# Looking for a 80s song/video title

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [October 27, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-80s-song-video-title/953278 "2021-10-27T06:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-80s-song-video-title/953278/1 "2021-10-27T06:17:29Z")

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When I was a kid in the early 80s there was an oft-played video on MTV and it was a rant video by a punk/new wave group possibly British in which there were maybe 3 lines in it and the only 2 I can remember is

"(we /I) hate your video  
It’s not (even) rock n roll  
and there might of been a line or two more of the song  
Note the parts in parenthesis might have been there or might not …

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-80s-song-video-title/953278/2 "2021-10-27T06:26:50Z")

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Check out Johnny Rotten’s _Public Image Ltd_ videos. Might be one of them. [Lyrics](https://songmeanings.com/artist/view/songs/137438962045/)

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-80s-song-video-title/953278/3 "2021-10-27T09:07:56Z")

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Doesn’t sound like any PIL song I know.

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**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-80s-song-video-title/953278/4 "2021-10-27T09:29:09Z")

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That sounds somewhat like the Replacements’ “Seen Your Video” (1984):

Seen your video  
That phony rock ‘n’ roll  
We don’t want to know  
Seen your video  
Your phony rock ‘n’ roll

EXCEPT…

There’s no official video for that song, at least not on YouTube.

The song:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SAq9IjoYQtc/hqdefault.jpg "The Replacements - Seen Your Video (REMASTERED)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAq9IjoYQtc)