Ah, the 1980's. The days of Friday Night Videos! (anyone remember staying home Friday night to watch them?). And later, MTV. This was back when MTV played videos. And what videos. Big hair, screaming guitars, and hot chicks! What could be better. I'll start things off with ZZ Top's Legs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNvOPN1LoQ4

Woah! Nothing deserves to be more out of style than that video! imho, of course.

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again is one that has the same qualities you said your video had:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTiwCez6Zs&mode=related&search=

My knowledge of the 80s mostly comes from historical films, such as "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" ;)

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again is one that has the same qualities you said your video had:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTiwCez6Zs&mode=related&search=

Great video! That chick dancing on that car.......hot as hell. I remember buying that album (that's right, album!). I think it was called Slide it in.

Here's another classic, Addicted to Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4EJkI3hN0w

Yeah, that girl is why I ended up seeing that video originally :p

Here's another classic, Addicted to Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4EJkI3hN0w

I never heard of that one before. Would of guessed it was from the '60s. :p

Ill post 1 more before going to bed, Guns 'N Roses Sweet Child O' Mine. (Not really any women I'm afraid :() http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oobDQ0vdm8M

Ill post 1 more before going to bed, Guns 'N Roses Sweet Child O' Mine. (Not really any women I'm afraid :() http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oobDQ0vdm8M
Good song, but definitely a late eighties video. A serious hot chick deficit.

No eighties video list is complete without a little Madonna.
Like a Virgin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHrDPD5bFQA
And the Madonna's theme song, Material Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K4dQ2kCiSo

Another great band from the eighties was Van Halen. That's Van Halen with David Lee Roth. Here's their video, Hot for Teacher. I've heard the dance scenes took forever to film because one of those guys just can't dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5t5GukrWOU

Whip It by Devo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg&mode=related&search=

Like a VirginIMHO that was one of the best videos ever, because it was so richly done--and so controversial! Madonna had a contract to do a huge commercial campaign for Pepsi-Cola. They canceled her because of that song. Can you imagine MTV showing one like that today, when they bother to show videos at all?

Ah MTV. We kept sending postcards to our cable company saying WE WANT OUR MTV. When they finally got it in 1981, the very first night, we watched it all night, every night, for three weeks.

MTV 21 - Fraggles 0 (I think "Fraggle Rock" was already on the air so we were Fraggles by then :))

My favorites of the classic MTV era:

Chris DeBurgh: Don’t Pay the Ferryman
Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
Peter Gabriel: just about anything
Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
Green Jelly: Three Little Pigs
Michael Jackson: Beat It
Greg Kihn: Jeopardy
Krokus: Screamin’ in the Night
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Randy Newman: I Love L.A.
Nine Inch Nails: Head like a Hole
Tubes: One in a Million
ZZ Top: Sharp Dressed Man

Most videos today are cheap performance shots, but there are a few in this class:

Blind Melon: No Rain
Korn: Follow the Leader
Linkin Park: In the End
Tool: Undertow

And I have about an hour of the very first Energizer Bunny commercials on VHS. :)

Somebody posted the link to this a while back. Never liked Oingo Boingo much back in the day, but this tune is kinda catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jItz-uNjoZA

Or how about some Breakfast Club soundtrack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn8lu3C9IE

IMHO that was one of the best videos ever, because it was so richly done--and so controversial! Madonna had a contract to do a huge commercial campaign for Pepsi-Cola. They canceled her because of that song. Can you imagine MTV showing one like that today, when they bother to show videos at all?

Ah MTV. We kept sending postcards to our cable company saying WE WANT OUR MTV. When they finally got it in 1981, the very first night, we watched it all night, every night, for three weeks.

MTV 21 - Fraggles 0 (I think "Fraggle Rock" was already on the air so we were Fraggles by then :))

My favorites of the classic MTV era:

Chris DeBurgh: Don’t Pay the Ferryman
Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
Peter Gabriel: just about anything
Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
Green Jelly: Three Little Pigs
Michael Jackson: Beat It
Greg Kihn: Jeopardy
Krokus: Screamin’ in the Night
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Randy Newman: I Love L.A.
Nine Inch Nails: Head like a Hole
Tubes: One in a Million
ZZ Top: Sharp Dressed Man

Most videos today are cheap performance shots, but there are a few in this class:

Blind Melon: No Rain
Korn: Follow the Leader
Linkin Park: In the End
Tool: Undertow

And I have about an hour of the very first Energizer Bunny commercials on VHS. :)

I think 80's music and videos are cheap and shallow, annoyingly and embarassingly. Silly.

I do halfway find this one amusing but it's still cheesy and shallow. I like it and want to puke and laugh at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXj0QcSDVRE

I posted that invert I had a red headed roomate who was girl crazy and that was his theme song.

Some others from the infancy of MTV

X, one of my all time favorite bands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxOzY7BNs54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcU63BmcnOU

Cure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeZRBStMNQ

Lene Lovitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eAw29VRIiU

It was all Duran Duran (Hungry Liek the Wolf) and Prince (Purple Rain) for me.

Personal Jesus

"I think 80's music and videos are cheap and shallow, annoyingly and embarassingly. Silly."

As opposed to music from the....?



Music marketed to teens and early 20's has always been silly. It's made to be catchy, fun, emotional and, most of all, sell records, 8 tracks, casettes, CDs or the latest manifestation.

One can be serious and have fun in life at the same time. As a teen I'd alternate Bob Dylan and CCR on the mono turntable. Early and mid 80's videos were long past my teen years but I found them refreshingly creative and spearheaded advances in special effects. Today a 14 year old at his computer has more video technology, and editing power and tools than a music studio in 1982. Many 'corny' videos were original works of art.

Science this is a science forum, why not 'Mr. Science' himself, Magnus Pyke, on an 80's video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o&mode=related&search=

Bon Jovi

C'mon!!!
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
The very first video that hit MTV airwaves!! Can't find a damn link to it though. . .

My favorites of the classic MTV era:

Chris DeBurgh: Don’t Pay the Ferryman
Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
Peter Gabriel: just about anything
Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
Green Jelly: Three Little Pigs
Michael Jackson: Beat It
Greg Kihn: Jeopardy
Krokus: Screamin’ in the Night
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Randy Newman: I Love L.A.
Nine Inch Nails: Head like a Hole
Tubes: One in a Million
ZZ Top: Sharp Dressed Man

Most videos today are cheap performance shots, but there are a few in this class:

Blind Melon: No Rain
Korn: Follow the Leader
Linkin Park: In the End
Tool: Undertow

And I have about an hour of the very first Energizer Bunny commercials on VHS. :)
Some good choices there. I love the three little pigs video! Hilarious. I've always liked Don't Pay the Ferryman, although I've never heard anything else by that guy. I actually prefered Wierd Al's version of Jeopary (I lost on Jeopary). Did you see that one?

It is disappointing that modern music videos suck so badly when it would be so much easier to make good ones with modern technology. Most of them are just the band playing. Not even any hot chicks dancing around. Certainly no story or cool effects. (with a few exceptions, as you noted.)

I like this remix of 'we're in heaven'. i think it sounds better than the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na7G143cUCA&mode=related&search=

example a:

Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama's reins
You know playin' blindman's bluff is a little baby's game
You pick up Little Dynamite, I'm gonna pick up Little Gun
And together we're gonna go out tonight and make that highway run

that was the '70s though:D

ok, um eighties video's...there are too many.

this was a big one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2k9e4dYDiA

um, is this one good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKd0EJUZqvk

Hot for teacher awakened me a few years early into puberty.

um, is this one good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKd0EJUZqvk
No. That's some kind of recent remake. Here's Footloose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw

anyone remember

Curley Shuffle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbv2yYc1SjU) and Pac Man Fever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_Fever_(album))?

song, not video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0DlRbjdSo)

This is well done compilation crossing the decades. Any video with a good looking gal is hot. And Debrah was the hottest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw&mode=related&search=

I never saw the following video until much later but the music still makes my blood rush. In the military in parachute training we'd crank up the volume before we had to jump. There was something about cranked up music and Rebel Yell that channeled the sweat and eased the anxiety to get a natural rush.. We'd sing along at the top of our voices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c

Here's the Three Little Pigs by Green Jello (they later changed their name to Green Jelly when the Jello company threatened to sue them).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9W4Ts-tw0

anyone remember

Curley Shuffle

Ah ... the Curly Shuffle. I had that in my music library until I cleared the '80s songs to an archive disc.

Speaking of the '80s ... I'll be heading out in a little bit to go see Styx, Foreigner, and Def Leppard. Rock on. (Chuck lives! (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/DDEDS196T.DTL))

(they later changed their name to Green Jelly when the Jello company threatened to sue them

Yes. But the y has an umlaut over it and is pronounced the same.

By the way, Maynard from Tool is one of the high pitched voices singing "Not by the hair of my chinney chinney chin!" You can hear him named in the song Green Jello Sucks "Maynard and Poopy, they're both insane!" The song Message for Harry Manback by Tool is a message left on the answering machine of the lead singer of Green Jello by a mooch that he kicked out of his house.

As a Bears fan, who can forget the SuperBowl Shuffle!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1790329526

As a Bears fan, who can forget the SuperBowl Shuffle!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1790329526

OMG! I'd forgotten about that one. Its right there with Hip to be Square. weren't the Bears in that one too?

What about Eddie Murphy's My Girl Wants to Party all the Time?

Here's a real classic eighties video. It's got hot chicks all over the place, and in leather to boot. http://www.zyworld.com/excaliburentertainments/folder%20no%204/Mel-Ric-Sue1.JPG
Billy Idol, White Wedding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofzLsvTsM0&mode=related&search=
And, just for fun, I'll throw in Cradle of Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqtd4MkPB94&mode=related&search=

Can't go wrong with motley crue's - girls, girls, girls.
http://www.motley.dk/gfx/coversw/cd/girls%20demos-front-bw.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMLy6B9teEw

J. Giles Band - Centerfold Great video. I always loved the scene where he hits the drum and it's filled with milk (or some white liquid).
http://eardamagezine.com/images/radkidscover.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA

Madanthonwayne do you care about the music at all?
Cause you seem to more concerned about the "hot chicks" in it.

Madanthonwayne do you care about the music at all?
Cause you seem to more concerned about the "hot chicks" in it.
Sure I care about the music. But these are music videos. So eye candy is a plus.

But, to address your complaint, here's one that's cool because of the comic book come to life special effects. I particularly like the scene where the black and white hand reaches out of the comic book. Also, when the guy breaks out of the comic book into reality:
http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/aha.jpg
A-Ha's Take On Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

Here's a cool one.
http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/images/amadeus.gif
Falco's Rock me Amadeus
http://thatvideosite.com/video/2078

In the spring of 1986, they played both the song and video for Rock Me Amadeus so much I'm still sick of it.

Here is something I consider classic, Close To The Edit by The Art Of Noise, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU One night in early 1985, my friends and I were watching Night Flight, and listening to the local college radio station. Night Flight played the Close To The Edit video, and by pure coincidence, the radio station played the song almost perfectly synchronized.

And another 80's band that never broke through the way they should have, Modern Industry by Fishbone, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksEySF03u9U

White Lies, by Jason And The Scorchers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itLeZg85Ac

I turned on MTV at a friend's house in early summer 1985, and I saw White Lies and Modern Industry back to back. I was really impressed, and thought MTV was great. But I never saw either of them ever again, and I watched a lot of MTV in the summer of '85. But they sure showed the videos for Weird Science and Goonies over and over. Most 80's videos were teh suck. Probably not as bad as now though.

This Kylie Minogue song made me a fan. Better The Devil You Know, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=totJ9zrBtNg

Technically from the nineties, it was released so early in 1990 that it is really more of an 80's song and video. She looked great, and the song is a nice bit of pop fluff.

How could I forget the most overplayed video from 1985? Dire Straits, Money For Nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Qvv3RdW-Q

With super high tech computer animation! They really couldn't shut up about it back then.

I love 80s music, grew up watching MTV. I have about 500 80s songs on my computer and am always hunting for more...

Possibly from the 70's, but I first saw it in the 80's. Night Flight had a special on the Residents. These guys are out there, way, way out there. I think David Lynch would think these guys are weird. This video was quite possibly inspired by marathon viewings of Eraserhead, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve0XrTiFiwo

I cracked up with laughter the first time I saw it; it was without a doubt the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen. But I also thought it was great.

More mainstream, but still a bit underground - "Don't Box Me In" Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j6Tln0lN0c&mode=related&search=

Rumble Fish was a good movie, but I think the song and the video outshine it.

Radio 1990 and Night Flight (both on USA network) were the best place to see interesting and original videos in the early 80's. Night flight also showed Reefer Madness a few times. I couldn't imagine middle of the road MTV doing that back then.

Here is something I consider classic, Close To The Edit by The Art Of Noise, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU One night in early 1985, my friends and I were watching Night Flight, and listening to the local college radio station. Night Flight played the Close To The Edit video, and by pure coincidence, the radio station played the song almost perfectly synchronized.
I always found that video vaguely disturbing. For some reason I'd categorize it with Rock It by Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU

Puttin on the Ritz by Taco?? I can't find the video
and Love is a Battlefield-Pat Benetar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J9rTZJBmw)
Flock of Seagulls-I Ran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk&mode=related&search=)

The Pixies refused to lip sync. So they only had a couple of music videos. And this one just makes fun of music videos. Here Comes Your Man, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE Frank Black hopping around and playing guitar while holding his mouth wide open, and Kim Deal opening hers for her backing vocals.

Another rarity, a band actually performing the song for the video - New Order live, 1985, The Perfect Kiss, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g86H-G4R6oU Probably only for NO fans; no explosions or dancing girls. They saved that for Touched By The Hand Of God, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdqJg-NHXlE .

Puttin on the Ritz by Taco?? I can't find the video
and
Here you go: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJ6VGS1EL._AA240_.jpghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1RsWqNIIAA

Flock of Seagulls-I Ran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk&mode=related&search=)
http://www.vintageblues.com/the80s/flock.jpg
Flock of Seagulls? LOL. Worst hair ever. Remember this from Pulp Fiction?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxwkIJzmpVk

How can we forget that Citizen Cane of the Video World, Michael Jackson's Thriller
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2714844
http://banklocater.com/wp-images/thriller.jpghttp://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/games/ps2/action/devil_may_cry_3_Thriller.jpg
It's kind of sad to see how much old Michael has gone downhill. He looked damned near normal in this video!

It was a hell of a video. Michael Jackson is quite talented. I remember when that video came out it was like a major event.

Anyone remember when Paula Abdul wasn't a drunken talent show host?
http://www.therandommuse.com/photos/paula_abdul/paula_abdul.jpg
Straight Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4NcgQZucE&mode=related&search=
http://www.poolparty.com/poolparty/images/2007/03/29/paula_abdul.jpg
Cold Hearted Snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN-Qq2umKZo&mode=related&search=

Remember when the idea of a school shooting was so absurd it was funny?
http://www.allentertainment.net/julie.jpg
Julie Brown, The Homecoming Queen's got a Gun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8hxCpAdCJI
And who can forget that Frank Zappa song that spawned a whole generation of girls who were like, totally annoying? It was pretty ironic. Frank wrote the song to make fun of Valley Girls because he hated them, yet his song caused girls all over the country to start talking that way!
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31597VRDY6L._AA240_.jpg
Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, Valley Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9aY7hXjGU&mode=related&search=
And another novelty song,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Tony_Basil_-_Mickey_picture_cover.jpg
Toni Basil, Hey Mickey
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1327479887
A lot of you probably know this song from the movie, Bring it On.
Here's their version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iogTKbW0o&mode=related&search=

Remember when the idea of a school shooting was so absurd it was funny?

What's absurd is your generation was not more innocent, actually less innocent, more, nasty... more traditional, more sneaky etc.

I've had a few managers and they are either so nasty or ignorant or just give you that awful pessimistic drowning in quicksand feeling but egotistical, a person of the 80's. LOL.

I like this clip though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQaCjbKrRGU

What's absurd is your generation was not more innocent
Hey, who's more wholesome than good old Huey Lewis?
http://www.frontrowking.com/concerts/hueylewisandthenews/huey_l19.jpg
Happy to be Stuck with You.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZQNWCO40k&mode=related&search=
If this is it (one of my favorites)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yowXLgfG0E
I want a New Drug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56V4c2meLBg
Back in Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Rngy90Q14
Heart of Rock and Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvlrX3BbuU&mode=related&search=

Any male from the 1980's remembers the Solid Gold Dancers.
http://www.x-entertainment.com/stuff/l3.jpg
So limber! Here's a video of them set to the Van Halen song Drop Dead Legs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVS6yORfr2g&mode=related&search=

Here's a great one
http://www.rhythms-riffs.com/wp-content/Vapors02.jpghttp://www.bobsboots.com/news/vapors.jpg
Turning Japanese, The Vapors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCcelpvkps

Genesis, Land Of Confusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzShg7yXik

It was funny in 1986, and it's funny now. It makes me want to check and see if the British show it's based on is available on DVD.

Genesis, Land Of Confusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzShg7yXik

It was funny in 1986, and it's funny now. It makes me want to check and see if the British show it's based on is available on DVD.


yeah, that guy has class.

i like this. it's got heart. lyrics are timeless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7Ds81niDw&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmSJDOVGIL8

this is a beautiful puppy love song. before the world taints you, two innocent and pure souls, babes in sincerity.:bawl:

How about something by
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s183122.jpg
The Tubes, She's a Beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkOoffCnR9s
Or a little
http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/archives/images/set2/867-5309.jpg
Tommy Tutone, Jenny (867-5309)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqUPApCUt90
I've heard this guy is now a high school music teacher.

http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/talking_heads/talking_heads_11.jpg
Talking heads
Once in a Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbUCvz1LYE
Burning Down the House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVuLJS_Eok&mode=related&search=

wooohoo i got a good one

The Outfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfSzuFD8rw

woohoo check this one out

o.m.d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfKyHR5-1M

"Remember when the idea of a school shooting was so absurd it was funny?"

There are less school shootings in the USA today than in the 1980's (and a much lower murder rate in the USA over all). What there is now 'more' of are 24 hour news channels scrounging to stretch every incident into a national story. The United States of Paranoi.

Besides the wolrd is now a safer place for man, woman, child and dog because dedicated individuals such as the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJHYSjs3cBw

There are less school shootings in the USA today than in the 1980's (and a much lower murder rate in the USA over all).
I do not recall any mass shootings before Columbine. Were there any? Unless you are talking about that guy up on the clock tower?

Lotsa great old vids brought me around to Adam Ant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacRmnUo4cc&mode=related&search=

Tenpole Tudor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mANx3L-N0yU&mode=related&search=

One of my all time fav madness songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTHMxBttlU
And Devo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcuaJy9OwI

So stricken with remorse was Ant for torturing the general public for so long with such rubbish songs that it sent him STARK RAVING MENTAL!!! (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451817/20020116/story.jhtml)

So stricken with remorse was Ant for torturing the general public for so long with such rubbish songs that it sent him STARK RAVING MENTAL!!! (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451817/20020116/story.jhtml)

Yeah his music didn't age as well as some others :D but I must admit I liked it for awhile when I was 16-17.

anyone remember this video? I sang it over and over because I was mad at my boyfriend.
You Ain't Worth The Salt in My Tears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KlcL6V2H0)

and I crank this song up every EVERY time I hear it on the radio.Tainted Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-Vwmdiucw). I can't find the video. I was stunned to find out it was a cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrRxta8doM).

what about Tarzan Boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4QRm786nLE), West End Girls (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mhw_1NLc8), . Has anyone posted a Culture Club video yet?Wild Wild West (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23nqInkEDTc), Midnight Oil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDtaNd26_rMhttp://) (I thought the guy sounded like a goat)

Here's a real classic 80's video with that androgenous look that was popular for a while:
The Human League
http://www.bloggers.it/Ugo/itcommenti/human%20league.jpg
Don't you want me, baby?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUqoKjU3D4
I love songs that tell a story. Who can forget the opening line to this song:
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.......

aha - take on me.... by far

I started this thread with a ZZ Top video, so I'll resurrect it with another:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/72/039_31619~ZZ-Top-Posters.jpg
Every girls crazy about a Sharp Dressed Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW_QCRGvT-g&feature=related

and what was the name of the car? What 3 videos did it appear it? :D

was there ever a tube snake boogie video?

and what was the name of the car? What 3 videos did it appear it? :D

was there ever a tube snake boogie video?
Name of the car? I always thought it was just the ZZ Top car. Didn't know it had a name. The 3 videos? Two of them are already posted: Legs and Sharp Dressed Man. And here's number 3:
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/Z/zztop_eliminatorf.jpg
ZZ-TOP Gimme All Your Lovin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAavDlZIy8&feature=related
If I had to guess the name of the car, I'd go with the name of the album all those songs are from: Eliminator.
And why not one more ZZ Top video:
Velcro Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L__LKaAGhIA&feature=related

aha - take on me.... by far
That is a great video
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/TakeOnMe.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

I'm not sure which came first, the car's name, or the album's name.
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2005/12/stories/10/1.html

I remember many nights of fruitless driving in circles on Friday and Saturday nights (cruising) in my friend's '69 fastback Mustang with Eliminator playing in his Alpine stereo. MTV wasn't yet available in my hometown, so a friend who spent the summer of '83 in Stockton, where they did have MTV, described them to us when he came back.

I remember many nights of fruitless driving in circles on Friday and Saturday nights (cruising) in my friend's '69 fastback Mustang with Eliminator playing in his Alpine stereo. MTV wasn't yet available in my hometown, so a friend who spent the summer of '83 in Stockton, where they did have MTV, described them to us when he came back.1983 was a great year for videos. Here's a real classic. My wife is a huge Brian Setzer fan to this day.
Stray Cat Strut, The Stray Cats
http://www.briansetzer.com/gonnaball/french.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGg3_T_FcOQ

Golden earring - Twilight zone
http://earring.punt.nl/upload/cut1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
Cool cold war era video.

madant, do you have a video for Radar Love? (I always thought it was red eye love) I still don't understand the song so maybe the video will help. And I don't know who sings it.

madant, do you have a video for Radar Love? (I always thought it was red eye love) I still don't understand the song so maybe the video will help. And I don't know who sings it.
Here's one you should like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R4PUU7kJPc&feature=related

nice!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zligio51yP4

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=387ZDGSKVSg

now that's old school.
genius.

I was at a Rocket Football game (3rd-7th graders) They were playing music over the loudspeaker during half time. Wild Thing came on and these 3rd grader cheerleaders (one of them my daughter) started gettin' down. They didn't play it all the way through. Apparently they hadn't actually listened to the lyrics before.

I was at a Rocket Football game (3rd-7th graders) They were playing music over the loudspeaker during half time. Wild Thing came on and these 3rd grader cheerleaders (one of them my daughter) started gettin' down. They didn't play it all the way through. Apparently they hadn't actually listened to the lyrics before.
v.good album. (loced after dark)

he also made a cameo appearence in the film heat (deniro/pacino)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffVdKswD0Ec

I thought she was sooooooooo pretty.

Here's one you should like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R4PUU7kJPc&feature=related

I'm speechless. I think I'm gonna cry. Its the most beautiful.....:bawl:
:thankyou:

I'm speechless. I think I'm gonna cry. Its the most beautiful.....:bawl:
:thankyou:
You're welcome. I aim to please. Remember when 1999 was far off in the future? Here's
Prince, 1999
http://www.geocities.com/thadistrict/prince.jpg
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?artist=14481&vid=18121
And can any mention of Prince be complete without something from Purple Rain?
Let's go crazy:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?artist=14481&vid=58775
When Doves Cry
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?artist=14481&vid=9700
That guy was so talented. The whole marketing of Purple Rain was brilliant. The video was an advertisement for the movie which was an ad for the album which was.......repeat. And he was always surrounded by very beautiful women. Apallonia, Sheila E, Shenna Easton, the list goes on.

This one came up on my playlist recently. Don't Shed A Tear, by Paul Carrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4wa-432xQ I put that one on a mix tape for my ex GF when she left town as a going away present.

A dark classic - Welcome To The Boomtown, by David and David.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tealvVk2FxE

A guilty pleasure, like so many from the late 80's - Crazy, by Icehouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVkuuCch7w

I won this record on a trivia contest a local radio station used to play called Rockquiz, so I actually liked them after listening to the record a few times. I worked the night shift at a service station, and I used to win several nights a week (lots of music trivia in my head). Sometimes I wouldn't even go and pick up whatever I won (it was never anything big). I just liked hearing them say my name as the winner on the radio.

When I hear songs like this now, I have to admit that much of the pleasure comes from being reminded of what it was like to be 22 years old.

A dark classic - Welcome To The Boomtown, by David and David.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tealvVk2FxE
Wow. Great song. I haven't heard that one for years. Here's one:
The Boomtown Rats, I don't like Mondays.
http://www.cyberspace7.btinternet.co.uk/mondayspic.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os
These guys are famous for this song and for organizing live aid.

I was at a Rocket Football game (3rd-7th graders) They were playing music over the loudspeaker during half time. Wild Thing came on and these 3rd grader cheerleaders (one of them my daughter) started gettin' down. They didn't play it all the way through. Apparently they hadn't actually listened to the lyrics before.
Did you mean this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/LOTGK/Album%20Covers/samkinison01.jpghttp://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o238/screaminsam/a8_1_b.jpg
Wild Thing, Sam Kinisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjM7292eHk
I loved Sam Kinison. Here's a couple of his appearances on Letterman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VURr6jnWQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9DdTXxDFU&feature=related

More likely she means the version by X. It was featured in the film Major League, and has become a sort of sports anthem since. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ8-CFlbI_o

Exxene Cervenka (the lead singer) used to married to Viggo Mortensen (the actor who played Aragorn)!

Oh, you meant the Tone Loc version, NM.

One of the most influential bands of the 80's, New Order released a remix of Blue Monday in 1988. The video is a classic, only the only music video I know of to star a Weimaraner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3duUzBbBmmc