The History of "Dog Police" by Dog Police, from Basement Tape to Cult Classic | Music Video Time
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2022
- This episode of Music Video Time is centered around a peculiar music video that first raised eyebrows on MTV's "Basement Tapes" show that slowly gained a bizarre reputation over the years. Beginning as a silly side project, Dog Police would go from relative unknowns to securing a chance to having their own TV show. Watch on to know more about this one act that proved you can't keep a good dog down.
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So does this definitely mean we're never getting a One Hit Wonderland on Dog Police? lol.
@@benburke3015 It got a long mention in an episode. Wall of Voodoo I think.
Honestly the best part is that he does what you do, but so far he hasn't outed himself to be a gigantic soy boy (for lack of a better term)
Word of advice music video guy, avoid liberal women. you'll never recover
@@chiggermethod463 asinine comment
The Game Grumps mention was how I discovered Dog Police. Arin's bewildered "what the fuck are you talking about?" kills me.
This song just keeps on giving. Can't wait for Adam Sandler and Happy Madison to one day make the Dog Police/Paul Blart crossover we all deserve
Honestly I would've loved to have seen dog police as a tv show. Seeing dogs as cops would be adorable
I actually own the Dog Police album (go, me :) ), and it definitely sounds like a series of kitschy, jokey songs from a minor act - from, one might say, a side project for its band members. Like, there's literally a song called "Hamburgers", and it's about fast food drive-ins, and the actual jokes are pretty few and far-between, and it ends with a pun on "hamburger helper".
Born in 1970, one of my generational markers is that I saw the Star Wars Holiday Special the one time it aired. This privilege later extended to watching the first MTV Basement Tapes and dialing my toll free vote for Dog Police (NOT Trax dammit.) But I never connected it to my childhood seeing Spidey Super Stories on the Electric Company and reading the Spidey comic with the Thanoscopter.
Dog Police has it all....even a cocaine in the bathroom reference. Sniff Sniff. Absolute classic
Even from the music video, you can tell they weren't on board with "Dog Police" being the band's identity since half the time they're out of costume. So many acts become one-hit wonders because their first single is a weird novelty song that's impossible to compare to the rest of their work, but most of them don't get officially branded _as_ its title and subject matter. The closest runner-up I can think of is Living in a Box.
The research on this video is *excellent*, good job! I remember trying to find info on this band, and I came up almost completely empty
19:30 Why am I not surprised that Danny knows about Dog Police?
He does have a weird taste in music
Hahaha, UA-cam recommended this to me.... possibly because I have the music video in my "favorites".
I love the reaction shots of the band being confused/bemused/disgusted.
Good on you for covering it thoroughly.
all these years when people mistakenly thought Who Let the Dogs Out was referring to women as dogs, they were unwittingly remembering Dog Police. who knew?
Came from Todd's tweet, subbed because this is a very interesting series and I'm looking forward to more.
I would give this a like but it's at 66 likes right now and I just can't ruin it.
This was a great video. I've been aware of this song from early youtube days, and I've always wanted to know more about it, especially the clearly way-too-high-budget-for-what-it-is music video. Thanks for putting this together!
Fun fact:The Dog Police album actually got a deluxe edition in 2009(it's on Spotify)
Love this video. I send the links to it to two friends of mine who hate it.
“Disco Duck” was worth it just because “Dog Police” exists
I can't tell if you're intentionally taking these lyrics too literally or not... Either way, great video. The lyrics kinda bug me though, especially "I'm Butch." You see it as an uplifting image of the LGBTQ community in a very unkind time, but I hear it as them making fun of those types, the same way I can only hear the title track being about just being on a date with an ugly "dog" of a woman and fantasizing that some kind of authority would come, validate you, and take her away.
That's my opinion though. Maybe it was meant to be more absurd than that.
I will say when I found out about the song, around the time Dan brought it up on Game Grumps, I tried finding a high quality copy and learned - it's on streaming. I was able to buy the album in FLAC on Tidal's store front, and I'm pretty sure it's the 12 Track version, like the Toxic Toast release. They did change the cover though, it's more cartoony now, but you can see a hand holding that original picture of Dog Police from the original cover.
yes! it is time !!! dog police by dog police music video time !!!
Ari Gold yelling *_"fuck!"_* still makes me cackle every time.
this music video has "saw it on tv at 2am while unable to sleep" energy
edit: no cops at Pride only Dog Police????
I was stoked to finally get this album in my collection!
I just saw this in r/mealtimevideos and really great watch! Never heard the song before but it somehow sounded familiar, then it dawned on me that I heard game grumps talk about it, and lo and behold you show the clip :D
Thank you for letting me know your enjoyed the video. And where you found it. I like knowing where my videos end up.
This was one of those things that I recall seeing once back in the 80s that planted itself into my subconscious to sprout decades later wondering if it was a fever dream. Glad to know it wasn't. Thanks for finally answering questions about Dog Police. :)
Thank you for this. I've been curious about the origin and oddity of dog police since discovering the video a year or so ago
Dog Police, somebody knows who you are!
Woof woof woof woof
This song makes me wormy....
I remember seeing this on MTV. It stuck with me through the years since.
Awesome.
Excellent job! You're doing Dog's work!
Great editing man. Subscribed.
Excited for next videos!!
I read Dog Police as being about yknow,dog catching services
Love this video. Very informative.
Excellent video!
I watched this entire video and am now much better informed and no less confused by Dog Police. That takes real talent! You've earned a sub.
Sounds like they could've made some epic jingles for some local car dealerships.
This is really awesome. I was watching the Basement Tapes videos and Dog Police definitely got my attention! It was obvious they were skilled musicians so I got to looking them up.
It was down the rabbit hole from there LoL
Thanks for this, behind the scenes stories of the music business are fascinating
I watched almost every episode of "Basement Tapes" that aired until Martha got dumped in favor of the personality-free Carolyne Heldman (and half the episodes afterwards). I have no idea how Dog Police became the most popular act to come out of it. You'd think Extreme, with their #1 hit single; or Henry Lee Summer, with his Top 20 hits; or Chameleon, with Yanni; or Splash, with Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind); or hitmaker-songwriters-to-the-stars Rick Nowels and John Shanks (Line One), or Boney James (also Line One); or Jimmy McNichol; or What Is This, Toby Redd and Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries (all with Red Hot Chili Peppers connections) might be the most popular. But, no. It's Dog Police. Dog Frickin' Police. Chew on that.
Always enjoy seeing a Whirling Butt Cherries reference 👍
one of the best things to come from the 80s
Thank you so much for this video, good sir. It’s crazy how you don’t even have as many subscribers as my dead channel does. Here’s one more.
I had no idea....BUT I love it. Everything about it.
yo this video is REALLY good
Thank you very much
1987’s “Right on Track” by Breakfast Club is also up there. It’s got a trio of chicken lady backup singers.
shoutout to the real Wink, Wink Martindale
Reminds me alot of PPL MVR
Subbed.
Great video wish they got the names right
everybody always talks about those class traitors in the Paw Patrol but nobody ever says shit about the Dog Police
Maybe Daft Punk inspired on this on the music video of Da Funk, MAYBE 🤣
For The Algorithm!
Insane I hate the cynocephaly
If you're looking for a similar music video when it comes to general concept (I don't understand quite what you mean by similar,) one I'm thinking of is "Lone Digger" by Caravan Palace. Fair warning: it is absolutely NSFW.
12:40 Pauline McCartney
Moar please! Real weird ones!
:)
Maybe the band have said so themselves, but I don't think "I'm Butch" is that pro-transgender: it comes off very much as the kind of joke song someone would write about being "butch"/trans in the 80's, and the fact that it's not offensive is all due to how terrifically and enthusiastically the singer sells it. Like, she sounds like *she* believes in it, like *she's* all for the idea of being transgender, and that makes the difference :)
"Things made in the eighties are not perfectly applicable to modern situations" what a shocking revelation
Cocaine for days!
8:22 who cares? You say it as if it's some kind of important issue.