Baltimora; a dirty dirty pleasure.
Baltimora is one of those bands that makes Italo Disco seem even more kitschy and cringe-inducing than normal. Horrific graphic design and videos which basically consist of shitting pixels into palm trees and putting dancing hands behind an awkward gangly white man. Such mentioned awkward gangly white man was actually a mere dancing frontman named Jimmy McShane and not the lead vocalist. Videos are so cleverly deceptive like that. I totally thought he was singing the tracks… But anyway, I’m sure you’ve heard “Tarzan Boy” quaking local shopping malls or blasting from Pride parade floats. It’s Baltimora’s lone, gigantor international hit. I could lie and say I hate to admit I like it, but I don’t. I love admitting I like it.
I’ve posted the “Tarzan Boy” mp3, but featured the “Jukebox Boy” video. I think I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw this Baltimora video. He floats on a fucking spinning blue record… walks around in an obviously fake pool and pretends hes speeding in a car with the wind in his hair. It’s insanely magical.
Doesn’t the pouch in his alladin pants look like a giant elephant ball sack?
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heh that video looks like it was done on an Amiga – was ’state of the art’ for about 5 minutes in 1985 so very likely. Very odd video.
“Jimmy McShane, the frontman of Baltimora, died on 29 March 1995, of complications from AIDS.”
Always sad and a surprise when I read stuff like that….:-( Even though I can’t really love Tarzan boy, it does annoy me.
I know, it is a sad surprise when you find music only to later find out the author/or members died from AIDS. Puts an element of reality to the twenty four hour party mood of italo disco/hi nrg.
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I must say, that this song is a gem. Its been used in tons of movies and i never knew what the song was, but that tarzan chant is EPIC and has been in my brain since i saw like …ninja turtles 3 when i was little
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