I haven't heard this song since 1986! My god, that's before most people were even born!! Guess I'm getting older now. I remember driving the back roads of Kentucky during a summer mission trip to go get fast food somewhere and listening to this on my cassette tape in my 1977 Mercury Bobcat. So many good songs on this album.
My friend got me to go to this video shoot at a Colorado Springs Highschool Amphitheater. I can't see us in the crowd but we're there dancing our butts off! The best part was when he was off stage looking at the video shoots and we got the band to play Wipeout for us! Good times!
I thought this video was a figment of my imagination. How glad I am that my imagination is not this terrifying haha. I remember having nightmares every time I watched this in my youth. I'm glad I found it again. The message is right on.
This video scared the hell out of me when I first saw it as a little kid. For the next few years, I would do whatever I could to keep my dad from watching Christian video shows out of fear that I would see it again. Over 30 years later, I still find it kind of unsettling.
Babysitter took me to see this dude when i was a kid. Probably the only way she could go to the show and see her bf. You're welcome, Donna. I still have the tape, too. I always talk about the R.E.M. show she took me to the year after but this show was just as fun.
I haven't heard this in decades, didn't know about the video. This is genius and funny not to mention right on spiritually. Who says Christians can't be relevant, creative and still be Biblically correct!!! 🙌🏿
You really Summed up Steve Taylor with your Weird Al reference...But at least Weird Al Rocks and is Cool and Hardcore... compared to this Christian, What David KILLING GIANTS refers to as VANILLA SPICE Music...it's not As Good As Vanilla Ice...because Vanilla Ice is not Some Born AGAIN...what DAVID KILLING GIANTS Speaks of Born Again, VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN music...just remember it's VANILLA SPICE, not quite VANILLA ICE, because Vanilla Ice is not VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN MUSIC.....I can only imagine the SLAM PIT at a VANILLA SPICE AS IT GETS...with WACKY Steve Taylor and his FROLICKING Mouse HARDCORE NERD SLAM PIT....sorry I will choose even Satanic bands over STEVE TAYLOR...OMG...just imagine the slampit...but hey...I disagree with the Weird Al comparison....Weird Al playing Polka on Accordian is actually HARDCORE and Cool....compared to What David Killing GIANTS Speaks of, when he Places Before THEE ENTIRE WORLD...that all Born Again Christian music is Actually All Called VANILLA SPICE... because it's not as good as VANILLA ICE, because Vanilla Ice...isn't Born Again,, oh wow where's the Slampit...So very not hardcore VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN MUSIC...it's the worst.. but. WEIRD AL....THEE HARDCORE KING of ALL SONG PARODIES is HARDCORE and SUPER COOL and definitely not VANILLA SPICE like STEVE TAYLOR...but if WEIRD AL and David Andrew Luker from David Killing GIANTS were somehow in a TURKISH PRISON.... Thee Beltloop would belong to David Killing GIANTS and the hit song VEET IT....compared to WEIRD AL and EAT it...a song about mere snack foods compared to VEET IT by DAVID KILLING GIANTS...a song about MANSCAPING..thee Beltloop would be mine
i know he is from California,and I have talked to him on the phone.Either he went to camp Christian in mid 70s or his doppelganger with the same name..i admired his diving board gait heterosexually.now I admire his righteous,untammed,original input to progressive Christian music.like a John the Baptist new wave candy guru
@1:40 hahaha that keyboard player They used to play this back in the 80's on TV.... Real Videos I think it was called and it stood out among the typical jesus music that was on Was he the Christian version of David Byrne? Seems like it to me watching this now
Yeah kinda. He was always more on the cutting edge musically, and didn't seem to take himself too seriously. Kind of David Byrne mixed with Weird Al if that makes sense.
Yes, I was just thinking of Real Videos too. I loved the host Jim Hodges or Hodgman...he was great. Matt Crouch hosted too but wasn't half as good as Jim in it.
Steve Taylor was a True Original Musical humorist taking aim at Christian & Cultural hypocrisy equally well. Look at this Meltdown Album 1984 & later "I Predict 1990" & "Squint" - fabulous quality work that was not as widely known as should be. Underappreciated as Steve & Some Band (as he called them) transcended easy categorization. But gems in every sense of the Alt Rock scene.
did the person who commented that that person got that this songs lyrics were about how you cant serve god and money delete the comment i cant find it now,only in my notifications, it seemed like a good comment but i dont know how you got that from these lyrics??
the song is about how all of the governmental and hollywood leaders and elite are really just people-- their wealth and status mean nothing when it comes to the final days before God.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
@@hectorcastellanos4033 aka my maternal third cousin (not that I'm even a fraction as proud of it as I was back in the '80s, long before she became a weirdo who thinks putting hot sauce on her children's tongues is a great idea)
This song is so HARDCORE VANILLA SPICE.....I'm listening and Doing a Mom, Bought my Doc Marten's and that makes me so PUNK, SLAM DANCE......I Love WHEN HARDCORE PUNK STEVE TAYLOR....PRANCES around and FROLICS like a MOUSE......it's so, Mom, Bought my Doc Marten's PUNK ROCK.... VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN PUNK HARDCORE ROCK
This, is, my, ALL TIME FAVORITE, CERTIFIED, THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK ANTHEM, of, ALL THRASHCORE, PUNKROCK, ANTHEMS.... STEVE TAYLOR is SO THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK....WE SALUTE YOU, MY THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK SOLDIER, LEGEND...THEE ONE and ONLY, STEVE, SO, THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK SOLDIER LEGEND, TAYLOR
@@bobbycrawley46 He actually released a trilogy of Christian albums during his late 70s - early 80s stint as a Christian artist: Slow Train Comin, Saved, and Shot of Love.
I used to keep lists of records I was going to buy around this time. I never got ‘round to buying this album. The band is over exaggerating their “act”. You don’t see Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet moving like that! If Steve Taylor would have showed the Beatles melting like that, it would have been a MAJOR lawsuit. By the way, I heard that Paul McCartney accepted the Lord, his sister in law, Linda’s sister prayed with him.
oh sure Madonna can get Oscar Winner, Christopher Walken to appear in her videos, this guy can get one of the chubby girls from the facts of life... Praise him!...
![Steve Taylor - I Predict 1990: The Video Album [1080p60; Lossless 16b/44.1khz Audio]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/-XRlzw-_K38/mqdefault.jpg)
I haven't heard this song since 1986! My god, that's before most people were even born!! Guess I'm getting older now. I remember driving the back roads of Kentucky during a summer mission trip to go get fast food somewhere and listening to this on my cassette tape in my 1977 Mercury Bobcat. So many good songs on this album.
This takes me right back to the 80's. Still good, nearly 40 years on. I love his clever lyrics.
Thank you for preserving this gem! 2024 anyone? 😅
HECK YEAH!
This was one of my favorite songs in high school. Steve's songs always had a clever message.
This reminds me of how much I loved Lisa Whelchel’s solo album, All Because of You. It was even nominated for a Grammy!
My friend got me to go to this video shoot at a Colorado Springs Highschool Amphitheater. I can't see us in the crowd but we're there dancing our butts off! The best part was when he was off stage looking at the video shoots and we got the band to play Wipeout for us! Good times!
Steve Taylor is so Punk rock...I remember always being in the Slam pit..Steve Taylor is just so HARDCORE punk
I thought this video was a figment of my imagination. How glad I am that my imagination is not this terrifying haha. I remember having nightmares every time I watched this in my youth. I'm glad I found it again. The message is right on.
This video scared the hell out of me when I first saw it as a little kid. For the next few years, I would do whatever I could to keep my dad from watching Christian video shows out of fear that I would see it again. Over 30 years later, I still find it kind of unsettling.
Babysitter took me to see this dude when i was a kid. Probably the only way she could go to the show and see her bf. You're welcome, Donna. I still have the tape, too. I always talk about the R.E.M. show she took me to the year after but this show was just as fun.
You’ve got a recording of one of his shows??
Lol.
Wowee! I played in a Christian band back then. Forgot about this album...
Is that Blair from Facts of Life?
I saw that. I think so. Another blast from the past.
Yes
Lisa Whelchel
I haven't heard this in decades, didn't know about the video. This is genius and funny not to mention right on spiritually. Who says Christians can't be relevant, creative and still be Biblically correct!!! 🙌🏿
Me.
I actually thought this was the NERDIEST SONG of the 80s..oh wow where's the NERD SLAMPIT
It took me till watching this JUST NOW to notice that the news reporter was Lisa Welchel...
give me more ... thnx
Wow. I haven't heard this since 1984-5. It's like Weird Al's first album.
You really Summed up Steve Taylor with your Weird Al reference...But at least Weird Al Rocks and is Cool and Hardcore... compared to this Christian, What David KILLING GIANTS refers to as VANILLA SPICE Music...it's not As Good As Vanilla Ice...because Vanilla Ice is not Some Born AGAIN...what DAVID KILLING GIANTS Speaks of Born Again, VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN music...just remember it's VANILLA SPICE, not quite VANILLA ICE, because Vanilla Ice is not VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN MUSIC.....I can only imagine the SLAM PIT at a VANILLA SPICE AS IT GETS...with WACKY Steve Taylor and his FROLICKING Mouse HARDCORE NERD SLAM PIT....sorry I will choose even Satanic bands over STEVE TAYLOR...OMG...just imagine the slampit...but hey...I disagree with the Weird Al comparison....Weird Al playing Polka on Accordian is actually HARDCORE and Cool....compared to What David Killing GIANTS Speaks of, when he Places Before THEE ENTIRE WORLD...that all Born Again Christian music is Actually All Called VANILLA SPICE... because it's not as good as VANILLA ICE, because Vanilla Ice...isn't Born Again,, oh wow where's the Slampit...So very not hardcore VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN MUSIC...it's the worst.. but. WEIRD AL....THEE HARDCORE KING of ALL SONG PARODIES is HARDCORE and SUPER COOL and definitely not VANILLA SPICE like STEVE TAYLOR...but if WEIRD AL and David Andrew Luker from David Killing GIANTS were somehow in a TURKISH PRISON.... Thee Beltloop would belong to David Killing GIANTS and the hit song VEET IT....compared to WEIRD AL and EAT it...a song about mere snack foods compared to VEET IT by DAVID KILLING GIANTS...a song about MANSCAPING..thee Beltloop would be mine
Steve Taylor & Weird Al Yankovic = cut from the same crazy cloth...mad musical jokers
lisa welch - always was happy that she was in this video -
Panic on wall street put your stock in candles!!!
What what the spoken line at the end? "A lot of bees ... .... for tbis?"
"A lot of bees gave their all for this."
@@RhubarbTheBear Oh wow. I think you are right. I pondered that one almost as long as Moses wandered the desert! Thank you!
@@megazazzy1106 Thanks! (Full disclosure: I owned this album and probably just read the lyrics in the liner notes)
i know he is from California,and I have talked to him on the phone.Either he went to camp Christian in mid 70s or his doppelganger with the same name..i admired his diving board gait heterosexually.now I admire his righteous,untammed,original input to progressive Christian music.like a John the Baptist new wave candy guru
This album came out in 1984 wore it out because it was so weird and strange I love playing it for my friends
@1:40 hahaha that keyboard player
They used to play this back in the 80's on TV.... Real Videos I think it was called and it stood out among the typical jesus music that was on
Was he the Christian version of David Byrne? Seems like it to me watching this now
Yeah kinda. He was always more on the cutting edge musically, and didn't seem to take himself too seriously. Kind of David Byrne mixed with Weird Al if that makes sense.
Yes, I was just thinking of Real Videos too. I loved the host Jim Hodges or Hodgman...he was great. Matt Crouch hosted too but wasn't half as good as Jim in it.
More like Christian version of David Bowie. Steve Taylor was quite weird in a Christian way
He challenged the norm in a Christian way.
@@cabbieforjc He was a bit more famous than whoever David Bowie is.
never heard of this guy or the song
Your point being?
Steve Taylor was a True Original Musical humorist taking aim at Christian & Cultural hypocrisy equally well.
Look at this Meltdown Album 1984 & later "I Predict 1990" & "Squint" - fabulous quality work that was not as widely known as should be.
Underappreciated as Steve & Some Band (as he called them) transcended easy categorization.
But gems in every sense of the Alt Rock scene.
I haven't seen a video so self consciously "new wave" since Missing Persons!
Love me some Missing Persons
Steve looks young in this video
This was in the 1980's, he WAS YOUNG in this video ... we all were. ;)
I wonder why? Can you think of a reason?
Can someone explain if these lyrics have any deep meaning to them or are they just for fun?
did the person who commented that that person got that this songs lyrics were about how you cant serve god and money delete the comment i cant find it now,only in my notifications, it seemed like a good comment but i dont know how you got that from these lyrics??
the song is about how all of the governmental and hollywood leaders and elite are really just people-- their wealth and status mean nothing when it comes to the final days before God.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
As Far as I can figure, he was the Weird Al of Christian rock.
4 keywords (it was going to be just 2 but I gave you a handicap bonus): "Deep state" "Judgment Day"
If Buckaroo Banzai was CCM!
JO:"Blair?!? I HATE it when you play COLUMBO!!!"
They actually had a 12 inch to this song back in 1984 it was mixed pretty good 👍
But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people. 2 Peter 3:7
Seems fitting for the covid crisis and also more tragic.
What about now?
Blare from Facts of life ?
Yes. Lisa Whelchel.
@@hectorcastellanos4033 aka my maternal third cousin (not that I'm even a fraction as proud of it as I was back in the '80s, long before she became a weirdo who thinks putting hot sauce on her children's tongues is a great idea)
This song is so HARDCORE VANILLA SPICE.....I'm listening and Doing a Mom, Bought my Doc Marten's and that makes me so PUNK, SLAM DANCE......I Love WHEN HARDCORE PUNK STEVE TAYLOR....PRANCES around and FROLICS like a MOUSE......it's so, Mom, Bought my Doc Marten's PUNK ROCK.... VANILLA SPICE CHRISTIAN PUNK HARDCORE ROCK
I havent heard this sense 1984.
This, is, my, ALL TIME FAVORITE, CERTIFIED, THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK ANTHEM, of, ALL THRASHCORE, PUNKROCK, ANTHEMS.... STEVE TAYLOR is SO THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK....WE SALUTE YOU, MY THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK SOLDIER, LEGEND...THEE ONE and ONLY, STEVE, SO, THRASHCORE, PUNK ROCK SOLDIER LEGEND, TAYLOR
Never understood the cheap shot against Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan went through a divorce. Then put out a Christian album. Then went back to being the same old Dylan.
@@bobbycrawley46 Bob Dylan became a Christian, then he was subjected to the hateful judgment of Christians, and that is what drove him away.
@@donmcc6573 kind of like the liberals did to Trump?!
@@bobbycrawley46 He actually released a trilogy of Christian albums during his late 70s - early 80s stint as a Christian artist: Slow Train Comin, Saved, and Shot of Love.
@@bobbycrawley46 Oh he pulled a Kanye
who is this "Mad-Atom Too-sews he sings of?"
so zef
Bob Dylan - Jew, Christian, Jew again...Is it gonna take a miracle to make up his mind?
I used to keep lists of records I was going to buy around this time. I never got ‘round to buying this album. The band is over exaggerating their “act”. You don’t see Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet moving like that! If Steve Taylor would have showed the Beatles melting like that, it would have been a MAJOR lawsuit. By the way, I heard that Paul McCartney accepted the Lord, his sister in law, Linda’s sister prayed with him.
That is a lot of weird and random stuff. I am just happy to know you are fit to judge others. That is something you don't see enough of these days.
all his songs sound the same, that early to mid 80's vaugely "new wave" would sound at home sandwiched between A flock of seagulls and Gary Numan.
Go back and listen to ALL of his albums…
Ah yes, Steve Taylor's song about literal man made climate change. 🤣
Even Jesus would cringe at this corny crap.
Oh my..............that's just horrible. And there are "fans" here upvoting this? Damn.
oh sure Madonna can get Oscar Winner, Christopher Walken to appear in her videos, this guy can get one of the chubby girls from the facts of life... Praise him!...
Chubby girls? Lisa Whelchel brought me to this video. She is still looking fine in 2019! ❤️
Lisa is pretty. I'm sure you're prettier then her?😒
Here is wisdom do you no steve Taylor did a rap song in 1982 called bad rap?
One thing I liked about Steve Taylor was his sense of humor