Favorite 80s music vids? Inspired by RQ's Smiths thread...

[tigereye]

Again, some Smiths - always loved this song...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DE8UQnM5Y&feature=related


Romeo Void


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icibDDQi4EU&feature=related


later, but a bit of mushy Westerberg

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

Wall of Voodoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_0gPrzGA0

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Definitely.

The long version of Cabaret Voltaire's "Sensoria" -this video and others by them were on display at one of the State's major museums of art.

"The Evening's Young" by Yello.

Pretty much anything by The Residents and / or Renaldo and the Loaf.

Top of the charts: Laurie Anderson, "O Superman". Still gives me goosebumps.

[KittyWampus]

2. Sledgehammer

[tigereye]

3. yeah that's a very good one!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid," Hall & Oates, 1984:

I was really happy to find this on YouTube a while back. I always thought that "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid" was the moment in which it all came together for Hall & Oates...listen to Hall's "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0ov4Xes1s

...visually, I was always a sucker for the sparks and water flying off the guitar strings. It's a perfect balance between a straight performance vid and the special effects-laden stuff that became a staple during MTV's mid-80s. The end has a nice "melodic / threatening" sort of Beatle-esque, "I Am The Walrus" feel in its repetition.

Hall & Oates hit a peak with the "Big Bam Boom" album that they've never recaptured, but what a peak it was.

:toast:

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Money for Nothing

quintessential 80's to me.

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

[Capn Sunshine]

6. oh yeah, and '"Lovecats "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=habUeI8zNS0

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I love when these threads spring up...

Some of these aren't actual music videos, just performance clips, but whatever.

Ramones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEOZA2k3Plw

Bad Brains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjITD9LnwRY

Husker Du
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5-nlsotYY

Black Flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q-Bv0ahP6U

Dead Kennedys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_TRSoQkJ0

I'm clearly in a punk rock mood tonight, haha.

[KittyWampus]

9. whut... no clash like wtf?

:D

OMG the BadBrains ....

I found some Minutemen on Youtube.

How fucking cool is that?

edit, best find was some Minor Threat.

[tigereye]

10. I was gonna post some MInutemen, but got distracted

[ghostsofgiants]

12. The Clash seemed too obvious.

:P

I should have posted some Minor Threat though. They're one of my favourites. :D

[tigereye]

16. cool!

here's Sheena

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDFWZpZLEW4&feature=related


damn I still can see Joey standing there when they played here one time in a bar before the show -wow - we were stunned. He looked so geeky and cute and tall. RIP.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_mHFfOMWE&feature=related

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Here's a Joey Ramone comic strip for you...

[tigereye]

20. he he he

:rofl:

that's great!

[redqueen]

22. Hah...

Aww... I <3 The Ramones, especially Joey.

[KittyWampus]

8. As a Long Island girl, I'd be remiss in not mentioning The Ramones, I Want To Be Sedated

but if you want the real thing... the Cramps, Garbageman

all on Youtube for your viewing and listening pleasure :)

[tigereye]

11. love, love the Cramps!

[Capn Sunshine]

13. CRAMPS!

Totally RULE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SswZkDWU4o

[redqueen]

23. Not Bikini Girls with Machine Guns?

I'm going to have to watch Garbageman again... I forget videos. And books and movies too. Brain like a sieve.



Okay I looked and yeah... I prefer the video for Bikini Girls. It's great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBo4wZmH0UQ&feature=related

[HEyHEY]

14. I always pick this, but I don't care..... "Regret" by New Order

Fuck I love that song. It makes me happy in a sad way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrUr66Sed9k&feature=related

[tigereye]

15. more Stan Ridgway - Just Drive She Said

what a great story teller...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfSFmDtAGlc&feature=related

[Arugula Latte]

17. Here's a totally freakadelic friends-of-Boy George bohos have a hoedown video -- "Shiny, Shiny"

Anyone remember Haysi Fantayzee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo

[redqueen]

21. I do!

I was just thinking of that song a couple weeks ago. :)

[jobycom]

19. Two songs and videos that summed up the 80s for me. "Fast Car," and "End of the Innocence"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6yilkU1LI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipP3qy-NZKE