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I had a think about this because I had just recently listened to a song on my cd called 'Woodpeckers from Space' by The Videokids - it is very strange indeed.

Basically, everybody has heard a song(s) or seen a video that has made them think 'Bloody hell that's a bit daft'.

Send in your replies - everybody has a wierd song/video to share!

Cheers  :D
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I can promise whole heartedly I have never ever once heard a song and sid aloud or to myself "Thats a bit daft"  but, The Bonzo Dog Bands "My pink half of the drain pipe" made me say "That's a bit wierd"  :D

Peace,

Loren

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My nominees for strangest videos/ songs of the 80s are "Elvis is Everywhere" by Mojo Nixon and "Fish Heads" by Barnes & Barnes.
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I'm in TOTAL agreement Apple!!

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even though it's pretty well-known, I think Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is pretty nuts.. but one of the best videos ever :)

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Sledgehammer was definitely strange, and great. I've heard from friends that Gabriel's performance with Genesis in the 70's was also bizarre; he's like a master of disguises.

Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive" video had a strange scene where a stereotypical psychiatrist is doing word association with a patient on a couch. Both people have cubes instead of heads. An image would appear on the shrink's cube face and a corresponding image would appear on the patien's cube. That was strange, like Wow!

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I felt that 'She drives me crazy' and 'True Faith' by New Order were very similar videos. Someone convince me . . .
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Yeah, I felt that "She Drives Me Crazy" was a cheap knock-off of "True Faith." :)

Absolutely Vile

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Close to the edit/ Art of Noise


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My pick, too.  Not just bizarre, but difficult to look at.

~bloviator

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Hi Loren!

'That's a bit daft' and 'That's a bit wierd' are the same thing!  ;D

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Thanks for the English lesson!  On this side of the pond, people use "daft" -- if they use it at all -- to mean foolish or stupid.

Just wondering: is "Daft Punk" Crazy Weird Punk or Stupid Foolish Punk ???

~bloviator

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I didn't mean to patronise.  The English abuse the language something chronic!  ;)

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Mexican Radio by Wall Of Vodoo
 I like the part when a lid is taken off of a pot of beans and the guys head pops out of it.......
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  That was great! I didn't really like the song until I saw the video.

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I always thought Talking Heads "Burnin' Down The House" was a pretty weird video...
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I agree, but I thought their "Once In A Lifetime" video was even weirder.  :)

And one time a good friend of mine and I mimicked the jerking body movements from that vid while the song was playing at a classic rock bar we used to hang out at in '89 or so.  Pretty sad, eh?  :D

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My choice for strangest/most bizarre video from the 80's...

***Star Trekkin' by The Firm!!!***

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LOL! Yeah! 'Star Trekkin' by The Firm was, for me, one of the most memorable music videos of 1987.

If I remember correctly, 'Reet Petit' by Jackie Wilson had a video created in the same claymation medium. It was very poor compared to 'Star Trekkin' though.

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LOL! Yeah! 'Star Trekkin' by The Firm was, for me, one of the most memorable music videos of 1987.

If I remember correctly, 'Reet Petit' by Jackie Wilson had a video created in the same claymation medium. It was very poor compared to 'Star Trekkin' though.
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I couldn't tell you the name of the song but I recently saw an old Kim Carnes video on vh1classic that had a bunch of harlequinn-looking characters milling around and then she comes up out of a hole wearing a strange mask...most bizarre.
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that's from the song "bette davi's eyes"! i love that song and the video! if you think that one was bizarre, watch "Guilty" by Classix Noveaux! a ton of goth and new romantics dancing and dressed like in a custom ball... the singer a bald skinny guy with black lipstic and dark eyes, a pretty nosferatu wearing a bat cape! LOL

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Whip it by Devo is definately up there with most bizarre vids!  
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I second that emotion! Devo is a bizarre band with bizarre lyrics, clothes and videos! maybe that's why i like them so much, LOL

a bizarre video but mostly because it's so crappy and funny, is "It's raining men" by the Weather Girls. Now that's a video that makes me laugh so hard that give me cramps

Duran Duran's "All she wants is" always made me feel a bit confused... i like that video lots but it's so weird! I mean, they go around like dummies and all those artsy color effects, but the epic part is the end when the girl opens the fridge and inside looks like a sanctuary, full of saints and crosses... like it wasn't enough the guys appear holding a glass with a green drink (celery/cucumber? some crazy soda LOL) trying to give her, but she looks quite scared!

and then later she you just see the girl's silhouette in neon, sitting by the table reading the newspaper ( i guess) and eating a bowl of cereal...

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Visage's 'Fade to Grey' video spooked me out.
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I love that video!!!! it's great, the make-up Steve Strange was... so strange  :P
considering how old is the video and that maybe had a limited budget, the effects are nice. I like, specially all the make-up work. I was about to post my fave videos in another thread, but then i read someone mentioned fade to grey as the worst video ever or something, so i got a bit ashamed that my list may sound really really of a bad taste to many. Maybe another time. I like the bizarre stuff or even bad state HEHE

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the song "shrivel up" by devo.It was wierd when my mom would play the record when I was a little kid and it's STILL WIERD!Long live Devo
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your mom sound like mine!

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Most of Billy Idol's vids were pretty weird, especially "Dancing With Myself" and "White Wedding". "Girls on Film" By DD was way over the top.
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Billy Idol's videos were cool, maybe the clothes/fashion of the girls that make me like them so much! ZZ top's videos too, I don't like the music, but sure I watch these videos because of the girls, they are all absolutelly stunning! watch "legs", that's the coolest 80's fashion, IMO  8)

Girls on film uncensured is BIzarre. IT*S HOT!!!!!the sumo dressed girl and the hot guy that is her horse, it's the weirdest thing, heheh. The guy in the plastic pool... the girls in the mud... oh and them all wore those brazilian bikini tanga types! I miss those :(
*drools*

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wow, i like that video loads! the girls are really cool, the video and the song is weird. Very weird

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I didn't mean to patronise.  The English abuse the language something chronic!  ;)
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*phew* please everyone, forgive my english mistakes (grammar/spelling) because english is my 3rd language, my native language is portuguese, but i live in norway and speak norwegian all the time. My dreams are multilingual, it's a mess
apologies...

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*phew* please everyone, forgive my english mistakes (grammar/spelling) because english is my 3rd language, my native language is portuguese, but i live in norway and speak norwegian all the time. My dreams are multilingual, it's a mess
apologies...
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:o :o :oI would have to say "The Homecoming Queen has a Gun'---can't remember the artist's name,however.Cheeers! :o :o
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"The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" is by Julie Brown. Hilarious song!!! ;D You can also stick "'Cause I'm A Blonde" by her in as well! :D

I thought of a couple more bizarre songs. First, The Normal. "TVOD" and "Warm Leatherette." "Warm Leatherette" was the first single on Mute Records, and The Normal is actually Daniel Miller who is, and always has been the head of Mute, responsible for such wonderful bands as Depeche Mode, Erasure and ex-Depeche member Alan Wilder's project, Recoil.

Second, "Oh Yeah," "I Love You," "The Race" by Yello. Strange videos indeed.

Absolutely Vile (Music Geek)

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Ha! Ha! Digitales nothing is set in stone. If you like it that is fair enough. No one should criticize you for that - we only hold opinions.  ;)

As a footnote, I read in your earlier post that English is your third language. You are doing well, girl! French is my second language and I'm hopeless at it - well done!

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As a footnote, I read in your earlier post that English is your third language. You are doing well, girl! French is my second language and I'm hopeless at it - well done!
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hehe thanks you are a sweatheart!
take care  :-*

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hehe thanks you are a sweatheart!
take care  :-*
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ooops spellchecker, SWEETHEART!
i need to re-read before i post ::)

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i need to re-read before i post ::)
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LOL!  ;D

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:o  You Might Think was really weird!!!!   Video and song....by the Cars!!!
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I thought that was a great song.  :)

I remember a Radiohead song (I don't know the title) that had a strange video in the 90s. It involved this guy lying on the pavement and these people were interrogating him to get up, enquiring why he was lying there. He tells everybody eventually and at the end, they are all lying in the road. Quite strange.

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That song was "Just".
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Thanks for that. What was the video supposed to be about?

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How about Malcolm Maclearn's(sp) Madamme Butterfly

When I first got Much Music (Canada) it played quite often since it had skinny model types in lingerie wandering around a bath house I think it was.
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I remember listening to Malcolm Mclaren's 'Madam Butterfly' -yeuh! I preferred 'Double Dutch' which has a great beat. The video was a bit boring (showing girls dancing to skipping ropes). Did he do the original 'Buffalo Stance' which was covered by Neneh Cherry?

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No, but Neneh Cherry did sample Mc Laren's "Buffalo Gals".