Best New Wave video

[WoodlandParkPunk]

What about Cyndi Laupers "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"? "I Ran" by F.O.S.

[skinnytie]

"Monster" by Fred Schneider was one of my favorites.

[oneno]

Disapointed-PIL
Close (To the edit)-Art of Noise
Bauhaus-Bela Lagosis'Dead
the Ocean Blue-Between something and nothing
Adrian Belew-Pretty Pink Rose (featuring david bowie)
Front 242-Tradgedy for you
Killing Joke-80's
Human League-Fascination
Manufacture-As the end draws near
Tom Tom Club-Genious of love....

[jimbailey]

Favorite 1980s Videos

1. "Ashes To Ashes"-David Bowie
2. "Down Under"-Men At Work
3. "Overkill"-Men At Work
4. "Don't Dream It's Over"-Crowded House
5. "Better Be Home Soon"-Crowded House
6. "I Melt With You"-Modern English
7. "The One Thing"-INXS
8. "Games Without Frontiers"-Peter Gabriel
9. "Dancing With Myself"-Billy Idol
10. "Send Me An Angel"-Real Life
11. "One Thing Leads To Another"-The Fixx
12. "Saved By Zero"-The Fixx
13. "Dancing In Berlin"-Berlin
14. "The Metro"-Berlin
15. "Now It's My Turn"-Berlin
16. "Goodbye To You"-Scandal
17. "Hungry Like The Wolf"-Duran Duran
18. "Mexican Radio"-Wall Of Voodoo
19. "In A Big Country"-Big Country
20. "If You Want My Love"-Cheap Trick
21. "She Drives Me Crazy"-Fine Young Cannibals
22. "Heart And Soul"-T'Pau
23. "No New Tale To Tell"-Love and Rockets
24. "The Stand"-The Alarm
25. "Two Hearts Beat As One"-U2

[jimbailey]

[quote]Originally posted by Sean
[br]I also love the following videos:

Hunting High & Low - A-ha
The Different Story - Peter Schilling
Hands To Heaven - Breathe

Sean
[/quote]

The A-ha video is great. I don't remember The Different Story..do remember the "Major Tom" video...there was a video for "Hands To Heaven"?

[Sean]

The Different Story video is really cool. It's got Peter Schilling dressed in that outfit that he wore for his "best of" cd. He's riding around in a horse a lot of the times and there's a beautiful girl that dances around and sings the female part. An old man appears once in awhile too. Pretty interesting video.

The Hands To Heaven video is the perfect video for that song. There's an angelic looking girl dancing all around this room while it looks like he's singing to her. I don't know but I guess I like videos with pretty girls dancing around in them.

Sean

[schwenko]

[quote]Originally posted by Sean
[br]The Different Story video is really cool. It's got Peter Schilling dressed in that outfit that he wore for his "best of" cd. He's riding around in a horse a lot of the times and there's a beautiful girl that dances around and sings the female part. An old man appears once in awhile too. Pretty interesting video.
[/quote]

Would the beautiful girl be Sandra?

[fritzb]

It's certainly possible that the beautiful girl would be Sandra. The song was produced by Sandra's husband Michael Cretu (aka Enigma).

[Panorama]

Here is a short list of new wave videos I remember fondly from the early days of MTV (I've got a lot of other videos I'd like to get on a compilation dvd too)

A-Ha - Take on Me
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran - Rio
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded me with Science
Icehouse - We can get together
Madness - Our House
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Modern English - I Melt With You
Squeeze - Black Coffee In Bed
U2 - New Years Day

[wallofboingo]

My vote goes to Devo's "Beautiful World" video. These poor saps were so ahead of their time with visuals being integrated with the music that the rest of the music world is still trying to play catch up. Just a brilliant video that understands the ever important concept that music videos are supposed to be visual interpretations of the songs message.

[devildog]

Saved By Zero-The Fixx
Why Me-Planet P Project
Who's Behind The Door?-Zebra
She's A Beauty-The Tubes
Don't Come Around Here No More-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
Nightmares-A Flock of Seagulls
West End Girls-Pet Shop Boys
She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby

[Sean]

[quote]Originally posted by schwenko
[br][quote]Originally posted by Sean
[br]The Different Story video is really cool. It's got Peter Schilling dressed in that outfit that he wore for his "best of" cd. He's riding around in a horse a lot of the times and there's a beautiful girl that dances around and sings the female part. An old man appears once in awhile too. Pretty interesting video.
[/quote]

Would the beautiful girl be Sandra?
[/quote]

It's not Sandra but this girl is just as cute.

Sean

[callie]

The best videos during the 1980's were the new wave videos some of my favorites were Take on Me, Tainted Love, and a couple of Duran Duran videos

[christsmasher]

I'll second Love is a Stranger, man, that's one classy ass video. One of my all time favorites.

Anyone who's got the Devo DVD can attest that they made some kickass videos. My favorite is "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Suprise".

Duran Duran, it's gotta be The Chauffeur, without a doubt, but Planet Earth just so embodies the New Romantic moment.

I was watching the video for Mad World the other day, and very much enjoying it, although my old man was laughing at me the whole time when I jumped up and danced along in the New Romantic style...lol.

[dcs84]

There are three videos that come to mind as absolute classics, suave and stylistic, Zoot suits and rag ribbons, they are:

The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (The first song about AIDS, could anyone tell, except perhaps from Dr Roberts Camp moves.)

Morrissey - Suedehead (in one part he's down on his haunches reading the 'little Prince' for chrisakes.)

Robert DeNiros Waiting - Bananarama (Film noir stylings on a popcorn, bubblegum classic).