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As someone that didn't get to have cable TV as a kid, I missed out on MTV and seeing a lot of music vids, so I'm asking for a little help. Can anyone point me to specific examples of animation in early 80s music videos? The most obvious example is "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. I know the collective brain of the NWO can come up with more.

Thanks.

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Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love".

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DOH! THEE example I guess! Telex's Moskow Discow and New Order's original Blue Monday videos ('83 version, not the '87 redo) make use of a lot of dated computer imagery which perfectly date their place in time...that's kinda cool.

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<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
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DOH! THEE example I guess! Telex's Moskow Discow and New Order's original Blue Monday videos ('83 version, not the '87 redo) make use of a lot of dated computer imagery which perfectly date their place in time...that's kinda cool.
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The remix version of Moscow Discow that is; the normal version is, well normal. And much better. And available on the hub!

I'm casting a wide net here to include some that fall under various animated categories such as Claymation, Mechanical, Rotoscript, Quantel & misc CGI FX.

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ZZ Top - Rough Boy

John Fogerty - Zantz Can't Danz

Billy Joel - Pressure


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Aha - Take On Me

Devo - Have You Ever Been Experienced?

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Talking Heads - And She Was

The Cars - You Might Think




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Cyndi Lauper - She Bop had some animation.

Gary Numan's "Complex" video did the rotoscope thing five years before a-ha. Also, a-ha's "Train of Thought" is completely rotoscoped, and a nice video companion to "Take On Me".

Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen" was animated, I believe. I'm thinking that Icehouse's "We Can Get Together" was animated in a similar style, but I could be very wrong about that.

Thanks for all the great suggestions. A friend of mine is teaching a couple of stop-motion animation classes this summer and wanted to have a themed camp that went back to the 80s for inspiration. He'll be real grateful.

Don't Answer Me by The Alan Parsons Project had cool use of paper cut-out animation. Too bad its such a wonky song!

ELO's [i]Twilight[/i] has some Japanese anime set to it

How to Be A Millionaire by ABC was animated. Or, were you looking for stop-motion animation?

Canadian band [b]The Extras[/b] had a great animated video for their 1984 new wave hit "Can't Stand Still"