote!)

[@ajtis2520]

GAME OVER MAN!!!

[@emmar4637]

this is so great,and very retro bill paxton is a fab singer he should do an album i would buy it.

[@mikevaldez7684]

I like this song

[@Kohntarkosz]

I remember seeing a snippet of this video on the old Max Headroom show that ran on Cinemax back in the mid 80's, but I think this is the first time I've seen the full video.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

THANKS FOR WATCHING

[@Kohntarkosz]

@@andrewtoddrosenthal7297 Thanks for posting it so I could finally see the full video! Cool song btw. Are the Martini Ranch albums in print? Or at least available for download, e.g. on Bandcamp?

[@CinematicMaj]

Only 59 thousand views??? This is classic def got a lingo boo go vibe to it too

[@CinematicMaj]

Oingo Boingo

[@Feasco]

@@CinematicMaj Lingo Boo Go are good too, very underrated

[@nonsequitur4704]

I went looking for this, and loved that I found it! I seem to recall this was on the VHS for Weird Science, maybe it was on 120 Minutes on MTV? And then there was Chet, who became the poo emoji before there was a poo emoji! Game over man! Fish Heads! His passing affected me more than I would have ever guessed. RIP

[@DharmaMidget]

I love Bill Pullman.

[@BLarcos]

I have to make my own video for this, i love Martini Ranch :D

[@80sandmore]

The best 10 worded song title ever

[@JohnThelin]

We'll miss you, Bill.

[@NathanLWHughes]

Rest easy Bill.

[@nathanchalmers9857]

This songs amazing

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Thank you !

[@NianioNostimos]

So many other cool actors of the era in this video! Anthony Michael Hall. And Rick Rossovich, who was in Top Gun, Terminator, and Roxanne with Steve Martin.

[@trylonperisphere]

Did Guy Maddin see this? What a gem!

[@Kresnov]

I still have 45 of this.

[@conkaiserdor]

Before he was a mellow island songster, he was new wavy rocker! #coconutpetelivesforever

[@cyranthus]

RIP Bill!

[@agt462]

To me Bill Paxton will always be "Chet" from Weird Science

[@goblinb]

"How about a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray!?!"

[@charliellorente]

Bill kicks our asses forever.

[@richardjacobs2708]

I heard this song in 1986 during Hands Across America.

[@dragmio]

LOL, best chorus ever! :D

[@allutouch8082]

The intro is missing. Makes me sad. Butt. One of my fav bands of all time!

[@hackman55able]

There is also a Terminator connection. Bill Paxton with a punk on the pier with two other guys in the first Terminator. If you look at the muscle dude dancing as a statue and the hammer swinger at the end, this is the boyfriend who took on Arnold (Terminator) in the bedroom scene in the first movie. The guy from Fast Times at Ridgemont High is also in this as one of the construction workers.

[@eddiethepizzahero]

R.I.P Bill!

[@onemanschorus12]

Amazing video.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

thanks

[@onemanschorus12]

​@@andrewtoddrosenthal7297 Are you singing, or is it Bill Paxton?

[@mikereseigh]

never saw this before

[@jcsmith2]

RIP Bill

[@jzalvidea]

Rest In Peace Bill Paxton :-(

[@klschmidt]

[@blitzermccoy]

Was that an Anthony Michael Hall cameo?

[@Aster_Risk]

Wow. I believe it was. O_O

[@gmchilehead]

It was a clip from the movie Weird Science, which starred Hall and Bill Paxton.

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

yes

[@nitdiver5]

It gets a lot weirder than that. Look at the guys digging. You have Michael Biehn and Rick Rossivich which were both in Navy Seals with Bill Paxton.

[@Cyborganna]

nitdiver5 And The Terminator.

[@BedlamAndBones]

Bill Paxton - R.I.P.

[@C0rvu51nku8a3]

Is it Paxton singing this song or is it Rosenthal? Because if it's Paxton singing, he's got some Peter Murphy-esque vocals

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

It's Rosenthal

[@hackman55able]

Okay here it is Rick Rossovich (construction guy and model) the tough boyfriend from Terminator. Michael Biehn - Kyle Reese from Terminatory (construction guy) and yes Judge Reinhold who also stared with Bill P.

[@kidpax]

All three starred with "Wild Bill" in the movie The Lords of Discipline.

[@frostyhighway9011]

This is a great song, loved it, but why was everyone smoking?

[@MrConan72]

Great Songwriting Todd. The Break at 3:59 is genious, cause you think it´s over, but another chorus follows and pushes the song on top of all awesomeness! I´m also a songwriter, you could check my first release out at this channel! Best Regards from Germany. Hope your still making music!!

[@psheckman]

RIP Bill Paxton.

[@starbond6]

Hey Andrew what was your favorite Martini Ranch song to make?

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

New Deal

[@sambsonwayfinder]

Mr. Andrew Todd, if you don't mind my asking, it seems that many of the men in this video have been identified (Bill Paxton, Andrew Rosenthal, Judge Reinhold, Rick Rossovich, Michael Biehn, Anthony Michael Hall, Joel Godard) but I've only seen one women's name; Kathryn Bigelow. Could you tell us who the women in the video are and which parts they play? Thanks so much! ❤

[@skathan]

RIP Bill Paxton. :(

[@bobothehobo420]

The Talking Heads must have LOVED these guys trying to pull Byrne's shtick

[@negascoot23]

Byrne stole it from German Expressionism before Martini Ranch stole it from him 😜

[@KiddyRose]

Can't stop listening to this song since a week. I was born too late, I've never heard about Martini Ranch, I just browsed my fav' film's trivia on imdb, and I found this: www.imdb.com/title/tt0100232/trivia?item=tr0667382 First watch was a wow!-experience, it was great to see my favourite actors from the 80s and I like the music very much, too. =))) Thank you! (And sorry for my bad English.)

[@loonylinn8824]

can someone please upload bands/artists of “the new music 1-4 albums” by the beggars banquet records. Ty

[@toniigx8]

was that anthony michael hall?

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

it is we shot that video right after weird science

[@gregaskew7065]

@@andrewtoddrosenthal7297 Pretty sure that is Michael Biehn at 4:31 haha. I still have the original CD with the Wilson girls

[@nathanarizona9612]

parquet courts

[@therealsaintseiya]

Some Terminator cameos on there I see !

[@pedrodelgado6214]

Sounds like XTC.

[@halenbud]

I have no other model But myself to play I'm a man from birth You won't turn me away When I'm with you Why do I feel this way? You drive me wild And we mix the dark passions How can the labouring man find time for self-culture? How can the labouring man find time for self-culture?

[@TheRealNormanBates]

I bet money that Bil and his buddy got the idea for all of this from Danny Elfman (who did the soundtrack to WEIRD SCIENCE, which is no doubt where he probably met him). Notice Judge Reinhold and Anthony Michael Hall in the vid.

[@quizzabella]

Michael Biehn's in there too!

[@TheRealNormanBates]

quizzabella LOL.. do you know where he shows up (time code wise)?

[@quizzabella]

Monroville 4.30 - he's the guy with the blue vest - in the video "Reach" he's got half the cast of " Aliens" in it. Kind of funny!

[@BadBoy-hz3ui]

That would be impossible for them to get the idea from Weird Science. The band was formed in 1982. Weird Science was 1985. There are 3 members from the band Devo involved in this song. This makes more sense as it sounds more like a Devo song than it does an Oingo Boingo song.

[@One21Jiggawatts]

I can see how they might have been influenced by Elfman’s band Oingo Boingo.

[@luisllorens70]

Alan Meyers on drums?

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

Not on this one. Drum programming bye me and Rob

[@andrewtoddrosenthal7297]

yes