Oddity Archive: Episode 126 - Video Magazines (or, Oddity Archive: Issue

[@MrGingin82]

awesome archive as always, the sad and funny thing about the TeenVid portion was that I recognized almost everyone in that segment, never would I think to see Fergie and Vanilla Ice in a video together.

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

Kinda surprised there were no skateboarding videos here. That's what I usually think of when I think "video magazine." Still, good episode. I totally forgot about Metal Head!

[@robmclean4352]

14:37 Two defunct sports teams!

[@JayDee284]

Sad too think that there was a time when P.E.T.A. was taken seriously.

[@MrWolfSnack]

In the early days, they had good causes and their morals were justified. But eventually when they ran out of causes, and they should have folded up and called it quits, they decided to invent more problems to get richer.

[@newstarcadefan]

Yes like, attacking Super Mario and anime cat girls. Yes, on the anime cat girls (who are fictional characters) calling it animal rape...

[@-divinetragedy]

newstarcadefan no, i need my catgirl hentai to fill in the void in my life

[@superorangecat6937]

People Eating Tasty Animals

[@JayDee284]

MrWolfSnack: the same thing has happen too Feminism in the last 10 years

[@superorangecat6937]

Minnotte/Headroom 2020

[@WinterSteele]

A video that features both Bon Jovi and Gwar...wow, just wow.

[@Dannypuck]

Miss you, Seattle Super Sonics. Miss you, every day.

[@The_Davo_Domain]

As a 2000s kid I never grew up with video magazines and had little experience with VHS until I recently got into AV and archiving. I never learned about video magazines until I found a 2nd gen copy of of an Australian video magazine called Metal Warriors from the late 90s

[@5roundsrapid263]

I remember seeing those Playboy videos on Beta in the first video store in town. Yes, I'm old.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I had that metal head video cassette and wow memories flashback it also had blaze bayley of wolfsbane who in turn joins iron maiden. Bobby blotzer still with RATT at the time. and playing golf and talking about Connie Chung and her bees. yep Prue golden cheese.

[@BobbyLovesYou-u6q]

"Two nipples and a wee-wee." Great Dudley quote, or greatest Dudley quote?

[@ChuckD79]

Incidentally, the male commentator in the Playmate Playoff segment is none other than veteran game show host Chuck Woolery, who was clearly looking for work in the 1982-84 time period between his departure from Wheel of Fortune and the premiere of Scrabble.

[@HappySnoutHour]

30:39 I didn't know Peter Tomarken narrated for Playboy. I hope there wasn't a Whammies after dark.

[@IllPropaganda]

Fresh intro! I live 30 minutes from Lancaster in California and thankfully have never about any other Easyriders events in the vicinity. Like this episode. Well done!

[@ViewpointProd]

The out of context anime footage is from M.D GEIHST.

[@Footjones]

Long live Gwar! From my hometown!!

[@TimelordR]

Peter Kier Death to Bieber! LONG LIVE GWAR!!!👹

[@Epicbingewatcher]

He should do a review on late 80s/early 90s straight to vhs kids programs (Donut Repair Club, Barney and the Backyard Gang, You and Kazoo etc.)

[@TheApoohneicie]

As a kid I attended a biker rally where the ladies were trying to bite off a hotdog from the back of a bike. It took a few years to understand why everyone thought it was funny the dipped it in mayonnaise first. Actually I was a bit too young to get the point at all.😆

[@imrustyokay]

5:30 Ah yes the fast biker speed of: walking pace.

[@Losaru]

Didn't even know video mags were a thing. You always know where to find the oddest of things, Ben.

[@TiggiTheWillful]

I had 3 metal head tapes. Awesome to see pretty boy floyd at the end there. I'm from the uk and here, 'hair metal' wasn't a thing. Instead we called it Glam and it's fans were called 'Glammies' I still consider myself a glammy and still have many glammy friends. I still own 2 metal hammer video mags. Containing interviews with literally ALL my fave bands. From The Quireboys, the afore mentioned Pretty Boy Floyd, Doro Pesch, White Lion, Motley Crue, Yngwie Malmsteen and Brett Michaels of Poison. I suppose I'm trying to say, not all these mags are bad... some of them are real treasures to some of us metal kids!

[@5roundsrapid263]

UserLMH Glam got big in the UK in the early '70s. It didn't catch on in the US until the mid-80s. Even then, it wasn't called glam here. It was just "metal". I think "hair" was added later as an insult.

[@TiggiTheWillful]

@@5roundsrapid263 I realise I’m answering this 5 years after the fact (I was UserLMH 5 years ago) but I don’t know why I didn’t reply then … Glam Metal and the Glam of the 70’s aren’t the same thing. So I should say it’s glam metal not just glam. I was a huge Marc Bolan fan so I know the difference, thanks though.

[@MrJohndoakes]

It was a goofy format, but they were putting ANYTHING on video in the glory days of VHS/laserdisc/Beta, so why not video magazines? It should be said that there were computer magazines which were either on floppies or had a disk attached to the magazine.

[@soonerterp]

In the US we had one called Blender. I dug one out about 2 years ago while I was going thru some crap and popped it into my laptop ... it doesn't work. It was a full on CD-ROM magazine that used Quicktime and Shockwave or whatever (this was 1996-1997 or so) and had interviews, and games, and other stuff. Fairly cool actually. I was going to send it to Ben but since I couldn't get it to work like it used to, I didn't see the point.

[@tonstad39]

MrJohndoakes I have an issue of PlayStation underground, an interactive magazine that came on PlayStation discs and had demos of (then) new games.

[@Hogdriva]

tonstad39 I have a cd from a PC magazine i forget which from like 2007 lol

[@Hogdriva]

found it i.imgur.com/oAcIPgP.jpg

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

When I was a kid back in the 80s, Scholastic Corp. (the K-12 educational book publisher) had a computer-based magazine on floppy for Apple II machines called "Microzine", aimed towards the pre-teen set. It had all kinds of fun stuff, like interactive articles and "choose your own adventure" stories, games to play, and other things. Both my elementary school and my local public library then had issues of Microzine that I'd peruse through.

[@alexkuhn5078]

the mustard wrench.... THE MUSTARD WRENCH OMG WHYYYYY #mustardwrench

[@Korgi_Polymer]

14:25 J Rocks formative years.

[@djindustrialcomplex]

Thanks, I loved this

[@SeanDamonGreene]

I've got several "Metal Edge" "video magazine" VHS tapes I found in the discount. clearance section of some video/record store back in the early 90s. They are about what you'd expect, although one of them does have footage of Dave Mustaine mentioning an experience he once had in which an industry-type asked him to perform fellatio on him to gain some sort of advantage in the business.

[@neilforbes416]

Get up to date here! BMG had a brief flirtation with Sony but the two companies have gone their separate ways again. BMG, who gobbled up RCA and Arista(who started as the Bell/Amy/Mala label group before Screen Gems bought them out) and added them to the established BMG(Bertelsmann Musikgruppe GmbH) labels, Hansa Musik and Ariola Eurodisc(I spelt some of those in the original German spelling) got very briefly cosy with Sony who gobbled up the CBS labels of Epic, Portrait and (USA) Columbia but the relationship didn't last very long.

[@basedhalcyon]

That intro music is amazing.

[@danmount9462]

Let's all watch Archive in a Funky Bunch.

[@morelenmir]

The MegaDeth cover was for an equally forgotten Wes Craven flic--most notable because Mitch-AD Walter Skinner-Pileggi was the bad guy...

[@Panthersoup]

I actually yelled "NO" out loud when I saw PETA written onscreen

[@Damaniel3]

Having lived during the time that Teenvid came out, as a teen, I can safely say that 1991 was a mistake.

[@JL-sm6cg]

First off, the antics of the people in the Easyrider video fully explains why the 2020 Sturgis rally went on as if nothing was wrong in the world. Secondly, I want to see the one playmate posing in all those clothes again, but UNCENSORED! Gotta find that somewhere! :-P

[@gunkyzip]

No lie, I just bought a VHS of Metal Head off a certain auction site for $3 based on this. Wanna see how that Lita Ford bit turns out.

[@Betapvnk]

7:24 is that Michael Ian Black?

[@Stephie2007]

There's something off about that Cindy Simon 🤔

[@svinjamaria]

10:57 ...was that Eddie Vedder?

[@Duraffinity]

I have to admit I got a little teary-eyed during the Dudley Moore clip. I wonder if the whole interview cam be found online? As for the teen magazine stuff... I was 13 around that same time, right in their demographic, and I didn't recognize at least 2/3rds of the "celebs" they highlighted! And damn, that whole thing looked cringe worthy!

[@iaincowell9747]

8:43 yes, it does. I checked.

[@artistwithouttalent]

Oh man, when you first mentioned Megadeth doing a stiff Alice Cooper cover, I knew _exactly_ where that was going. Back in the _earrrly_ days of KZbin pre-mass commercialization, back when the folks with auditory processing issues didn't have Shazam to help them identify songs and you were at the whim of a few hundred thousand people's tastes, that was the _only_ version of No More Mr. Nice Guy on here. The first video with Alice's version I found was on a Halo 3 machinima that inexplicably included some weird comedy sketch PSAs from (presumably) the person who made the video, who had the voice and sense of humor of a 14-year old. Ah, early KZbin was weird.

[@nicholastosoni707]

Was Trent Dean the spokesman for Joker Brand cosmetics or something? ('Cause he smiled a lot, you know.)

[@patrickgrogan4382]

10:56 Dabs before they were called dabs

[@firewalker1372]

Traces of cocaine can be found on those playboy video magazines 😂. I’d imagine there where pounds and pounds of disco dancing powder floating around the mansion. Especially during this time.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

The best potential for a video magazine was one about video itself, and that happened with OverView Magazine in 1987 produced by Michael Nesmith. I have most of the first and only issue uploaded here, I would've subscribed to it if it had gone on. There were also several attempts at magazines on DVD, mainly "Inside DVD" which you could get for free if you could actually get your address onto their glitchy website (I missed out on the first 2 issues because of that but got the rest of them.) Their discs were pretty bad technically as well. Then there was "DVD Preview With Leonard Maltin" which lasted only one issue, though it included info on how to subscribe and you can still find comments online from people who paid for that only to get absolutely nothing from it!

[@kronosalexisramenfilms]

There is some serious "Everything Is Terrible" shit goin' on

[@plushifoxed]

oddity archive...after dark *COUGH*

[@XaneMyers]

0:24 Hold on, the "technical difficulties" picture was a *video?* Which Oddity Archive episode has this in it? I'd like to see more of this.

[@OddityArchive]

It's not in any episode. It was a gag shot I was trying to do just after the Archive got dropped from blip.tv (October, 2013). I didn't have a means of taking a delayed picture, so I just started the camcorder, stepped in front of it and posed. Then I just took a freeze frame out of that footage for the TD slide.

[@kodiiayyeee256]

Boy that guy at 5:50 couldn't have anymore charisma if he tried!!

[@RadioFreeCedarCity]

It's tough to look like a hard dude when you're wearing a Notre Dame hat

[@neilforbes416]

Oh how glad I am that none of those "video magazines"(or at least only a couple) made to Australia. As for Tiger Beat(teen rag from early 1970s). I saw one of those issues and it's a wonder I didn't throw up after reading the utter garbage written in them. Back in the years 1966 to 1975, Australia had a Pop Music newspaper called "Go-Set" which treated the subject of its coverage with more respect and sincerity. Go-Set was a serious attempt, and successful for the 9 years of its existence, to chronicle Rock, Pop and R. & B. music in Australia and beyond our shores. It's probably much the better that Go-Set did not survive to the Video era, because some American geek would try to produce a US-style format which would've totally RUINED Go-Set's reputation and hastened its demise.

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

0:51 where in THE FUCK did this video come from?

[@OddityArchive]

Playboy Vol. 2. I believe.

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

@@OddityArchiveO-M-G It’s Bennie Boy! Love the show man! It’s Gold, pure gold! I always thought I was the only person that had an interest in weird stuff from back in the day but then I found this channel! Actually, “weird stuff from back in the day” describes the show perfectly. Thanks buddy for all your hard work. You give us all a place to call home.

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

Your heart ❤️ made my day Bennie-Boy

[@newjigsaw]

there so many future memes here

[@pearofsalamanca]

There's a meme here already. It involves Mark Wahlberg. Look closer.

[@GrizzlyDipper614]

When he said Oddly Archive After Dark, I thought it would be about "Electric Blue".

[@askhowiknow5527]

Very excccccciting to take a look at the HERitage...

[@luisreyes1963]

Can you imagine the poor sap who stumbles upon these "video magazines" in a time capsule 50 years from now? Oh, the shame. 😞

[@imrustyokay]

14:02 I cannot believe that's Mark Wahlberg. Like, the movie Mark Wahlberg, not the game show host.

[@jmeekselectric]

Mark Wahlberg was the only one who made it out of this with an ounce of dignity.

[@BirdKingJay]

Eh Donnie Wahlberg did too

[@SNARC15]

And then he did The Happening...

[@jameslaidler4259]

SNARCast Productions What? No!

[@brandonivy8523]

28:25 Tonight, on Unsolved Mysteries

[@Brillemeister]

I should've seen Vanilla Ice coming

[@jessecoffey4737]

I can't speak for most of the people (apart from New Kids on the Block, Vanilla Ice and Debbie Gibson) on the TeenVid tape, but I knew Mark Wahlberg (the "Marky Mark" on the tape) went on to major superstardom in Hollywood and actually knew who Hi-Five were before this episode; that vocal group was profiled on TV One's fascinating Black music biography series _Unsung,_ from memory. The _Metal Head_ tape sounds like it was prepared and edited at rush hour during a traffic jam; the edits made within are schizophrenia unleashed. And as far as that _Easyriders_ tape, I don't think it's much of a magazine at all. It's shows us a bunch of montages of people riding around in motorcycles and motor bikes, accompanied by a tune sung by a nasally-voiced imitator of the Disney character Goofy, but is there anything else it does? And those _Playboy_ video magazines kind of speak for themselves, don't they?

[@ZXRulezzz]

- Are we not men? - We are oink oink! *Mark Mothersbaugh dancing the poot* In the back of my head I kinda half expected the footage ending with EVERYTHINGISTERRIBLE outro :P On the other note, is there a weird cutoff OSD text in the top left corner of playboy footage or am I seeing things?

[@DanZero77]

Was the Oink Oink Moo Moo video REALLY a thing or something just created for that one tape?

[@JMein13074]

I'm surprised you have the Playboy Video Magazine in every format BUT CED. Any chance of a follow-up if you find one?

[@dangerouslytalented]

NKOTB? ooo two of them still have careers...

[@robsimp1436]

That Hair Metal video was pretty much unwatchable. So much fake ass scripted behind the scenes type shots. Those bands were so fake they almost stopped being people.

[@robsimp1436]

Niklas Theelder perhaps I should have said all of the people in the video, I just was suffering through the hair metal before I left the comment

[@mandellio420]

Who's the same 3-4 people your talking about?

[@GrizzlyDipper614]

25:33 Hell Yeah! Beta was the best!

[@mulletboater]

"jaw inspiring"

[@vicariousgamer2871]

This is just freaking bizarre ! AND so Damn difficult to watch... Umm... Douche chills anyone ?

[@tag4650]

Did someone mention *_GOLF?_*

[@Bucky749]

I. Can see why video magazines have gone the way of the dodo.

[@dankmemes9594]

I just can't watch 90's video without wanting to throw up because the camera is shaking around two much (I also don't speak 90's English)

[@monwoo10]

Dank Memes it’s like people in the 90’s just discovered video editing and decided to use ALL of the settings and angles

[@GeekBlogTV]

Hey, OddityArchive, I love your channel. It would be really cool if we could collab on something

[@zerocooler7]

Damn, after watching those I can see why Video Magazines didn't last at all.

[@theh0r5e90]

GWAR!

[@ViewpointProd]

wow, a pony icon in 2017, thought you fuckers ied out years ago.

[@DanicaPaulie]

14:06 Full Dirk Diggler

[@monwoo10]

The 90’s was basically the 80’s neon colored vomit

[@leejtam0914]

i am so glad i was too young for this haha

[@MaxW-er1hm]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

[@mightyfilm]

Too bad this was a UK only release, but I think you might have had fun with something called "Flash no 1." A terrible animation themed video magazine. www.anime-games.co.uk/VHS/anime/flash1.php

[@otaking3582]

This show really needs more anime

[@jeenkzk5919]

I'm forty and still feel the need to hide my nudy mags....if I needed them, right internet?

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

11:56: I think we just found Shailene Woodley's mom...

[@erichudson2195]

Mahky Mahk.

[@erichudson2195]

..wait, was that the B52s?

[@aaronwalters6374]

5:02Nothing says bikers than music that sounds like it came from a Sega Genesis game

[@zeldajunkielol2]

23:06 Is that a young Alex Jones I see? :^)

[@rkn3045]

you seriously haven't heard of chrissie hynde and the pretenders? that ain't right

[@francishudgick9392]

Hair Metal rocks!!! 🤘🏻

[@knd1379]

Tony Martin era Black Sabbath is massively underrated.

[@TheWoundedFoot]

I know people are usually divided on their opinions of lesser Sabbath, but you're smoking crack.

[@knd1379]

Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, and Tyr are pretty solid Sabbath albums. Not only that, but Tony Martin was pretty much the only singer that could do justice to Dio era Sabbath songs besides the late Ray Gillen.

[@SNARC15]

Wait, didn't Trent Dean go on a killing spree a few years ago? Oh wait, that was Elliot Rodger.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

Those office dudes rating the women's bodies are pathetic.

[@vonithipathachai8449]

I'm not gonna lie... those Metal Head clips made me feel a little embarrassed to be a rock 'n' roll lover.

[@dorourke105]

*looking everywhere for internet memers doing that X amount of years on an old video bit* Okay really quiet so no one will hear me but, where can I find the uncensored version of that playboy clip?

[@OddityArchive]

eBay. :D

[@WAQWBrentwood]

Watching the early 90s Environmentalist​s while cooking up some dead cow over smoky burning charcoal!!!!👍😁

[@sawbonesquad4876]

So that TeenVid thing is a documentary of wannabe's,poor man's celebs and second bananas. Sounds like my life tbh

[@Clay3613]

Black Sabbath was having off years too, Dio or Ozzy...the albums without them sucked.

[@soundminedd]

Dark❤❤❤

[@spybomber6499]

Jesus Christ! When you start drooling over the media format instead of the fact it's a Playboy you really know you went down the wrong track of life.

[@MrWolfSnack]

Or you are asexual.

[@chrysanth.5700]

MrWolfSnack Or you just don't watch videos for that sort of thing in the first place. A myriad of other explanations here.

[@plushifoxed]

dogg you can like hot women and not be into stuff like playboy that shits like 1000% unrealistic and honestly pretty gross to watch so can you really blame him

[@TheMediaHoarder]

I saw a bunch of 80s Playboys at a flea market recently, and the first thing I looked for was video equipment ads!

[@rwdplz1]

I figured it was because I'm old. "Mmm laserdisc, **drool**"

[@johnsmithson]

Oddity Archive....After Dark Mah ha ha ha! >:^)

[@kelleysmith6146]

Ok I just have to say the FBI warning not to duplicate an Easyriders video well considering most of the bikers depicted are probably on an FBI watchlist well that's just a priceless oxymoron. And for the opening act I think the term "Wench vs Wrench" oddly applies. Bravo Ben, truly after dark (or after a nickle in the joint) material. 😂

[@pepper669]

early YT

[@Anarchist86ed]

The fuck, Mark Wahlberg?

[@tunainoil]

You weren't aware he was a musician back in the day?