Since I’m a little tardy in getting to today’s Friday Flashback, I figured it was a perfect time to tout the magical wonder that is MTVMusic.com.

Having mentioned my crush on the site only in passing, here’s why I’m smitten: Nearly every video that might have only received a nanosecond of MTV airtime is now available for online viewing at your command. It’s not a perfect system, as occasionally you’ll think an artist or song should be there and isn’t. Any disappointment is only momentary, however, as you search again and uncover a long-lost gem.

Take, for instance, Andy Taylor’s “Take It Easy.” Andy, among the trio of unrelated Taylors in Duran Duran, decided to go solo following the band’s mid-’80s hiatus (he and John Taylor spent some of that time in supergroup The Power Station). Hooking up with Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and two members of Missing Persons, Taylor recorded three songs for the soundtrack to American Anthem, including the film’s theme, “Take It Easy.”

The rockin’ single, featuring a riff very much reminiscent of “Bang A Gong,” stuck its landing at #24 in August 1986:

To re-visit your crush on Mitch Gaylor in the future sans video, Andy Taylor’s “Take It Easy” is available via Amazon MP3. Like Gaylor, Taylor’s career never really caught fire, so what’s been keeping the guitarist busy all these years? Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran, his recently released autobiography, sheds some light on that and the truth about the “wild hedonism that dogged” his former band.

And for all the ink about MTVMusic.com, you might have noticed the “Take It Easy” video was delivered via YouTube. I couldn’t get the MTVMusic embed code for this clip to post properly—strike one for the newcomer (and more than a little frustrating for me). Still, if they can quickly fix such glitches, my money’s on MTVMusic to best YouTube, becoming the industry-sanctioned way to view and share videos old and new.