# 70s music video clips: a compendium of the cheesiest and greatest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178 "2009-04-06T22:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/21 "2009-04-08T05:37:32Z")
What horrid videos! My gosh, how could people back then stand it?! I mean, the edits and cuts last wayyy more than a second each! For all you funkateers out there, I give you some [Cosmic Slop](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp4pgMOugbo). (though I can’t find any time-relevant vids, I **must** give a shout to [Betty Davis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTt1biOZX4). Not Bette (the actress), but the Queen of [f.u.n.k.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsSIoBcTt8) When’s the last time you had a real good, spine-shivering eargasm? Spend some time with Ms. Davis. You’ll thank me.) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/22 "2009-04-08T05:41:45Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I have to thank the OP - I got started on a wonderful ride through some great videos. I found Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs on David Letterman with Foggy Mountain Breakdown, … I have a vague memory of that - got link? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/23 "2009-04-08T06:00:47Z")
I’m not sure how to take this thread. I entered high school in the fall of 1969, so the '70’s (high school, college, and immediately thereafter) were pretty much my era. But I may not have been very hip, because most of this stuff is incredibly cheesy to me. Actually, I probably never saw the visual interpretations of the music associated with them. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/24 "2009-04-08T07:09:33Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > The David Bowie collection, specifically [DJ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwJpi3Dtmw), [Look Back in Anger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJjASV20kc), and [Boys Keep Swinging](http://www.videocure.com/music-videos/d/27db600b408814bac570d2fa2993f79b.html). I’m looking at Bowie, but he keeps reminding me of a young Holland Taylor. [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2092210432/nm0852466](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2092210432/nm0852466) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/25 "2009-04-08T07:25:08Z")
[Am I that Easy to Forget?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROkFbJVp_vQ) [Dirty, Sweet, Clad in Black, Diamond Hubcap Halo.](http://www.videosurf.com/video/t-rex-get-it-on-totp-63455248) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/26 "2009-04-08T07:35:46Z")
I’m strangely partial to [Wings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9QVN0bpa4). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/27 "2009-04-08T07:42:13Z")
[Livin’ thing.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFM0pYyUcY) Most every thing looked like this in those days…crazy bespectacled stoners with big fros hair and string sections of polyester. That is my nightmare and Geist. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/28 "2009-04-08T07:50:18Z")
I challenge you to find something from the 70’s that isn’t very hairy. There’s a big 70’s hair backlash going on right now… it’s almost a puritanical hair thing, heavy societal shift in pilomorays. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/29 "2009-04-08T07:54:37Z")
[Let’s hear it for Freddie and the gang!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI) (Actually, I think it holds up pretty well). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/30 "2009-04-08T08:07:38Z")
[JCSS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YPDXmEsQtQ) [Ode to Billy joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc)… the lifeless set and mannequin diorama in this particular version is _quite disturbing_ ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/31 "2009-04-08T08:29:12Z")
[Jolene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plvBR02wDs&feature=PlayList&p=AB34E43F45508EEF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=42)…Lot’s of electric mauve here…very psychedelic country. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/32 "2009-04-08T13:51:12Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > [JCSS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YPDXmEsQtQ) > [Ode to Billy joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc).. the lifeless set and mannequin diorama in this particular version is _quite disturbing_ Gotta throw the flag here. _Ode to Billy Joe_ is from 1967. Great clip, though. Here are some: [Boogie Nights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-V9P03APl4) - Heatwave [I Want You Back](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYgf_Cl59o&feature=related) -Jackson 5 (special guest appearance by Bill Cosby) [Hole in the Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSCPcJ8jpg&feature=related) - Black Sabbath (Ozzy, man) If anyone has wondered what punk rock was rebelling against in the 70s, this thread ought to give you a good clue. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/33 "2009-04-08T14:40:20Z")
You’re sixteen. And you’re beautiful. And you’re [cheesy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76O6tuJPe3w&feature=PlayList&p=FE534D0055121DBA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=49). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/34 "2009-04-08T15:17:17Z")
[Reelin’ In the Years](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ItqbXe5JE) - Steely Dan (with another special appearance by Bill Cosby!) [Bang a Gong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uueO8BQGLDo&feature=related) - T Rex [Love Is Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc7XJRDD74) - Gary Wright (More cowbell!) How could we forget _these_ guys: [Come Sail Away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARLfUmyBJA) - Styx ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/35 "2009-04-08T15:25:00Z")
[Do Ya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwFssgvsC0&feature=related) - Electric Light Orchestra (with exciting new laser technology!) [You Sexy Thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6QsIL_CXCM) - Hot Chocolate ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/36 "2009-04-08T15:40:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Marshall Tucker = Good! > > Try some lip sync’d [Sonny and Cher.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU10TZs1ow0) I’d forgotten what a force of nature her hair was. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/37 "2009-04-08T15:55:11Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > [Do Ya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwFssgvsC0&feature=related) - Electric Light Orchestra (with exciting new laser technology!) Wow…a rare glimpse of Jeff Lynne’s eyes!! (He almost always wears dark glasses) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/38 "2009-04-08T16:07:30Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [Let’s hear it for Freddie and the gang!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI) > (Actually, I think it holds up pretty well). In the 70s, Queen was one of the few first bands that really did music videos (rather than just a video of the band standing on stage, performing or lip-synching). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/39 "2009-04-08T16:19:06Z")
[More Than a Feeling](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsVPis1iNs) - Boston ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178/40 "2009-04-08T16:42:36Z")
No Cliff Richard? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosCYE4vwlY) (I always loved this song) Is it any wonder bands initially resisted the video age? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-music-video-clips-a-compendium-of-the-cheesiest-and-greatest/492178.md?page=3)