# Please help me identify this 80's music video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119 "2015-02-19T19:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/41 "2015-02-27T21:48:37Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > …if not what channel—you saw the video? My (obviously not too reliable) memory keeps telling me Chum FM 30. But since it’s not a “hit” it could have been Friday Night Videos or something. It would have been a Canadian or New York State channel back then. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/42 "2015-02-27T22:00:58Z")
Marth and the Muffins, “Echo Beach”? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/43 "2015-02-27T22:41:53Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I was only about 10-12 at the time. Could you possibly make this harder for us? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/44 "2015-02-28T02:39:04Z")
I’ll take stab and say “In a Big Country” by Big Country. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/45 "2015-02-28T03:39:36Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > My (obviously not too reliable) memory keeps telling me Chum FM 30. But since it’s not a “hit” it could have been Friday Night Videos or something. It would have been a Canadian or New York State channel back then. I am reporting in to say that I have now watched so many Canadian videos of the early 80s that my head is going to explode from the sheer Canadian-ness and 80s-ness overload. OMG. You have never seen anything more Canadian or more 80s than Glass Tiger’s Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone (Canadian version). Maybe something on this list? > **[Canadian Songs of the Early 80s](https://musiccanada.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/canadian-songs-of-the-early-80s/)** > > Below are lists of significant songs from Canadian artists for the years from 1980-1984. Keep in mind that the year-end CHUM charts only reflect the popularity of songs in Toronto. Charts in other … ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/46 "2015-02-28T04:30:36Z")
I give up. Thank you everyone for your help. It must have been a really obscure video that for some reason stuck in my pre-teen brain. Thanks again and please don’t expend any more energy on this. If I can’t remember it during 30 years I’m not going to now. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/47 "2015-02-28T04:41:40Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I am reporting in to say that I have now watched so many Canadian videos of the early 80s that my head is going to explode from the sheer Canadian-ness and 80s-ness overload. OMG. You have never seen anything more Canadian or more 80s than Glass Tiger’s Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone (Canadian version). > > Maybe something on this list? > [Canadian Songs of the Early 80s | Canadian Music Blog](https://musiccanada.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/canadian-songs-of-the-early-80s/) Did you watch Gowan and Jane Siberry? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/48 "2015-02-28T17:20:39Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > I’ll take stab and say “In a Big Country” by Big Country. For some reason this pinged my memory bank, also. But I can’t find the original video on youtube to check. The timeframe is certainly correct, and it does feature a cottage - but I can’t recall any other details of the video ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/49 "2015-02-28T22:58:26Z")
Can’t find the right “Big Country” video. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poPts_aUyJc) an alternate one that includes original and new _stills_. Seems to match some key points of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![gersidi76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gersidi76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gersidi76)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/50 "2016-02-01T02:44:41Z")
Dude, I had the exact same problem and when I googled what the song was about it brought me here. I finally figured it out a few days later, but is this the song you were thinking of? When in Rome - The Promise [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5HI_xFQWiYU/maxresdefault.jpg "When In Rome - The Promise (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/51 "2016-02-01T03:03:18Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I’m really starting to think I dreamed this video. ☹ Sorry, I don’t know the video (although I did watch a lot of them on CityTV around that time :)). No, I am posting just to say that I can really relate about you wondering whether it might have actually been a dream. Before the movie I was looking for was identified in [my recent ‘What Movie is This?’ thread](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19059758), I was becoming more and more convinced that I must have dreamt the whole thing. So, you never know . . . ---
**Author:** ![gersidi76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gersidi76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gersidi76)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/52 "2016-02-01T03:06:43Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Sorry, I don’t know the video (although I did watch a lot of them on CityTV around that time :)). > > No, I am posting just to say that I can really relate about you wondering whether it might have actually been a dream. Before the movie I was looking for was identified in [my recent ‘What Movie is This?’ thread](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19059758), I was becoming more and more convinced that I must have dreamt the whole thing. So, you never know . . . I cant believe the CityTV guy just died. CityTV everywhere! And the way he used to announce the baby blue flicks at 1 am on friday nights like he was purposely mocking us pre-pubescent perverts. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/53 "2016-02-01T03:15:00Z")
> [@gersidi76](#): > > Dude, I had the exact same problem and when I googled what the song was about it brought me here. Even if it’s not the same video, it’s awfully coincidental that you both were looking for something similar. I wonder if you both heard or saw something recently that awakened the memory. ETA: You better believe I planned my Friday nights in order to be home in time to watch the Baby Blue Movie! BTW, since this is a fairly old thread (I hadn’t realized how old when I posted), the OP’er may not be following it any longer. Maybe you should send him a personal message. ---
**Author:** ![gersidi76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@gersidi76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gersidi76)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/54 "2016-02-01T03:24:57Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Even if it’s not the same video, it’s awfully coincidental that you both were looking for something similar. I wonder if you both heard or saw something recently that awakened the memory. > > ETA: You better believe I planned my Friday nights in order to be home in time to watch the Baby Blue Movie! > > BTW, since this is a fairly old thread (I hadn’t realized how old when I posted), the OP’er may not be following it any longer. Maybe you should send him a personal message. Yep I did that. I didn’t mean to necro but like you said it was like some cosmic coincidence I found this post. I am a child of the 80s and I am pretty confident we are thinking of the same song. 30 years plays tricks on the memory banks! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2016, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/55 "2016-02-01T06:22:55Z")
What’s funny is i posted earlier in this with some long shots…but now i know the video the guy is talking is talking about, i can see the ending in my head. So at least he didn’t dream it. I swear its rockish like Aldo Nova or Rainbow. Early 80’s not synth pop, though it may have keyboards in it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/56 "2016-02-01T06:39:12Z")
The only video I’ve ever seen for U2’s “I Will Follow” was a live performance. USA Channel’s “Night Flight” played a lot of obscure things that MTV didn’t, things I’ve never heard or seen since. ---
**Author:** ![80\_smaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/f6c823/32.png) [@80\_smaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80_smaster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/57 "2016-03-29T20:46:36Z")
I think the song you are thinking of is Fallen Angel by Poison ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/58 "2016-03-29T23:30:17Z")
probably not it, but maybe Run Runaway, by Slade? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM) ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/59 "2019-03-23T17:48:18Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I thought I’d remember if the band was Canadian, but this is certainly possible. I was only about 10-12 at the time. So Kim Mitchell, Rik Emmett or Rush ---
**Author:** ![Andre1707](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@Andre1707](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andre1707)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119/60 "2025-01-18T23:05:03Z")
Almost sure is this video, Matthew Wilder [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zUjVB8pw4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zUjVB8pw4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-80s-music-video/713119.md?page=4)