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by **2Nu** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 10:31 pm

All great choices folks,
I wish to add the following
For(pre-'85) video I have to give a nod to the 'Spud Boys' for their cartoonish 50's - 60's style video of "Are You Experienced?" and "Thats Good"
(Luv the TV color test pattern backdrop bars sequencing to that frenetic synth beat)[:D]
Also to the Talking Heads for 1986's "And She Was"[;)]

P.S. Fascinating interview with Mark Mothersbaugh courtesy of Henpeck [^]

http://www.ostrichink.com/feb2004/mothersbaugh.html

by **dead_irony@yahoo.com** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:19 am

I was barely 9 when we first got MTV and cable TV in 1982. I was obsessed with four videos:
"Whip It" Devo
"Rock the Casbah" The Clash
"Black Coffee in Bed" The Squeeze
"Vacation" The Go-Gos

by **ExRat** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:11 am

My favorite video was always the Eurythmic's "Love is a Stranger". Annie in wigs and bondage gear! Annie as a robotic male chauffeur! "Here Comes The Rain Again" was also a good video - Annie wondering through the Scottish moors with a lantern....what the hell was she looking for anyway?

by **DearGod** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:15 am

soft cell's ------ sex dwarf

by **DearGod** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:17 am

ummmmmm i also greatly enjoyed thomas dolby's videos and madness's and the eurythmics ones too.....

the madness ones were comical as were dolby's

end the eurythmic ones were very transgendered and erotic

by **DearGod** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 12:21 am

tom tom club's -genius of love
george clinton's- atomic dog
Prince's- 1999
Bronski Beat- why
Blancmage- living on the ceiling
hayzee fantazee- shiny
haircut 100- love plus one

by **Glen** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:37 am

I always liked Real Life's "Send Me an Angel" video. They are still making music and it's pretty good...http://reallifemusic.net/

For you Generation X/Billy Idol fans, I bought the Generation X anthology and it's great!

by **Momotaro** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:24 pm

My favorite video was The Specials "Ghost Town". In typical MTV fashion, it only appeared a few times.

Funny to see Blancmange videos mentioned. I just got done watching my Blacmange 7" laserdisc!

by **ExRat** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:24 am

I also always like those Shelleyan Orphan videos. Really lovely looking, of course I haven't seen them in years so I can't say if they've endured with age.

by **the_moth** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 3:03 am

One of the best definitely is the vid "Men without Hats- Safety Dance"
-all the weirdos, freaks and nerds dancing in a roundel, dressed up like in the middle age.

Another good one is "Midge Ure- If I was" -pretty spartanic but a nice precomputer animation

by **uofsc93** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:14 am

Ashes to Ashes - by Bowie. I haven't seen it since the 80's and I still remember it well.

by **Sean** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:22 am

Ashes to Ashes is an awesome video. I love all of those cool looking people that walk along with David Bowie. They kind of look like New Romantics but I don't think they were. Bowie makes some of the best of the videos but he also makes some really bad ones. I can't stand "China Girl" and "Let's Dance".

by **ExRat** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:29 am

Actually Sean, those people were New Romantics. One of the 'nuns' in the Ashes to Ashes video was none other than London club-kid and Visage frontman Steve Strange.

by **Sean** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:39 am

That is cool. I like the video even better now knowing that they were actually New Romantics.

Anyone know of any really good books about New Romantics with a lot of pictures in there? I think I saw one for sale in the UK but not sure if it's good.

by **Dave** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:35 am

[quote]Originally posted by ExRat
[br]Actually Sean, those people were New Romantics. One of the 'nuns' in the Ashes to Ashes video was none other than London club-kid and Visage frontman Steve Strange.
[/quote]

Wasn't Alan Hunter, one of the original MTV VJ's, in that video too? I have a vague recollection of him being in a couple of scenes.

Nope, I was wrong - he was in "Fashion"... turn to the left

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