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Music Videos : 1983-1990 Best and Worst


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: May 26 2008 07:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

"Sledgehammer" just doesn't do it for me. I'd probably like the video better if I liked the song. I did used to love the stop-motion animation stuff in the video though.

"Land of Confusion" is fantastic, as is "Fight For Your Right".

The worst video ever is Journey's "Separate Ways": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk

Despite being the greatest metal band ever, most of Iron Maiden's videos were pretty boring. "Flight of Icarus" is probably the worst as it manages to cram ever crappy 80s effect into one video:



As for good videos...

"Cherry Pie" by Warrant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDxz2bkfhE

Megadeth's cover of "Anarchy in the UK": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFoFYPMG38

"Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith:


Billy Idol, "Cradle of Love":


Peter Gabriel, "Games Without Frontiers": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-qeJOo7cs
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JoshWoodzy
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PostPosted: May 26 2008 07:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I forgot to add "Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere" to the list.

Awesome video, awesome song.
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Ross Rifle
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 03:21 am Reply with quote Back to top

Yes, Thriller came out in '83, the only year between '78 and '84 that Van Halen didn't release an album, so Eddie did the solo for Beat It.

'We Built This City' by Starship is fucking terrible.

'Flight of Icarus' is pretty rough, but 'Run To The Hills' makes up for it.


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PostPosted: May 27 2008 10:24 am Reply with quote Back to top

ross_rifle113 wrote:
'Run To The Hills' makes up for it.


Awesomely hilarious video. But their best one was "2 Minutes To Midnight."


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Burt Reynolds
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 01:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

some favs off the top of my head: (also 90-99 would be way easier)
INXS: Need you tonight

GNR Welcome to the Jungle.
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Ross Rifle
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 03:42 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Welcome to the Jungle really is a wicked video, but I prefer Paradise City.


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Burt Reynolds
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 03:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

ross_rifle113 wrote:
Welcome to the Jungle really is a wicked video, but I prefer Paradise City.

Me too. But Welcome to the jungle was my intro to GnR, and it forever warped my little 8-year-old brain.
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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 08:23 pm Reply with quote Back to top

For pre-UYI GNR videos, my pick is Patience.
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PostPosted: May 27 2008 09:04 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I can't belive I forgot one of my favorites:
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PostPosted: May 29 2008 08:59 pm Reply with quote Back to top

erock wrote:
beastie boys are the greatest rap group ever. and the fact that kerry king of slayer played the guitar part on fight for your right makes the song even more awesome.

sledgehammer was just stock footage with his musi behind it. how the fuck is that great?

Puppets that look like labrynth rejects? really? that would make it a terrible video.


You are so fucking wrong about Sledgehammer. FUCK! It took them hours to film all of that stop-motion stuff. Sledgehammer might be the best music video ever created. At least in my opinion it is.

Thriller was released in 1983, as the Police's Synchronicity actually beat that album out for Album of the Year at the Grammies, if im not mistaken.

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Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel



I love this video.



A good video from the Collins era Genesis that happened to be at the peak of "Commercial Genesis".


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