Topic Playlist (Part 3)

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Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield

From the days when you would take a perfectly ordinary pop song and make an elaborate science fiction movie to be its music video.

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Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield
  6. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

The “literal video” comments on its bizarreness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaiB9jYCxI&ab_channel=undercurrentspaulo

1103

Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield
  6. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
  7. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake

Tawny Kitaen dancing on the hood of a car…nuf said.

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Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield
  6. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
  7. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
  8. Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squire

Widely regarded as one of the worst videos made.

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Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield
  6. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
  7. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
  8. Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squire
  9. Paul - Gilla Band
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Songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
  2. All of the Good Ones Are Taken - Ian Hunter
  3. Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO
  4. Der Kommisar - Falco
  5. Bop 'Til You Drop - Rick Springfield
  6. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
  7. Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
  8. Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squire
  9. Paul - Gilla Band
  10. There There - Radiohead

More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
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More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha

There’s a reason it’s an iconic video even almost 40 years later.

1108

More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics

I’m sure it’s just me, but I’ve long believed that crashing an exploding school bus into a wall of television sets is the all-time high point of the art of music videos.

1109

More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
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More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

With the inkblots.

1111

More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
  6. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes

So good, The Simpsons remade it.

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More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
  6. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes
  7. TV Dinners - ZZ Top
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More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
  6. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes
  7. TV Dinners - ZZ Top
  8. Thriller - Michael Jackson
1114

More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
  6. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes
  7. TV Dinners - ZZ Top
  8. Thriller - Michael Jackson
  9. Something To Believe In - The Ramones

A send up of “We Are the World” featuring cameos from friends of the band, other musicians, and Mark Horton for some reason. It’s supposed to be a charitable video to raise awareness but in the end, it turns out to be a (Spoiler!) cynical cash grab.

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More songs with awesome or bizarre music videos

  1. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
  2. Take On Me - Aha
  3. The Damned - Plasmatics
  4. Cry - Godley & Creme
  5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
  6. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes
  7. TV Dinners - ZZ Top
  8. Thriller - Michael Jackson
  9. Something To Believe In - The Ramones
  10. Whatareya? (You’re A Yob Or You’re A Wanker)’ by TISM

Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
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Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
  2. Paperlate - Genesis
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Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
  2. Paperlate - Genesis
  3. Paperback Writer - The Beatles
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Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
  2. Paperlate - Genesis
  3. Paperback Writer - The Beatles
  4. Puedo Escribir - Sixpence None The Richer
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Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
  2. Paperlate - Genesis
  3. Paperback Writer - The Beatles
  4. Puedo Escribir - Sixpence None The Richer
  5. Every Day I Write the Book - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
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Song titles with paper or writing

  1. Paper Aeroplane - Angus & Julia Stone
  2. Paperlate - Genesis
  3. Paperback Writer - The Beatles
  4. Puedo Escribir - Sixpence None The Richer
  5. Every Day I Write the Book - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  6. Paper Roses - Marie Osmond