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The Buggles...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:51 am
by Skid_ro
Did anyone else see the first MTV music video? You know, the Buggles...Video Killed the Radio Star?

I remember 7th or 8th grade at my friends house waiting for the cable to start MTV. That was when they actually played music...and the guy on the moon...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:26 am
by British
Their other video "Plastic Age" is even weirder than Video Killed the Radio star.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:30 am
by schwenko
[quote]Originally posted by Skid_ro
[br]Did anyone else see the first MTV music video? You know, the Buggles...Video Killed the Rad

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:04 am
by oneno
which kind of leads into the early art of noise videos, they were bizzarre too.Close to the edit with the punk kid on the train tracks making the cutting motion with her hand and the dog eating a string of hot dogs and the brass ensemble cutting their hor

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:09 am
by 2Nu
Speaking of Bizarre
I REALLY miss the <a href="http://www.freedomofchoice.com/devo/songs.asp" target="blank">'Spud Boys'</a> vids they ran back in 81~84

Freedom Of Choice!
Whip It! (Of Course)
Peekaboo! har-har-har-har
Beautiful World!
Thats Good

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:51 am
by wallofboingo
You forgot to add Love Without Anger, which may be my favorite of their videos. Plus, Girl U Want & Through Being Cool.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:32 am
by Ollie Stench
Chuck Statler, the director of alot of DEVOs videos, comes into my workplace alot. We just made a compilation tape of a bunch of his videos; DEVO, Elvis Costello, Madness, Graham Parker, etc.

Chuck's a nice guy and really seems shocked at the awe and

PostPosted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:30 am
by British
He's in the twin cities? Hmm, I have a Devo DVD, would he autograf it?


[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
<br>Chuck Statl

PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:15 pm
by djsoss
yes i do remember, i was about 6 yrs. old in 1981. i was living in houston texas at that time (well i still live in houston now). but anyways back then we didn't have cable (MTV) but we had a local tv station named "HIT VIDEO U.S.A" witch was on channle

PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:34 pm
by Lazlo Nibble
[quote][i]Originally posted by British[/i]
<br>Their other video "Plastic Age" is even weirder than Video Killed the Radio star.
<hr heigh

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:50 am
by Sean
I have the following videos from the Buggles:

Adventures In Modern Recording
I Am A Camera
Plastic Age
Video Killed The Radio Star

Did they ever make videos for "Clean Clean"?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:59 am
by DevoManiac101
There were video's for "Clean Clean" and "Elstree" good luck trying to find them

Thanks, Justin/DevoManiac101

PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:26 am
by Sean
Wow, I would love to see the videos for Clean Clean and Elstree.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:40 pm
by YouGotSoul
my favorite DEVO jam was "Through Being Cool"

Did they ever have a song with the lyrics "Daddy's money" or something like that?