# Help ID this '80s music video

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 27, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838 "2005-08-27T05:04:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/1 "2005-08-27T05:04:53Z")

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Today a buddy and I were talking about '80s music. Besides taking 20 minutes to name three Hall and Oates songs (we came up with “Private Eyes” and “Maneater” right away, took awhile before we remembered “Kiss On My List”), we had another song we couldn’t remember.

There was a video that came out I’m guessing in '84 or so with a guy in a “Road Warrior”-esque post-apocalyptic desert. He was on a motorcycle with a side hack and came upon an old tent in said desert. Inside the tent was assorted cobweb-encrusted electronic equipment. The equipment started up and IIRC video of the band singing the song played on the monitors. He left the tent at the end of the song.

Any idea what song was this video for?

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/2 "2005-08-27T05:11:38Z")

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -You Got Lucky

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/3 "2005-08-27T05:12:21Z")

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: “You Got Lucky.”

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/4 "2005-08-27T05:13:45Z")

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Uh, yeah. What that guy/girl said…

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/5 "2005-08-27T05:14:18Z")

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Love that Rick sound! Workin’ on my fourth.

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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/6 "2005-08-27T05:15:08Z")

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Tom Petty and the… you know, nevermind.

Perhaps it was “Rio” by Duran Duran? 😛

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/7 "2005-08-27T05:16:38Z")

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I’ll give you props for the semi and quotes **dinahmoe**.

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/8 "2005-08-27T05:17:53Z")

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Aggh! Full colon that is :smack: 😃

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/9 "2005-08-27T05:19:05Z")

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Now, go to bed already!

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**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-80s-music-video/318838/10 "2005-08-27T05:21:11Z")

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> [@jimpatro](#):
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> Now, go to bed already!

Okay Mom! GOSH!!