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Subject: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Here's some of the most hilarious videos from the 1980's:
David Lee Roth "Just A Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody"
David Lee Roth "Yankee Rose"
Neil Young "This Note's For You"
Beastie Boys "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)"
Beastie Boys "No Sleep Till Brooklyn"
Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies"
Devo "Girl U Want"
Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince "Parents Just Don't Understand"
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Eat It"
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Like A Surgeon"
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Dare To Be Stupid"
Colin Quinn "Going Back To Brooklyn"
Ramones "Rock N' Roll High School"
Motley Crue "Smoking In The Boys' Room"
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
I know these videos probably weren't MEANT to be funny at the time, but
-anything with MC Hammer in those silly pants of his
-Arcadia's Election Day (high priced video - where some of the dramatic moments include the passing of a token and one band member bangining a fist on a piece of glass for dramatic impact :-*)
-Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (especially if you consider what the song was about)
-EBN OZN - AEIOU Sometimes Y (for the attitude)
-anything by Information Society ('cause it's hard to tell if they're having fun or if they're taking themselves too seriously)
-Men w/o Hats' Safety Dance (fun, silly and about nuclear war - but you'd never know it)
-Rick Springfield - Human Touch and Bop Til You Drop (talk about taking the future/space-suit/cryogenic suspension/everything-the-the-future-will-be-made-of-tin-foil concept too far)
And a few that were actually meant to be funny:
-Ray Parker Junior's Ghostbusters. The cameos were fun and the video was clearly intended to be fun itself.... ;D
-Run DMC and Aerosmith - Walk This Way (who woulda thunk that rock and rap could be so funny)
-Sam Kinison's Wild Thing (what ISN'T he making fun of in this video?)
-Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back (okay - now only the black folks could get away with a song about fat butts and have it be such a big hit!)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
WEATHER GIRLS - "it's raining men"
to me it's hysterically funny LMAO
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN - "physical"
is kinda funny too, it has the intention at least
I like Information Society... their videos were funny and cool! love their latest stuff too
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
ELTON JOHN - "I'm still standing"
to me is really funny, i guess it's the fashion heheh
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
I like the synthesizer in this song, what do you think it was about?
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I know these videos probably weren't MEANT to be funny at the time, but
-Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (especially if you consider what the song was about)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
How about...
- Stutter Rap (Morris Minor & The Majors)
- Anything by "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Didn't You Kill My Brother? (Alexei Sayle)
- Living Doll (Cliff Richard & The Young Ones)
- Leave In Silence (Depeche Mode)
- The Meaning Of Love (Depeche Mode)
- They Don't Know About Us (Tracey Ullman)
- Prince Charming (Adam & The Ants)
- Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant)
- Whip It (Devo)
- Jocko Homo (Devo)
- Why Can't I Be You? (The Cure)
- Land Of Confusion (Genesis)
- No New Tale To Tell (Love & Rockets)
- Yin And Yang And The Flowerpot Men (Love & Rockets)
- Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls)
- Take A Chance On Me (Erasure)
- Star Trekkin' (The Firm)
- Doctorin' The Tardis (The Timelords)
- Song For Whoever (The Beautiful South)
- Happy Hour (The Housemartins)
- Rock Me Amadeus (Falco)
- Der Kommissar (Falco)
- Obsession (Animotion)
- Paranoimia (Art Of Noise featuring Max Headroom)
- Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland (The B-52's)
- Get The Balance Right (Depeche Mode)
- She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
- True Faith (New Order)
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Wham!)
- Bad Boys (Wham!)
- Wham Rap! (Wham!)
- Life In One Day (Howard Jones)
- Punk Rock Girl (Dead Milkmen)
- Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child (Mojo Nixon)
- Fish Heads (Barnes & Barnes)
- The Riddle (Nik Kershaw)
- Once In A Lifetime (Talking Heads)
- Talking Loud And Clear (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)
- Ça Plane Pour Moi (Plastic Bertrand)
- Somebody's Watching Me (Rockwell)
- Da Da Da (Trio)
- Spirit In The Sky (Doctor & The Medics)
- Laid (James)
- Help! (Bananarama & Lananeeneenoonoo)
- Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Split Enz)
- I Got You (Split Enz)
- Waiting For The Nightboat (Duran Duran)
- Chocolate Cake (Crowded House)
- Don't Go (Yazoo)
- Love Missile F1-11 (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
- Turning Japanese (The Vapours)
- Love Plus One (Haircut One Hundred)
- Our House (Madness)
- One Step Beyond (Madness)
- Buffalo Gals (Malcolm McLaren)
- Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
- See You (Depeche Mode)
- Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
- Big Time (Peter Gabriel)
- The War Song (Culture Club)
;D
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
The UHF Music Video By "Weird Al" Yankovic, it isn't a parody,
but they parody a lot of music videos in it.
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
The Clash's cover of Der Komissar is funny only cause of that cute little armadillo ::)
Cars videos.....the real early ones were soooo cheesy ;D
Most early videos were cheesy but some were xtra bad like
Goodbye To You by Scandal and Separate Ways by Journey.All the stuff that looks like it was done at home ::)
See how dumb I am when I first wake up? ::)
That was supposed to be the Clash's Rock The Casbah..d'uh ::)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Be Good Johnny was pretty funny, but sorta cheesy.
Pretty Woman by Van Halen was sorta gross, but still funny! ;D
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
'I.O.U' by Freez.
This video featured at the heart of the breakdancing scene and it was so seriously funny. The funniest parts is the self-conscious little child in a blue shirt doing body-popping and the black guy pointing displaying a wierd expression on his face at the end of the video.
I think 'Starmaker' by the kids of Fame was another that showed so much sickly sentimentality, it was just so hilarious!
Me and my mate were absolutely creased up by them. ;D
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Huey Lewis and the News had some pretty funny video's...
And the Canadians amongst us will remember the Northern Pikes video for "She Ain't Pretty (She Just Looks That Way)...that was pretty funny too..
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
What about Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin?
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
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And the Canadians amongst us will remember the Northern Pikes video for "She Ain't Pretty (She Just Looks That Way)...that was pretty funny too..
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And don't forget "Teenland," too...:)
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
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The Clash's cover of Der Komissar is funny only cause of that cute little armadillo ::)
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I believe you might be thinking of the video for "Rock The Casbah." There was an armadillo in that, and The Clash never covered "Der Kommissar." After The Fire did, though. They did it in English. Badly.
Absolutely Vile (Music Geek)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Hence the correction.I am your basic dumb blonde sometimes ::)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
One of the most brilliantly funny clips of the time was the one the Spitting Image puppetteers made for Genesis "and Of Confusion" - its an all time fave for me.
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Quoting:
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Eat It"
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Like A Surgeon"
"Weird Al" Yankovic "Dare To Be Stupid"
Colin Quinn "Going Back To Brooklyn"
Ramones "Rock N' Roll High School"
Motley Crue "Smoking In The Boys' Room"
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I didn't know there was a video for Like a Surgeon! I must see that.
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Quoting:
- Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant)
- Whip It (Devo)
- Jocko Homo (Devo)
- Why Can't I Be You? (The Cure)
- Obsession (Animotion)
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I'm surprised Devo even did videos. Got to love them lampshadey hats, did the fans really wear those in public? :)
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
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I'm surprised Devo even did videos. Got to love them lampshadey hats, did the fans really wear those in public? :)
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Yep! And funky looking sunglasses and rubbish bags! (By the way, I was not one of them.) :D
I just thought of another video, since BrianMannixGirl jogged my memory of Spitting Image...
"The Chicken Song!!!" Remember that one?? Hilarious! ;D
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
If you're talking about what i think you are talking about that song is bloody annoying. Almost as much so as Agadoo (how do you spell that?).
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
"Voices Carry"--Annie Lennox.
It's funny at the end when she's sitting in a theater audience, and starts to sing out.
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
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"Voices Carry"--Annie Lennox.
It's funny at the end when she's sitting in a theater audience, and starts to sing out.
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"Voices Carry" was from 'Til Tuesday.
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
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If you're talking about what i think you are talking about that song is bloody annoying. Almost as much so as Agadoo (how do you spell that?).
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Yeah, you're probably thinking of the right one. It's the one that goes:
Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
etc...etc...
I find "Agadoo" more annoying. :D
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Quoting:
"Voices Carry"--Annie Lennox.
It's funny at the end when she's sitting in a theater audience, and starts to sing out.
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"Voices Carry" (actually by 'Til Tuesday...Annie Lennox' hair was never that big :D) is a song about domestic abuse and the video reflects that brilliantly with Aimee Mann (the singer) in the role as the victim. The scene of which you speak is at the point where Aimee has had enough of being who her boyfriend wants her to be (a refined debutante or somesuch), and of his abuse that she cracks. She rips of her hat revealing her punkish hairstyle and starts shouting "He said shut up! He said shut up! Oh God can't you keep it down" etc. A very powerful statement I think. She's had enough and wants to take back her own life and be who she wants to be. I found it very moving.
Take it however you wish though. This is just my opinion. :)
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: The funniest music videos from the 1980's
Hang on! I liked 'The Chicken Song' by Spitting Image and 'Agadoo' by Black Lace .