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Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:24 am
by Winnow
Can't have enough music threads! Since I like the 80's and don't want to stink up the "Add a cool song" thread with too much 80's. This thread is for posting your favorite 80's songs. Maybe try to find the less known, forgotten songs, one hit wonders, etc.
Kicking it off with Big Country!
In a Big Country
Great song and pretty good video for the 80's. Happy ending to video but sad to hear the lead singer has passed on. You learn stuff in the YouTube comments sometimes!
So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you.
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded.
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming.
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted.
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered.
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert,
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime.
And in a big country, dreams stay with you,
Like a lover's voice, fires the mountainside..
Stay alive..
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:31 am
by Xatrei
I'd say "Melt With You" but now that it's used to sell crappy tacos, I can't in good conscience post that. Here's one that's always been a favorite of mine instead.
"Dear God" by XTC
Here's a bonus song that gets stuck in my head sometimes and won't go away for days or weeks...
Surprise Bonus Song (not a rick roll)
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:47 am
by nneenaK
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:49 am
by Xatrei
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:51 am
by Winnow
Xatrei wrote:I'd say "Melt With You" but now that it's used to sell crappy tacos, I can't in good conscience post that. Here's one that's always been a favorite of mine instead.
Melt with you is one of the all time greats. You can't discard it because of the lame present day overuse of it.
Nice surprise song.
Another one hitter:
Gary Numan - Cars
Bonus song:
M - Pop Muzik
Note: Pop Muzik was released in 1979 but check the video. If that's not ushering in the 80's I don't know what is!
Edit: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes is a great song nneenaK
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:59 am
by Aslanna
Xatrei wrote:I'd say "Melt With You" but now that it's used to sell crappy tacos, I can't in good conscience post that.
And before that, if I remember correctly, it was used to sell crappy Whoppers.
Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years this song still gets to me
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight A classic. Can't not include it.
A-Ha - Take On Me You can't have a list of 80s videos and not include this either.
Also include basically any Peter Gabriel video from 'So' although I'll go with
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up Two great tastes that go great together.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 4:31 am
by Fairweather Pure
The Art of Noise-Close to the Edit
I loved The Art of Noise back in the day. Good stuff indeed.
My bonus video---
Flock of Seagulls-I Ran
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 4:33 am
by Winnow
Excellent choices aslanna. Some meaningful lyrics songs there.
Ah-Ha deserves to be on any all time top ten list of music videos.
Peeps are picking quality deep songs while I'm going with the more pop'ish part of the 80's so far!
Here's another along those lines:
Howard Jones - New Song
I dont wanna be hip and cool
I dont wanna play by the rules
Not under the thumb of the cynical few
Or laden down by the doom crew
Dont crack up
Bend your brain
See both sides
Throw off your mental chains
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 4:39 am
by Fairweather Pure
This is likely the video and song I looked forward to most when I was a kid watching Mtv.
Whip It
EDIT: One more, NWS!
Girls on Film-Duran Duran
I loved this video for obvious reasons
I saw it when my dad rented a Duran Duran video tape that had all thier videos and some live stuff. It was the only way to see this because of the subject matter.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 5:10 am
by Tyek
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 5:20 am
by Tyek
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 9:29 am
by Spang
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 9:31 am
by Boogahz
After DJing at Polly Esther's, I refuse to participate in this thread. I am trying to get that damn music out of my head.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 11:08 am
by laneela
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 11:30 am
by miir
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:54 pm
by Momopi
Did you grow up in Los Angeles? I haven't met too many people who know about siouxsie that wasn't from LA. You could say i'm a big fan heh.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 12:56 pm
by Boogahz
eh? They're a bit more widely known than just LA!
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:09 pm
by Momopi
Boogahz wrote:eh? They're a bit more widely known than just LA!
Serious? In my entire life I have met less people then fingers on my hand who knew more than one of her songs. She got heavy playtime in LA so most everyone my age who grew up in LA knew her. What other cities gave her decent airplay? My only other guess would be like Austin or something?
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:35 pm
by Aslanna
That video was fairly frequent on MTV at the time. I think. I remember seeing it a lot. I was living in Florida.
Released in 1988, the album gave the Banshees their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.: "Peek-a-Boo" climbed to number fifty-three. "Peek-a-Boo," which is entirely backmasked (the band had to learn to play the song in reverse) also was the first number-one on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The Banshees claim it to be their masterpiece
Doesn't sound too obscure to me.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:40 pm
by Tyek
More from her then
The Creatures - Miss the Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7ysXtD2r4
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:45 pm
by Momopi
Aslanna wrote:That video was fairly frequent on MTV at the time. I think. I remember seeing it a lot. I was living in Florida.
Released in 1988, the album gave the Banshees their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.: "Peek-a-Boo" climbed to number fifty-three. "Peek-a-Boo," which is entirely backmasked (the band had to learn to play the song in reverse) also was the first number-one on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The Banshees claim it to be their masterpiece
Doesn't sound too obscure to me.
But my point is are you familiar with many of their songs? aside from the one song peek a boo, her works are really not widely known. Just saying it's a shame that she didn't really catch on as much as she should have. Was very talanted but oh well such is life.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:47 pm
by Xatrei
Considering they're a brit band, and include former members such as Robert Smith of The Cure (temporarily filling in for umm... whats his name... after he left the band), they're hardly anything but an LA phenomenon. I heard them plenty in Nebraska and here in Alabama way back when. I remember I had tickets to see them in the mid 80's here in Birmingham, but ended up not going for some reason. That was when they had a bit of pop success thanks to MTV, but they'd been getting air time on the UA college station for years before then. I'd known about them probably for 8+ years by the time that Peek-a-boo charted (I never was overly fond of that song, incidentally).
They weren't mainstream, so I'm sure they weren't known by top-40 types prior to their commercial success, but anyone that was into alt/post-punk/new-wave stuff in the 80's should have been plenty familiar with them.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:51 pm
by Momopi
well its cool to know she was getting some playtime other then LA then. I must have been meeting the wrong people. I can be pretty sure that out of most cities that LA does know more about her and her songs due to KROQ giving her a lot of play.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:54 pm
by Ashur
Agreed, not mainstream - but very widely known.
No Station here in Columbus Ohio played them until CD101 came online, but they were very popular at Ohio State University Clubs.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 1:59 pm
by Xatrei
Saying "her" or "she" isn't really right, btw... Siouxsie and the Banshees is a band. Siouxsie Sioux is a person. They may have gotten more radio play in LA, but that's not really that important. Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave stuff wasn't really radio fodder in 99% of the radio markets in this country. Here any sort of music that wasn't country, jesusy, soft rock, easy listening, classic rock, R&B/Soul, oldies or top-40 was relegated to a few hours on dedicated genre shows on a handful of stations. They had a big following, none the less.
Edit to add: Peek-a-boo came out in 88, which is later than I thought... When they played in Birmingham was at least 2 or 3 years before that in 85 or 86.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 2:07 pm
by Momopi
I understand they were a band i say she cause its easier to type. It might be a little bit important because KROQ has been known to propel a lot of good music into the mainstream, IE Pet Shop Boys etc. While Siousxie wasnt mainstream she had a good following in LA since she was played since the early 80's so thats why I say a lot of people my age growing up in LA knew most of her stuff.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 2:10 pm
by Xatrei
The Pet Shop Boys owe their success to KROQ? Are you kidding me?
I'm not saying that KROQ wasn't an influential station way back when, and they may be responsible for exposing a lot of music to millions of people in SoCal, but lets not get carried away here.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 2:19 pm
by Momopi
I think they owe some success to KROQ yes. Where do you think they got the initial momentum push for west end girls?
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 2:48 pm
by Xatrei
London?
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 2:59 pm
by Momopi
you would think but it was cited on their video biography that kroq blew up west end girls.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:20 pm
by Ashur
Momo is absolutely correct. Without KROQ we would have gone straight from John Denver to Nirvana and missed the 80s entirely. Credit where credit is due.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:24 pm
by Fairweather Pure
I guess I didn't know this song was that old. It still gets me pumped even after all these years. That entire album was intense (The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste).
On the plus side, I think I was about 14 when that came out, which means I was a little more on the intense/innovative side of music back then if I was listening to this stuff.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:26 pm
by Momopi
Ashur wrote:Momo is absolutely correct. Without KROQ we would have gone straight from John Denver to Nirvana and missed the 80s entirely. Credit where credit is due.
aww come on i don't mean it like that. most bands got big without the help of kroq but some bands got their big break cause of them too. it evens out in the end.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:34 pm
by Aabidano
Momopi wrote:Boogahz wrote:eh? They're a bit more widely known than just LA!
Serious? In my entire life I have met less people then fingers on my hand who knew more than one of her songs. She got heavy playtime in LA so most everyone my age who grew up in LA knew her. What other cities gave her decent airplay? My only other guess would be like Austin or something?
They got quite a bit of playtime on a (now defunct) alternative station in Pensacola.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 3:48 pm
by Xatrei
Momopi wrote:you would think but it was cited on their video biography that kroq blew up west end girls.
As I said, KROQ may have helped expose them to a lot of people in SoCal, but that song was taking off without them. After it originally tanked, and was completely reworked, the song was charting in Europe (without KROQ's help), and was getting a lot of airplay in the states as a result (MTV should get a lot of credit here too). Obviously, KROQ helped expose a lot of bands to a bigger audience and was/is an influential station, but lets not overstate their impact.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 8:39 pm
by Chmee
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 9:00 pm
by Keverian FireCry
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 10:35 pm
by Winnow
Fairweather Pure wrote:
EDIT: One more, NWS!
Girls on Film-Duran Duran
I loved this video for obvious reasons
I saw it when my dad rented a Duran Duran video tape that had all thier videos and some live stuff. It was the only way to see this because of the subject matter.
Nice! I'd never seen the uncensored version of this. Great song.
A Soul Glow Triple feature: (I'll let someone else post Prince)
Ready for the World - Oh Sheila (used to be my favorite dance song!)
Above song was rumored to be written about:
Sheila E - Glamorous Life
Skanky Vanity turned ultra religious type makes this video hard to find! Yahoo Vids comes through:
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl (Prince had some hot women)
Bonus Song:
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 11:18 pm
by miir
This is one of my all time favorite videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81UChK78WY
Lose Your Love
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 4, 2008, 11:56 pm
by laneela
Momopi wrote:
Did you grow up in Los Angeles? I haven't met too many people who know about siouxsie that wasn't from LA. You could say i'm a big fan heh.
Luckily, no. Though I did a three year stint in the area a few years back that I'm still trying to forget. I don't know that they were "big" in Puerto Rico and Miami where I grew up, but they had some airtime. The Glove and The Creatures I think were/are a little more obscure. I want to say Cities in Dust was a better known single than Peek-a-Boo. It was in my neck of the woods anyway.
Here's another one: Theme from S'Express
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JP_2qjzj73Y
When I first saw the group name (in '88, I was 11) I giggled.
edit: I just confirmed that Siouxsie got airtime in Uruguay in the 80's too (he recognized Cities in Dust quicker than Peek-a-Boo)
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 5, 2008, 12:10 am
by Tyek
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 3:18 am
by Ogbar
Here's a few:
Voice of the Beehive,
"I Say Nothing"
Every time I watch this video (and many of their others, frankly), I can't help but wonder how may pairs of shoes those girls go through with all their stomping around. Zowie!
Rubber Rodeo,
"Anywhere With You"
I'm sure I've posted this before, but not in the 80s link below, so it's fair game.
The Jam,
"Beat Surrentder"
I'm a big Jam fan. Too bad they have nothing but crappy quality video of them on YouTube. :\
And then I was going to post a bunch of other songs but I saw they were already on another thread ... so I'll just steal them from
that 'Son of 80's Videos' thread:
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 4:52 am
by Winnow
Dug around for a few more:
Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
Another one hit wonder from the 80's.
Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Great song. You'll like it/remember it when you hear it. (after the main beat kicks in)
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Rick James - Super Freak
Because you can't leave out the Super Freak!
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 1:23 pm
by Aslanna
Tori Amos - The Big Picture - Yes, before Little Earthquakes there was this. The only video from the
Y Kant Tori Read album. She's disowned the album but I actually listen to it now and then. It's definite 80s poppiness but you can hear the talent buried in there on a lot of the songs.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 3:44 pm
by Winnow
Didn't realize this came out in the 80's.
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Tribute to same song by Celtic Woman: (good audio just not quite sync'd)
Celtic Woman - Orinoco Flow
Since Enya remixes her voice so many times, I thought the second video interesting to see all the people singing it live.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 5:26 pm
by Ogbar
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 6, 2008, 6:33 pm
by Tyek
I saw the Alarm at UCLA when the simulcasted it on MTV, was an amazing show. My girlfriend (at the time) and I got there the night before so we were 5th row at the show. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 7, 2008, 2:06 am
by Tyek
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: April 7, 2008, 9:13 am
by Aabidano
NWS - Spinal Tap - Big Bottom - NWS
Probably not good at work unless you've got headphones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOYKgXk ... re=related
Re: Only 80's Videos
Posted: May 3, 2008, 9:22 pm
by Winnow
Must add some Missing Persons songs to the 80's thread:
Words
(great legs)
Detination Unknown (Missing Persons) side note. wth is this? (semi NWS)
Destination Unknown
And since we're posting lesser known songs:
Noticeable One