The 80s had some weird ass music videos.

[88keys]

It's laughably cheesy yet fascinating at the same time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGntbLdUb0

 

[twinrider1]

It was a new frontier. lol, yea, some of them don't hold up very well. There were new technologies becoming available and sometimes they were used just to be using the latest thing and not because they helped tell a story. And you'd see one video break ground with a style or technology and then a bunch of others use it.

Also, it was a good medium for young new filmmakers. They didn't have the budget or reputation to make big movies, but they could make a video. And you could try things in a video you couldn't risk in a big movie.

 

[Eli]

That was... tough to watch.

I don't think I've ever even heard of this band lol

 

[mikeymikec]

It's laughably cheesy yet fascinating at the same time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGntbLdUb0

Pah, that's nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYHRx9-v2M

 

[cardiac]

That was... tough to watch.

I don't think I've ever even heard of this band lol

Not even this tune? It is actually pretty good for the 80's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

 

[Thebobo]

Flock of seagulls -I actually have the album

I ran

 

[brianmanahan]

nothing is better than toto - africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

 

[Ichinisan]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2181386
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2428494 Kinda
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36176107
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2261578

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtuoFv4dcwM

still a cool song but it has
a water treatment plant, some stuffy inspector, impossibly loud decibels on a meter, exploding head, dropped pants. Giving no F's about pointing a laser at an eye.

While he didn't do it in this video when Halford walks around in ass-less chaps its Metal not gay.

 

[Spacehead]

It's laughably cheesy yet fascinating at the same time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGntbLdUb0

Always seemed weird to me that the drummer for Mr. Mister plays with King Crimson. That's quite the move in musical direction!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Always seemed weird to me that the drummer for Mr. Mister plays with King Crimson. That's quite the move in musical direction!

Weird but for a second I thought it was King Diamond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Diamond

 

[Pardus]

Sledgehammer showcased the infinite possibilities of animation by turning Gabriel's head into ice and most of his face to fruit. Welcome to the 80's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

kids..... I grew up watching mtv in it's infancy, and yea, the video's were cheesy beyond compare at times, but they were what they were.
This, imo, was one of the absolute worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU

but then there was this, which was pretty freaking cool considering the technology at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

 

[John Connor]

That was... tough to watch.

I don't think I've ever even heard of this band lol

You never heard this song?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

 

[John Connor]

This song has always struck me as odd. But the song is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0

 

[tynopik]

You never heard this song?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

Kyrie was the other song they were known for

 

[thesmokingman]

It's laughably cheesy yet fascinating at the same time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGntbLdUb0

It's like they just discovered compositing, take an image not in footage and insert it into the footage. Then they just kept compositing over and over lol. I'm sure they thought it was really cool back then.

 

[John Connor]

Yeah, this video was considered state of the art back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag (That's Sting in the background BTW)

I'll add this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

 

[MongGrel]

It was a new frontier.

New Frontier


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU

but then there was this, which was pretty freaking cool considering the technology at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

You beat me to that one, was going to put it up.

 

[Eli]

Not even this tune? It is actually pretty good for the 80's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

I listened to that before posting because I noticed it had so many hits. But nope, I'm pretty sure I've never heard it.

Is this like 80s pop? lol. I grew up listening to 50s and 60s rock, and graduated to hard rock/metal in the mid 90s. I guess I've just never listened to a station that would play such things.

 

[tynopik]

Is this like 80s pop? lol. I grew up listening to 50s and 60s rock, and graduated to hard rock/metal in the mid 90s. I guess I've just never listened to a station that would play such things.

#1 US Billboard Hot 100 (Dec 1985)
#3 US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary
#4 US Billboard Top Rock Tracks

 

[Captante]

While he didn't do it in this video when Halford walks around in ass-less chaps its Metal AND gay.

Ftfy.