# Is this the Eightiesest song and video ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342 "2015-01-30T16:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/21 "2015-01-30T20:29:00Z")
I have to give the award to [You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU) for the complete overload of 80s kitsch. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/22 "2015-01-30T20:36:19Z")
I must have been listening to less radio than I thought during the eighties. Tears for Fears (Everybody Wants to Rule the World), Pet Shop Boys (West End Girls), Dire Straits (Sultans of Swing) would have been my nominations for quintessential eighties songs. I wouldn’t know from videos. Music is something that comes in through my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/23 "2015-01-30T20:49:04Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > [Separate Ways](http://youtu.be/LatorN4P9aA). Slo Mo, that stick bass thing, silly track shots, zoomy camera, 80’s chick walking around for no reason, cheap location, fake instrument playing and singing. Not enough fog perhaps. > > But my favorite thing is Steve Perry. Everyone else seems rather subdued, then he shows up and is absolutely **killing** every scene he’s in, at like 200% intensity. He’s like the Shatner of music videos. I opened this thread to suggest the same video. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/24 "2015-01-30T21:09:22Z")
Anyone remember [Agadoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmG6zkADW8)? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/25 "2015-01-30T21:09:44Z")
Lots of things by Jim Steinman - here’s a good example: [Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eln48BCELk) from the (really lame) movie _Streets of Fire._ ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/26 "2015-01-30T21:19:48Z")
How about [Safety Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs)? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/27 "2015-01-30T22:26:23Z")
It’s kind of a separate category, but Poison’s T[alk Dirty to Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCChxBSRo1Y) gets my vote for quintessential 80’s (fake) concert footage. Sparkles, lacy scarves, smoke, excessive instrument playing, singer practically making out with his bandmates, and hair, hair, hair. ---
**Author:** ![Abracadebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Abracadebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abracadebra)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/28 "2015-01-30T22:27:28Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > [Separate Ways](http://youtu.be/LatorN4P9aA). Slo Mo, that stick bass thing, silly track shots, zoomy camera, 80’s chick walking around for no reason, cheap location, fake instrument playing and singing. Not enough fog perhaps. > > But my favorite thing is Steve Perry. Everyone else seems rather subdued, then he shows up and is absolutely **killing** every scene he’s in, at like 200% intensity. **He’s like the Shatner of music videos**. I’m still laughing over this line. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/29 "2015-01-30T22:38:01Z")
> [@Abracadebra](#): > > I’m still laughing over this line. Your username prompted me to look at [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCuTrfTfGd0) again. It’s definitely in the running. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/30 "2015-01-31T02:34:38Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Hang on, this is still the Straight Dope yes? because we are 9 posts in and no-one has posted. > > [Rio by Duran Duran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA) That’s the first song I thought of. But I’ll go with song number 2, also [Duran Duran, “New Moon on Monday”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3a4OTh2Y8w). It has a “story” that makes no sense in context (pseudo-Nazis? The band as the French Resistance?), it has ridiculous hair, and lots of eyeliner. Also, someone riding a horse through town. And fireworks. Barring that, “[Hungry Like the Wolf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0)”, which appears to have been shot in a region that doesn’t have any wolves. Really, Duran Duran have the eighties crazy video market sewn up. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/31 "2015-01-31T02:39:33Z")
Re-watching these videos makes me realize exactly why my parents looked at MTV like it was televising the apocalypse. > [@TroutMan](#): > > Your username prompted me to look at [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCuTrfTfGd0) again. It’s definitely in the running. Those special effects aren’t very special. [/Beavis] I’m laughing like a loon – I’d forgotten how horrible that video was. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/32 "2015-01-31T02:46:32Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Anyone remember [Agadoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmG6zkADW8)? I like how they advertise that they are on MOM Records. Yep, that sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/33 "2015-01-31T02:54:58Z")
Simple Minds “Don’t You Forget About Me”. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/34 "2015-01-31T03:45:40Z")
Full-on eighties: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P9mwELXPGbA/hqdefault.jpg "One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head (HQ Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA) ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/35 "2015-01-31T03:48:06Z")
Conveniently, someone has already done a mix of the two [ABC](http://youtu.be/U6YQdhL6DV4) songs I was thinking of. Bananarama probably has some good candidates as well. And, of course, nothing says “WTF were we thinking?” then wondering why everyone [Wang Chungs](http://youtu.be/BoXu6QmxpJE) tonight. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/36 "2015-01-31T03:53:22Z")
[Whooaaaaaa! We’re half way there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk) [We are far too young and clever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/37 "2015-01-31T04:16:39Z")
Please. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJkbqjQvnk) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/38 "2015-01-31T04:24:52Z")
Here’s a nice trio of obscurish ones: [“Jane’s Getting Serious”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ghHKhbZik) [“What’s He Got”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdj1myZCis) [“AEIOU Sometimes Y”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAldg3I3uQ) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/39 "2015-01-31T04:32:27Z")
> [@mascaroni](#): > > And I’ll raise you a [Men Without Hats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs). StG, that song came on the radio this morning and I thought to myself, _That is the most 80’s song ever._ And that video, wow, I was laughing out of embarrassment just now. I think there was a thread like this not too long ago – maybe Greatest 80’s song – and the consensus was Simple Minds’ **Don’t You (Forget About Me)**, which I pretty much agree with. But I’ll argue that it transcends the 80’s, so not the most Eightiesest. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-eightiesest-song-and-video-ever/711342/40 "2015-01-31T06:04:09Z")
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