80's Music Videos

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-01-29 12:05pm

I recently watched the movie 13 Going on 30. The DVD included the full videos of Pat Benatar's Love is a Battlefield and Rick Springfield's Jessie's Girl.

Damn were those things awful.

On the DVD for Legend there is a music video of some song that played over the end credits for at least the America version of the movie. That video sucked too, plus it made some of the 80's "fashions" more obvious. In particular the jacket with the rolled up sleaves.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-01-29 03:42pm

The worst '80s music video was David Bowie's and Mick Jagger's Dancin' in the Street.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-01-29 07:49pm

what were you doing watching 13 going on 30, mr. manly man?

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2005-01-29 08:22pm

I really enjoy seeing some of the 80s videos. You can see some real creativity when directors had basically no budget.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-01-30 05:00am

The woman in the video of "Hey Mickey" scares the hell out of me.

Marksist · Post by **Marksist** » 2005-01-30 05:05am

I always liked Michael Jackson music videos from the '80s... before he completely flaked out. The music video for "Thriller" is an all time classic, and the video for "Bad" was directed by Martin Scorsese, and is pretty entertaining.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-30 05:15am

Gandalf wrote:The woman in the video of "Hey Mickey" scares the hell out of me.

Which one, the original Tony Basil or the newer, Lolly version?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-01-30 05:17am

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Gandalf wrote:The woman in the video of "Hey Mickey" scares the hell out of me.
Which one, the original Tony Basil or the newer, Lolly version?

I don't really know, I saw it a few months ago ant it was definitely 80's.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-30 05:25am

Gandalf wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Gandalf wrote:The woman in the video of "Hey Mickey" scares the hell out of me.
Which one, the original Tony Basil or the newer, Lolly version?
I don't really know, I saw it a few months ago ant it was definitely 80's.

Tony Basil clip: one horrible chick whose makeup thicker than M1 Abrams's armor.
Lolly clip: A LOT of horrible chicks would make Spice Girls look tasteful.

Make your pick.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-01-30 05:30am

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: Which one, the original Tony Basil or the newer, Lolly version?
I don't really know, I saw it a few months ago ant it was definitely 80's.
Tony Basil clip: one horrible chick whose makeup thicker than M1 Abrams's armor.
Lolly clip: A LOT of horrible chicks would make Spice Girls look tasteful.

Make your pick.

First one, that woman's gaze could kill Medusa.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-30 05:40am

Gandalf wrote:First one, that woman's gaze could kill Medusa.

Ah, Tony Basil. The only thing worse is Majel Barret wearing such custome and armor-thick makeup singing "Mickey" at Ten-Forward.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-01-30 12:49pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:what were you doing watching 13 going on 30, mr. manly man?

I'm secure enough in my manliness that I can watch the ocassional chick flick or too as long as it is either funny or has a hot chick staring in it. This one had both, although it was only moderately funny.

On the same note I won't ever watch either of the Briget Jones movies because I can't stand Renee Zelwigger.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-01-30 12:57pm

Marksist wrote:I always liked Michael Jackson music videos from the '80s... before he completely flaked out. The music video for "Thriller" is an all time classic, and the video for "Bad" was directed by Martin Scorsese, and is pretty entertaining.

The videos for pretty much any song from his Thriller album are generally good. They hardly ever used to show the full version of Thriller because it was so long and that was too bad since the werewolf intro was the cool part.

Beat It was a good video as well. It also was the begining of the Weird Al parody videos, in this case Eat It, that used almost all the same people who orginated in the orginal.

I remember Tom Petty and the Cars having some decent videos from that time.

Phil Collins had that great one for Land of Confusion which had all the look alike puppets for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer came out in the 80s too.

The ones that I find pretty hilarious are the lower budget ones that try to get by on the hotness/coolness/hippness of the artists. Considering each of those categories can change over time I just find some of them really funny now. The hair, make up and clothes.

I don't notice it as much if the video is essentially the artist peforming onstage or whatever.

Twisted Sister had some good/funny videos from the early 80s and I can't imagine that they cost a whole lot.