What Ever Happend to Pop-up Video?

The rains come again this weekend and there's something that will keep you busy inside. VH1 and MTV won't be showing you non-stop videos like they once did. MTV2 doesn't even seem to have that type of programming – but the internets is not killing the video star. If anything the flame has been reignited (we haven't watched so many videos for years). YouTube plays host to myriad videos; live and production. Everything from Gnarls Barkley's Top of the Pops performance to Boston's More than a Feeling and just about everything in between is out there if you look for it. There have been a couple compendiums made of the available music videos, though none seem to be quite as addictive as the "I Love the 80's Music" list you'll find here. 1,500 videos from the eighties – you'll be busting out your fluorescent headband and rocking big socks pulled up over the cuffs of your jeans in no time. Well, that or watching Shannon sing Let the Music Play, the USA for Africa collaboration of We Are the World, Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, Wilson Philips and…oh, let's leave it at that, it's hard to stop once you’ve started.

The report this morning that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry will be the guest stars of the Pops goes the Fourth concert on the Esplanade to celebrate the Fourth of July celebration here in Boston makes today the perfect day to watch a little vintage Aerosmith. The video below is part of the collection of 80's videos mentioned – Janie's got a gun. Bonus video for today comes after the jump (we told you we just can't stop) from another Boston based band to make it big, unlike Aerosmith these guys completely fizzled.