YouTube Tuesday: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN.....

Besides Journey's "Separate Ways" is there a song, video and band that you'd put in the music time capsule as the entry for 80's hair band more fitting than The Final Countdown by Europe? I didn't think so. Here's what The Final Countdown has got in this awesomely, awesome video:

• BIG hair
• BIG outfits
• Androgynous lead singer
• The "goofy" band member, in this case the drummer with his oh-so-silly running shorts and bandanna
• Synthesizers
• Makeup
• High school A/V Club quality video effects
• Empowering lyrics and chord progressions
• Pyrotechnics
• 50+ piece drum kit
• Extremely confusing "story" to the video
• Gratuitous live concert footage
• Aerial band shots on the roof, taken from a helicopter
• Groupies
• EPIC guitar solo, with accompanying "lead guitar face"
• Band members holding gold albums for the press

If you find a better entry for the 80's hair band video to put in the time capsule, bring it...until then, it's The Final Countdown...