With my 40th birthday just a few weeks off, I must be gearing up for my *official* midlife crisis. When Mr. Shiny mentioned vintage MTV in his Random Sh**e thread, I became obsessed with that weird, wondrous concoction from the days when I could only see it when I visited my Dad in the city on the weekends.
Not wanting to clutter up his sh**e thread with crap (they being totally different things), I thought I would create this bin to post those videos from yesteryear that my memories are dredging up.
But I would really love for this to be something other than Trey sitting in a corner booth and sniffling into a Bud longneck while listening to Bow Wow Wow (shudder). So it would be great if anyone wants to link to any music video they love from any period, to do so.
Because today, my friends, we can be the VeeJays.
Let's lift off, and though I know I should play the Buggles next, I just can't pass up on this, because there's no place to hang out our washing and I can't blame all on the sun, oh no!
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MTV way back when was kinda hit and miss. For every awesomely awesome, or even half-decent, track, there was ten tons of crap.
I'd sit up half the night hoping to catch something great on Headbangers' Ball on Monday nights, but usually came away disappointed, as they only showed big hair nonsense.
Of course, MTV these days eats it raw. Boooh!
MTV way back when was kinda hit and miss. For every awesomely awesome, or even half-decent, track, there was ten tons of crap.
I'd sit up half the night hoping to catch something great on Headbangers' Ball on Monday nights, but usually came away disappointed, as they only showed big hair nonsense.
Of course, MTV these days eats it raw. Boooh!
I was fine with All We Are. It was kind of like the Wizard of Oz baddy's chant "All we are... we OWE her!" Doro never went on to do anything else I could listen to.
EDIT: Youtube isn't working for me today. The videos won't load. All We Are may have just not sucked because I was a kid at the time. I'm still waiting to see if it held up. (Guessing, that like most hair metal, it didn't)
MTV way back when was kinda hit and miss. For every awesomely awesome, or even half-decent, track, there was ten tons of crap.
I'd sit up half the night hoping to catch something great on Headbangers' Ball on Monday nights, but usually came away disappointed, as they only showed big hair nonsense.
Of course, MTV these days eats it raw. Boooh!
Headbanger's Ball isn't too bad nowadays. I caught some awesome modern metal videos a few weeks back. Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it? Well I was born after MTV had begun its spiral into never actually playing music videos anymore (Have you seen what they play now? Not music-related whatsoever!).
VH1 Classic is awesome for music videos, documentaries, and pretty much anything music-related though.
Of course, MTV these days eats it raw. Boooh!
Headbanger's Ball isn't too bad nowadays. I caught some awesome modern metal videos a few weeks back. Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it? Well I was born after MTV had begun its spiral into never actually playing music videos anymore (Have you seen what they play now? Not music-related whatsoever!).
VH1 Classic is awesome for music videos, documentaries, and pretty much anything music-related though.
That's the first video I've been able to view on youtube all day. Wonder why.
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In fairness to Doro, "All We Are" is OK-ish. I just couldn't think of any other German hairspray band off the top of my head. BTW, I saw her live a couple of years ago on an outdoor festival; she's aged well, but the music... Let's not talk about that. ;P
I caught some awesome modern metal videos a few weeks back. Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it? Well I was born after MTV had begun its spiral into never actually playing music videos anymore (Have you seen what they play now? Not music-related whatsoever!).
Rawk! Nice song. And, yeah, what happened to actually playing music on MTV?
In fairness to Doro, "All We Are" is OK-ish. I just couldn't think of any other German hairspray band off the top of my head. BTW, I saw her live a couple of years ago on an outdoor festival; she's aged well, but the music... Let's not talk about that. ;P
You mean you don't want to check out her rape of an old Procol Harum classic? Why do people cover songs just to cover them? Add your own signature flavor or abstain. Just because you like a song does not mean you are in any way indebted to mangle it with crunchy guitar for its own sake and video flame baths.
MTV way back when was kinda hit and miss. For every awesomely awesome, or even half-decent, track, there was ten tons of crap.
Too true. There is a lot of stuff that was on extremely heavy rotation back then that I will not be linking to. Unless it is to inflict pain. And there is a lot of great stuff they didn't play that I am going to link to here, because I did love me some videos back then.
Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it?
Only for me, amigo. Everybody is encouraged to link to anything they want. I'm looking forward to rocking out to everyone else's magic jams. Goodness knows the radio's giving me nothing these days.
Probably one of the reasons I liked old MTV was the hit-or-miss aspect of it. It was pretty rough around the edges and made the rare awesome video an event. And YouTube audio even replicates the lousy mono quality of the old TV speakers. Crank it up and generate that homegrown acoustic distortion!
Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it?Only for me, amigo. Everybody is encouraged to link to anything they want. I'm looking forward to rocking out to everyone else's magic jams. Goodness knows the radio's giving me nothing these days.
Probably one of the reasons I liked old MTV was the hit-or-miss aspect of it. It was pretty rough around the edges and made the rare awesome video an event. And YouTube audio even replicates the lousy mono quality of the old TV speakers. Crank it up and generate that homegrown acoustic distortion!
Weird. That's not my quote. By the pricking of my thumb something wicked this way comes!
Why do people cover songs just to cover them? Add your own signature flavor or abstain.
Oh man, I just was in a store the other day and heard a version of Huey Lewis and the News's "Working for a Living." It took me a minute and a half for it to even register it was a cover.
The part that bugs me the most is the feeling that the reason it came about is that stations are so tightly formatted today, that if one classified as "Modern Country," or whatever it is, wants to play "Working for a Living," they can't until they have an official country band record it, even if the resulting recording sounds almost exactly like the one they can't play because it's not an official country band.
But probably I'm just bitter and paranoid because they've managed to kill off pretty much all the DJs, and at one point, I had thought of being one of them.
Weird. That's not my quote. By the pricking of my thumb something wicked this way comes!
It was in the middle of this?
Headbanger's Ball isn't too bad nowadays. I caught some awesome modern metal videos a few weeks back. Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it? Well I was born after MTV had begun its spiral into never actually playing music videos anymore (Have you seen what they play now? Not music-related whatsoever!).
Edit: Oh, I see, the quote didn't distribute right from the person you were quoting.
Weird. That's not my quote. By the pricking of my thumb something wicked this way comes!It was in the middle of this?
Headbanger's Ball isn't too bad nowadays. I caught some awesome modern metal videos a few weeks back. Though this is supposed to be classic MTV isn't it? Well I was born after MTV had begun its spiral into never actually playing music videos anymore (Have you seen what they play now? Not music-related whatsoever!).
That warn't me. :)
It was Maxslasher 26.
Hey Trey-
You gotta check out the 'looky look a new music thread'. Theres some old school, nu skool, sideways school all in there (even about 100 Motorhead vids from ...someone).
But, after I get home, Ill post some old ones that I remember watching over n over.
Including more Doro. Three Minute Warning!!!
Why do people cover songs just to cover them? Add your own signature flavor or abstain.Oh man, I just was in a store the other day and heard a version of Huey Lewis and the News's "Working for a Living." It took me a minute and a half for it to even register it was a cover.
The part that bugs me the most is the feeling that the reason it came about is that stations are so tightly formatted today, that if one classified as "Modern Country," or whatever it is, wants to play "Working for a Living," they can't until they have an official country band record it, even if the resulting recording sounds almost exactly like the one they can't play because it's not an official country band.
But probably I'm just bitter and paranoid because they've managed to kill off pretty much all the DJs, and at one point, I had thought of being one of them.
It's all corporate thinking. I was just mentioning Kenny Everett the other day. Without him, Bohemian Rhapsody may have never made a splash. Styx owes their careers to the DJ who (was paid payola to) forced Lady down the world's throat.
I miss the days of real DJs.
Got it. MaxSlasher's quote didn't end up totally gray when you replied to him.
But let's get back to the music. You know, I am saying to myself, "Well, how did I get here?"
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I was raised on MTvUK. Did England's finest ever make it across the pond? The runners-up? How about the OK or the somewhat tolerable? Or the dregs?
Edit - I almost forgot these guys. Best non-metal band of the 1980s, hands down.
I was raised on MTvUK. Did England's finest ever make it across the pond? The runners-up? How about the OK or the somewhat tolerable? Or the dregs?
Edit - I almost forgot these guys. Best non-metal band of the 1980s, hands down.
Hmm, don't recall seeing The Jam. Eurythmics, yeah, plenty of them. It's funny you post "The Reflex," because I loved the video version of the song, but the tempo always seemed wrong on the album. I still maintain that Nick Rhodes's work for early Duran Duran is vastly underrated, probably due to being so pop and the lyrics being, well, what they were. I don't remember seeing Bronski Beat, though I've liked them as long as I've known them. And Bros? First I've heard of them.
The The, I didn't encounter until the 90's, and it was not through MTV. I really like Jim Thirlwell's edit of Dogs of Lust.
Bros were huge for about a year - until it turned out that someone else did their vocals. 15-year old girls, to be more precise. They kinda fell of the musical map after that...
It worked for Bow Wow Wow.
This is driving me crazy... I'm stuck somewhere with no sound on the PC for a couple of hours. Will have some fun once I get home, though.
Great videos, Shiny. My girlfriend is a huge "Low Self Opinion" fan. We got to see him do one of his talks a couple of years ago. That was a fun night.
This is driving me crazy... I'm stuck somewhere with no sound on the PC for a couple of hours. Will have some fun once I get home, though.
But... what if the computer is working just fine and you're... deaf?!
I'm not deaf, you insensitive brutes, I'm... I'm...
a librarian
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Great videos, Shiny. My girlfriend is a huge "Low Self Opinion" fan. We got to see him do one of his talks a couple of years ago. That was a fun night.
I got to one of those Henry Rollins spoken word things, too. I've also been to one of Jello Biafra's talks.
I think I got more out of Henry Rollins. His stories were more down to earth - Biafra's was mostly a clever rant about political issues I was already aware of.
But then I always liked Jello's vocals better than Henry's.
I'm not deaf, you insensitive brutes, I'm... I'm...
a librarian
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Cheer you up with a little Mitch Hedberg.
I had a brief correspondence through email with him before he became a name. He will be missed.
Hey fellow librarian (though libraries around here are no longer quiet)-
Shiny is/was a librarian as well. Kickass!
We didnt get Mtv for a long time here in the Assembly of God buckle of the bible belt...sigh. But, I had a friend who could pick up Night Flight on USA channel and we would watch that. We also had NBCs "Friday Night Videos" and our local channel put together a half hour show after school that had some 'totally awesome' videos. And I had another friend who visited his dad in St Louis that would tape off Headbangers Ball and other stuff on the weekends he would visit up there.
Earliest things I remember are Madonna writhing around on a gondola and a b/w one of her getting taken in by a photographer and her spray painting on his car by accident.
I also remember the greater song, Time After Time. Still love this one! My sister got the LP and I still remember the title track "Shes So Unusual". PS: HATE all remakes of this one...Lauper's version is untouchable. Watched wrestling at the time and her attachment to those guys was AWESOME! Captain Lou!
I remember "Ghostbusters" and "Land Down Under"...but I liked the silly vids of Huey Lewis and the paranoid seriousness of "Who can it Be Now". PS Didnt realize the connection of Huey to the almighty Thin Lizzy till much later.
"Lady" and "Brickhouse" by the Commodores, Lipps "Funkytown" and Kool and the Gangs' "Celebration"...but it was their Misled and Emergency that I still listen to.
Steve Millers Abracadabra was EVERYWHERE one summer. Good God! and how about Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen (cant find the vid I remmber for it on youtube...had a crush on what she represented/gypsy, I guess) or Bonnie Tylers Total Eclipse of the Heart? Bruce Willis talked about it in Bandits, but it still works for me.
I remember The Eurythmics and Prince and his Lil Red Vette. INXS' Devil Inside and Fixx' One Thing Leads to Another...oh YEAH! Speaking of Yello Chk Chka-Chika.
Then there was Weird Al! Worshipped this guy.
Lost on Jeopardy
Eat It.
Jeez, I remember listening to a staticky FM station Sunday nights for the Doctor Demento Show. Still love that stuff! Saw his Al-tv too, when he took over Mtv for a couple hours and played cool stuff like the worst version of Bohemian Rhapsody ever Remember?
Journey and Boston had some stuff out in the beginning of the video age and here's Urgent by Foriegner.
Then METAL! Unashamedly love (most of) it! Still need a healthy dose of cheese most days. Like the first Poison album...the vid with Rikki falling down while drumming=AWESOME! "Look what the Cat Dragged In" was how I tried to live my life for a year or so (went to bed too late and got up too soon! my poor heads still spinnin from too much booze!). I bought the packaged metal rebellion just as much as the kids today swallow all the emo/goth rock. Chicks! Beer! Cars! Have a good time all of the time! YEAH!
These three bands started me down the merry trail to hell.
MOTLEY CRUE Too Young to Fall in Love...though I could put pretty much anything from the Shout at the Devil record on here. Like bits n pieces of the other albums (Live Wire/Kickstart/Wildside)
Twisted motherf$~$ing Sister I Wanna Rock!! Turn it loud Mutha! SMF! Damn, saw these guys in Oklahoma last summer and they rock like it was still 1985! Own pretty much everything they've done. You cant Stop Rock and Roll/Shoot 'em Down/Under the Blade/Love is for Suckers and the old chestnut Were Not Gonna Take It.
and Quiet Riot Mama Were All Crazee Now! Yeah, its a cover and they were really simple. But "Slick Black Cadillac" and "I wanna kiss yer lips, not the ones on yer face" were totally fun and pissed my mom off!!! And that friggin mask, EVERYBODY wanted to make one of those...for a while.
Found Jake E Lee n Ozzys Bark at the Moon (though I love "The Ultimate Sin" way more!)
George Lynch n Dokken's Breaking the Chains Try to escape that riff!
Akira Takasaki and Loudness' Crazy Night M! Z! A! What does that even mean? God, me and my friends used to make up our own lyrics to these masterpieces!
Warren DeMartini and Ratt's Round and Round If you were of a certain age, you were pretty much issued this cassette!
Speaking of EVERYBODY owning something, how about Steve Clark and Def Leppard's Foolin. Tried to draw that Pyromania cover...dont say you didnt!
Oonta Gleeben Glouten Globen
Remember ACDC, though no vids till much later "Ballbreaker" or "Who Made Who"? Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" seemed to be on every one of those video shows for a long time.
I have to mention the big ones (to me). I could write a book...too late... about each one of these bands, but Im getting tired.
Ronnie James Dio Last in Line Playing video games in HELL! YEAH!
Iron Maiden Two Minutes to Midnight It doesnt get ANY better than this!
KISS All Hells Breakin Loose Coulda put Lick It Up here with the weird yogurt/milk servin girls here, but Paul has a friggin fight with a chick skilled in two weapon fighting! And this just makes my day!
Man, I watched the 'unmasking' on Mtv...probably not live but within a week or so of it happening. AWESOME! Yeah, Vinnie looks really really weird here, but damn could he shred! It was the image of this band that got to me. Missed the heydey of the makeup years, but became obsessed with tracking down the various tchochkes and albums (own most of them in at least 3 formats).
VAN HALEN! Have you ever seen the video for "Jump"?!?! LOL! Naaaah, I gotta admit, I watched a million times back then, but its Hot For Teacher that still works on so many levels. EVH = god! Siddown Waldo! Tried to play along with those drums...dont say you didnt!
and Im going to go get something to eat!
Here's Rockwell and Somebodys Watching Me
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RUN DMC and Larry Bud Melman's King of Rock and Cameo and Levar Burton's Word Up
How about Lionel Richie's "Dancin on the Ceiling" and "Hello"/Stevie Wonder's "Lady in Red"/Herbie Hancocks "Rockit"?
Man I could go on...thanks for the Talking Heads and Eddie Grant mentions. NICE! What about Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of Dear Prudence or Art of Noise and Max Headroom's Paranoimia ?
Or Missing Persons Words or M with Pop Musik or Plasmatics and Wendy Williams blowing up a bus?
Or DEVO!?!? Jocko Homo/Workin in a Coal Mine/cover of Satisfaction/or that one hit...what was it called?
Did you get into the Alarm Stand or Dead or Alive You Spin Me Round or Big Country In a big Country or Dream Academy Life in a Northern Town
Well, that should help you get thru a few brews as you slip into a nostalgia-induced stupor, Trey!
Dude... AC/DC.
No discussion of metal can take place without mention those 4... errrr... 3 letters.
Plasmatics and Wendy Williams blowing up a bus?
God I miss the electric tape on her nipples (in concert).
Oh fudge. Joan Jett Do Ya Wanna Touch and Light of Day
and Pat Benatar Heartbreaker and You Better Run
and Blondie Rapture my first purchase with my own money!! and One Way or Another
Love all of them!
I'm down with everything you guys have posted, but I think I may have hopped onto MTV real early. Missed the Buggles splash, but I was in there before the end of the year.
Anybody remember Combonation? No, of course you don't. Combonation doesn't remember Combonation.
Or Tony Carey?
If anyone can tell me who sang that song, "You're walking on a fine, fine line... and it's gonna break sometime..." I will be in your debt. My head is full of these early video guys who never went on but ruled in their day at a time when the ailing music industries were about to go under to video games (PAC MAN and the like!)and needed something new to spark interest.
One of my favorite videos was Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel... though the You Tube version isn't smooth enough to do it justice.
Where else can you get dancing poultry?
Haha, Nomad blasted through a heap of videos on my list and a bunch I had forgotten about. Good show, man! Ah, memories.
Kruelly, yeah, AC/DC did it right.
Jade, I remember Tony Carey, but liked his Planet P side a little better.
Ok, any dandy highwaymen out there?
Thank you for Combonation! fun!
Here's Killer Dwarfs Stand Tall
and the one youve been waiting for Doro Pesch and Warlocks I Rule the Ruins! RAWK!
You get into Headpins or Saraya?
Man I sure cant figure out why I would've bought these cassettes...hmmm.
Ok, any dandy highwaymen out there?
I tried to be a dandy highwayman, but I was too much of a Goody Two Shoes.
It must be something inside.
Headpins, Adam and the Ants, yes.
And back to AC/DC: Bon Scott was great, but it's a tribute to the group that they survived his loss.
I started watching MTV in 1983... there was a lot of crap on, sure, but what a good time.
No such thing as a Jack on this thread. We do have a Donald Sutherland, though.
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Here are a couple great video from They Might Be Giant's latest album...I'm Impressed
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The Mesopotamians
A couple of others that always make me smile.
For those wanting a more blended flavor...The Gourds playing thier wonderful bluegrass interpretaton of Gin and Juice (NSFW)
And for a rock out closing It's...it's...it's...
Thank you for Combonation! fun!
Here's Killer Dwarfs Stand Tall
and the one youve been waiting for Doro Pesch and Warlocks I Rule the Ruins! RAWK!
You get into Headpins or Saraya?
Man I sure cant figure out why I would've bought these cassettes...hmmm.
I actually owned the Killer Dwarves album because I liked the video. It was so awash in FX you couldn't really hear actual music.
Love TMBG! Really impressed (arf!) with this record. Last one I obsessed over was Mink Car. Though I listen to the ABC one every once in a while. You been watching/listening to their craziness over on homestarrunner.com?
Just bought 4th row tix to see Weird Al this August! OH yeah!
Ive been trying to think of lyrics you got Rone. Only thing so far in my mind is Gene Simmons
I got nasty habits, it's a fine line, so many girls and so little time
When love rears its head, I wanna get on your case
Not even close to what yer talking about. Ill have to think more...Is it guitar based/electro pop/country folky/male/female/all of the above?
Since Trey talked about being a DJ:
RunDMC Peter Piper
Indeep Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Tom Pettys Last DJ
Love these songs! God, I wish there was a radio station that would play a mix like the above songs and follow it with T Bone Stankus "Existential Blues" (or even Part 2 of that song...)
or...even... Dead Puppies?
Yeah I know about Pandora, and have about 6 'stations' set up there. But wouldnt it be cool to follow Alice Coopers "Elected" with KMFDMs "Light" followed by Flogging Mollys "Whats Left of the Flag" followed by Zappas "Peaches en Regalia"? Or maybe thats just me...
The ultimate (so far, to me) in terms of cutting and DJ-ing is girltalk. Trying to figure out where each cut/sample comes from drives me up the wall as I listen to this cd while driving...love it!
OH yeah!
Hey guys, just had to move out of my other thread, okay if I hang here for a while? I've got some videos!
Lemme come with some obscure stuff and some not so obscure stuff:
Honeymoon Suite has a new girl now.
Nothing cooler than Squier rockin' The Stroke or Everybody Wants You
Cheese, but I've always remember the chorus hook.[url"http://youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU"]Nick Kershaw's[/url] Wouldn't it Be Good.
Howard Jone's What is Love?
Don't know how I got this far without mentioning these guys. What a great launch on this song.
Yeah, I just re-bought Squier's Don't Say No a couple of weeks ago. The grooves on songs like "In the Dark," what can you say...
Don't know how I got this far without mentioning these guys. What a great launch on this song.
Yeah, I just re-bought Squier's Don't Say No a couple of weeks ago. The grooves on songs like "In the Dark," what can you say...
Dark... ark... ark... ark...
Killer.
These dudes had pretty decent hair.
Don't know how I got this far without mentioning these guys. What a great launch on this song.
Yeah, I just re-bought Squier's Don't Say No a couple of weeks ago. The grooves on songs like "In the Dark," what can you say...
Dark... ark... ark... ark...
Killer.
HA HA HA HA !!!
That was going to be my post before I got all rock critic and revised it.