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  1. Same here, never saw Femmes videos on MTV.  I knew about them from my "indie rock" friends, you know the kind of folks that decided they hated a band the moment anyone had actually heard of them?  I guess they were hipster pioneers or something?  Anyway, obviously once anyone else had heard of the Femmes, they abandoned them for Skinny Puppy or somesuch.

     

    Now here's a video that I'm surprised hasn't already been mentioned (or maybe I missed it?).  It was absolutely in about an hourly rotation in the very earliest days of MTV:

     

     

  2. 1 hour ago, Texas007 said:

    "Hey Mickey" is just one of those songs where the video is the first thing I think of when I hear it.

    Another prime example...

     

    Cradle of Love also, but I'm trying to follow the rules

     

     

    Cradle of Love is another example of a "girl in music video I fell in love with."  But yeah, rules. 

     

  3. 2 hours ago, The Chrisser said:

    I love Brotherton's.  Just had lunch there today.  The brisket is consistently great, sausage is very good.  Ribs have been hit or miss for me.  Sometimes they are like meat candy, other times they run a little dry.

    They do a ton of sammiches that are incredible as well. The brisket grilled cheese is a standout.

    Word up, Brotherton's is really good.

    Brisket banh mi too, IMO.

     

     

  4. Asia was cool because they usually tried to do something original in their videos.  Think of how much tougher it must have been in 1983 to create the visual effects of those ever-changing TV monitors.

    I liked the Raiders theme in Don't Cry, too.

     

     

  5. 1 minute ago, South Austin said:

    I loathed it. Robert Palmer is one of the most mediocre songwriters in music history.

    Might as well face it? :)

     

    And I'll readily admit that eye candy in a video went a long way toward appeasing my 14-year-old self even if I disliked the song.

  6. As much as I love hair metal songs, it's sort of hard for me to pick a favorite video.  A lot of them were mostly concert footage.  And in this thread, I'm trying to pick the videos I found most interesting, rather than the songs themselves.

     

    This one is also mostly (staged) concert footage, but it also features some pretty iconic 80s music video scene.s Not my favorite song by the band, but probably their best known video:

     

     

     

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  7. 35 minutes ago, davidg said:

    Two words: Tania Coleridge                     

     

    Yup, she'll do. 

     

    Although I'd forgotten the creepy stalker and almost rapey portions of that video.  Not sure it could be made in a #metoo world.

  8. I remember being mesmerized by the stop-motion fruits in Sledgehammer.  And the Ronald Reagan puppet in Land Of Confusion. :)

    And Thriller was a mega blockbuster, it really changed the way people approached making music videos.  But I had another favorite on that album, because I was intrigued by the sidewalk squares that lit up as he danced on them.  In later years as an electrical engineering student, I recreated that sidewalk effect with pressure switches and (very expensive) LEDs.

     

     

     

     

  9. Could it be an 80s music video discussion without Prince?  No, it could not.

    The Purple Rain album was an all-timer and, well, there was also a movie attached to it.  The song "Purple Rain" is one of my all favorites and it's not JUST because I figured out before the junior high dance that it was 8 minutes long and if I could somehow manage to trap my 8th grade crush into dancing with me for the entirety of that song, I'd get to be close to her for an extraordinarily long time.  No, it wasn't about that at all.

    But that's not the video I'm going to post because quite frankly it's 8 minutes long and the last 4 minutes or so are pretty tedious and boring.  Here's the really COOL song from that album:

     

     

     

  10. So, with an unashamed admission that I truly love 80s hair metal, I'll go ahead and post up one of my favorite 80s videos NOT from that genre, but instead a super-poppy video, which also happens to be one of the most famous music videos of all time.  I loved the song then, and still do.  For some reason recently, I stumbled over this on Youtube with my kids (ages 8 and 10) and they really loved it as well.  I guess it's timeless.

     

     

     

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  11. Video killed the radio star, that's what The Buggles told us.  And although Home Box Office primed the pump with Video Jukebox in 1981, MTV quickly supplanted HBO and became the premier source of music video entertainment.    Later we'd be labeled "Generation X" but my older brother and I had an earlier, simpler name for our generation-- we called ourselves the "Early MTV Generation" because we were in the prime years where the original MTV was targeted directly for us.

    Like almost everyone else my age, I was completely engaged in the videos MTV chose to show us from 1981 to about 1994.  What fascinates me so much is that individuals and groups that might not have been noticed for their musical talent in the previous decade or two, were suddenly making it big based largely on physical appearance and presentation.  You could realistically and perhaps cynically label that as an 80s "form over substance" obsession and that wouldn't be entirely wrong, but I also think it unfairly overlooks the single most attractive thing about the era-- the music didn't have to change the world, it was  focused on being fun.  And the videos followed suit.

    Anyway, I couldn't possibly name a favorite or even a top 10 or 20 videos, but I'll go ahead and post a few that I like, to start.  If anyone else is interested, I'd love to see your favorites as well. 

     

    There are thousands of choices for the super-popular ones, and I probably like 82% of them.  But I'll go ahead and start with one that to me is very interesting, and not as popular as a lot of others at the time.  In the early 80s, post-apocalyptic fantasies were big sellers.  It was perhaps the peak of the Cold War and and tensions were high.  Tom Petty apparently liked Mad Max and provided this gem:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    Tuned in for about 5 minutes of this, saw 80% of the crowd over 30 and wearing jerseys and knew that this was a good chance for some gene cleansing. 

    But are they TAILORED jerseys?

  13. 25 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    A team would not survive overseas in an American sport. 

    How 'bout they move the Giants, Eagles, and Redskins all overseas?  I'd be down with that.   😉

  14. Perhaps he's confused because the females in many other species are also called cows.  Camels, crocodiles, elephants, elk, giraffes, termites, walruses, whales...

     

    But you know, they're all still females, so...

  15. 37 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    AFC South: 

    Houston, Nashville, Indianapolis, Miami....

     

    Well it's not like London has a lot in common with Houston, Indianapolis, or Nashville either. :)

     

    Shoe-horning a London franchise into the USA's National Football League could certainly precipitate further oddities down the line.

  16. Just now, DigDug said:

    I think the league would have to look into block scheduling for them.  3 games at home, then 3 on the road..etc..or something like that.

    And set up a good locale in the states for them to stay and train on the American block weeks.

    Yup, all of that.  And work in their bye week in a thoughtful manner as well, to help with the travel.

     

    Also, some divisional realignment would really help.  Wishful thinking because it would break up some pretty good existing rivalries, but an ideal place for them could be in the AFC East, instead of Miami.  Then their divisional road games would all be East Coast trips to New York and Boston.

     

     

     

     

  17. Alright, I've figured out how to make EVERYONE happy.  

    Go ahead and bowl the entire South Endzone, with all luxury suites or whatever's deemed necessary, but make it tie in architecturally to the NEZ and eastside grandstands.

    Then, put a jumbotron in the SW corner that has a video image of the Capitol and downtown.  Everyone gets their wish, and the inevitable ads that the athletic department would run on that video board, could be done in the form of superimposed image of an airplane flying a banner for Rudy's or Taco Bell or Academy or whatever.

     

    Simple.  Elegant.

     

    You're welcome.

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