I think I remember reading about that after the fact, part of learning just how ridiculous our country can be at times (most of the time?). I do remember a classmate of mine back in 8th grade when Sweet Dreams came out - she went completely punk and got a purple crewcut, Annie Lennox style, and remember how much flak she got for that also.
Yeah, I remember being slightly peeved about that - wasn’t one of the main selling points of cable channels is that they did not have to abide by broadcast standards? That did not last long.
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MEN WITHOUT HATS - The Safety Dance…I still LOVE it today.
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I still love them also, (Pop Goes the World is my personal favorite of theirs) but they pissed me off as a teenager. Every time they came to Seattle, they always seemed to play only 21 and older venues - which never made sense to me. I could understand why The Cramps might do so, but not Men Without Hats. I don’t know who their booking agent was, but someone was dropping the ball big time.
Wrong. Watch all three videos. Bowie has a dozen different costumes in that video, and the point I linked to, 2 minutes and 22 seconds in, he’s wearing something that looks like a still-suit from Dune. It has tubes all over it.
One of the all-time greats, Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. When I hear this song, my head automatically tilts side to side at the part where she does it in the video.
Now, this one is my favorite video ever made. Tom Petty’s Don’t Come Around Here No More. If I were Tom, I’d never take that costume off. Alice cake FTW!
Thanks for posting the long version of this video. I remember the first time I saw it .. it starts like any old performance video in some studio, and got all the way to the chorus, but then .. WTF? Band members turning into animals? The entire song starting over? Some dark movie-like thing set in a fascistic society? Very cool. Of course, soon they started playing the shortened/combined version which wasn’t nearly as cool.
Weird Al! I love his stuff … Ricky, I Lost On Jeopardy, Eat It, Fat … remember when he’d “take over” the network and call it AlTV? “Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads …”
I didn’t pay MTV much mind at first…until my girlfriend at the time told me about this really neat video she’d fallen in love with. It was Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. So, watching it with her, this was my introduction to the music video as a separate art format. I always kind of liked Bonnie Tyler, so it was a good choice for an intro.
Interesting aside - I looked up some background info on Bonnie Tyler prior to writing this. I never knew, until now, that she was originally from Wales. Had always just assumed she was an American artist. Ignorance fought!
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You have seen the literal version of this, right? If not, go there now! You won’t be disappointed (sorry if this was posted before and I missed it–I didn’t read through every response).
My favorite early video is The Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). I’m straight, but to this day I have a mad girl-crush on Annie Lennox from that video, with her orange hair and her suit and her riding crop.
(sorry if this was posted before and I missed it–I didn’t read through every response).
