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Attention aging music nerds, Google Books has digitized all the SPIN magazines since 1985. Check it out, it’s a hoot to view the ads from the 80s and early 90s and reminisce about the excitement you felt when one of your bands like Husker Du, Circle Jerks, Hoodoo Gurus or Tommy Keene got some ink in this major music publication. While I give SPIN good marks for its cover selections and subject matter in the early days (and especially for being a good alternative to Rolling Stone), the mag did publish a few of doozies.

Back in the heyday of MTV some established rock acts made a genuine attempt to be innovative with their videos, trying to break the mold of chintzy special effects, testosterone-filled clichés and the perfunctory live performance. Striving to be completely different, some videos turned out, shall we say, just a bit gay. By “gay” of course, we mean every conceivable meaning of the word.