The Music Video Thread

[WhiteChocolate]

and-a onnnnne more, then i'll call it "the night"...

not a top-40 vid, but a nice movie music vid... personally i'd love to see more bits from movies! musicals with some crazy musical numbers...

p.s. trace b. from mst3k is supposed to be guest-ing on svenghoolie tonight!

p.p.s. - oh fiddle! that "URGH!" trailer - =ANOTHER= excellent memory-dredge! never seen it, but remember the box up high on the video shelves when i was a kid - was one of those "out of reach" vids lol! and obviously, if it had the plasmatics in it... that being the case, i GOTTA see it!!

 

[Johni3w6]

Also enjoy that the 80's gave us,

 

[Extork]

oiks, don't get me started on the eighties! ;0 "art of noise" is a favorite, but if you get any of them, i highly recommend "in no sense nonsense" first - really polished and doesn't age as much as their other stuff (although one has to sort of ignore their "dragnet" movie theme included on the album)! but along with "close to the edit" you already showed above, they made some of the ginchiest eighties vids... hafta include the max headroom viddy of theirs...

Dude, that was so messed up that I had to send it to all of my friends. All 2 of them. I watched that and thought I was high, and was like what the actual **** is happening. Gosh the 80s were ****ed up.

Not to mention the mouth that's saying paranormia resembles a shlong going in circles.

 

[Extork]

Lol. Have we sufficiently covered 1986 yet?

 

[WhiteChocolate]

hehe! max headroom -was- disturbing, intentionally so... but if you thought -that- was disturbing?????

check -this- out... a genuine live pirate-TV incident with someone impersonating max headroom.... (sorry, not a genuine music vid, but just had to add it

 

[WhiteChocolate]

ok, if you need a good way to "kill off" the eighties here, then try billy joel's "second wind!" it's -TERRRRRRIBLE-... but the "plus" is that it features MYTHBUSTER'S ADAM SAVAGE!! yes, back when he was a wee lad - well a teenaged geek-in-the-makin' - he was got a role as the "drowning kid" in this vid. check it out -once- ... then PROMPTLY FORGET ABOUT IT FOREVER!! cuz the song is soooo horrible, and so is the video... (yes i guess that's him also graveside, as the horribly ham-boned "it's a wonderful life" plot of the viddy plays out)...

 

[WhiteChocolate]

Dude, that was so messed up that I had to send it to all of my friends. All 2 of them. I watched that and thought I was high, and was like what the actual **** is happening. Gosh the 80s were ****ed up.

;0 i imagine they have some of this covered on wikipedia, but max headroom was actually an actor (matt frewer of many, many other roles you might know) made up a bit, put in some almost-albino-blue contact lenses, put into a plastic tux-top and a sweet rolling office chair, and cammed in front of blue- or green-screen that was ran usually live through, i believe, a "fairlight" video processor box (they made one years before the "video toaster" came along - they were first making music-synth kb's/boxes that artists like "art of noise" up-thread used, also thomas dolby i believe). we used an old fairlight viddybox in an arts class back on campus; was fun to play with! i admit, even today, the way they used it with max was very odd; played with the "uncanny valley" from the other direction - interesting example of that! (at the time, you couldn't make computers make human beings realistically - so why not use computer-boxes to make humans look computerized?? just a fantastically logical way to achieve a fantastically disturbed effect...)

so now if video-game humans could look and act as disturbed as max did then, maybe they could make them look more real as a consequence...

Not to mention the mouth that's saying paranormia resembles a shlong going in circles.

lol, -decades- before "the fleshlight!" lol, well, hindsight is 20/20...

 

[WhiteChocolate]

lol johni! easy hits for "weak" era ministry... gotta give 'em credit, they still hit hard before the decade was thru!

 

[Extork]

The messed up thing is, there are anamotronic robots nowadays that are more realistic than max headroom. And he was human! What a world we live in. It was on the history channel or some shiz

 

[invitro]

Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain (1986, #9)

Here's some R&B from fall 1986. This one starts out very cool/smooth. Then Oran starts the talking bit and tells you why you're like cornflakes. It gets pretty intense, especially for a big hit. This minor classic hit #9 in the US and #4 in the UK.

 

[Extork]

You're dismissed! Lol! With the hand out. Well here's another. Hate to be too mainstream, but it is what it is

Don't listen to that! He's so out of tune it makes my skin crawl. (Think think think BEFORE I post) yes

 

[invitro]

Hate to be too mainstream, but it is what it is

I bet you didn't know this: From 1992 on, Bon Jovi was MUCH more successful in the UK than in the US. I count a whopping 29 singles released in 1992 or later that made the US or UK Top 40. All but two of those charted higher in the UK! An amazing 17 of those made the UK Top 10; only 2 made the US Top 10.

This shocks me because I thought the main view of Bon Jovi was as the quintessential US schlock band. Nope. They're the quintessential UK schlock band. (Or is that Wet Wet Wet?) This also confirms what I've always suspected: the UK is merely a county of New Jersey.

(Of course, in the 1980's, they were much more succesful in the US, with four #1's. Only Livin' on a Prayer was a big hit in the UK, reaching #4.)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Jovi_discography#Singles

 

[invitro]

Public Image Ltd. - "Rise" (1986, did not chart)

Here's a January 1986 song from the great John Lydon. I can't decide whether it's decent or crap. Weird wikitrivia: Steve Vai plays the guitar solo.

It hit #11 in the UK, but did not make the US Hot 100 at all.

 

[invitro]

Device - "Hanging on a Heart Attack" (August 1986, #35)

One more 1986 classic for tonight. This one is a super-forgotten gem. It hit #35 in August 1986 in the US (it wasn't a single in the UK), and was Device's only Top 40 hit. It's cheezy as hell, and the video is about as cheezy as the 1980's gets (though it seems more like a 1987 video, proving that Device was highly influential). It's still an awesome Top 40 song. It makes me think of riding my bike around the neighborhood to trade baseball cards, in 100-degree heat.

I have always paired, or doubled, this song with another one-hit wonder song out at the same time: "The Captain of Her Heart" by Double (pronounced doo-BLAY).

Non-trivia: the bassist / background vocalist is Holly Knight, who wrote dozens of 1980's hits, including the classic "Love Touch" by Rod Stewart, who I believe has a fan following on this forum.

 

[Johni3w6]

A great album from 1986.... sorry it's audio only.

 

[Johni3w6]

lol johni! easy hits for "weak" era ministry... gotta give 'em credit, they still hit hard before the decade was thru!


I enjoyed that era of Ministry can't forget about this one.

 

[Johni3w6]

Back to 1984 with this gem, album still holds up today. sorry audio only.

 

[Johni3w6]

During 1985 though a bit on the dark side this album was a favorite of mine.....

 

[Johni3w6]

During the 80's my tastes also touched upon the beats coming out of NY,

 

[Dedpop]

Non-trivia: the bassist / background vocalist is Holly Knight, who wrote dozens of 1980's hits, including the classic "Love Touch" by Rod Stewart, who I believe has a fan following on this forum.

You rang ? I can live without "Love Touch" though.

1986 memories :