So just wondering what you guys think are some of the best and worst music videos from 83 to 90.
BEST
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
People don't make videos that look cool like that anymore, it still rocks.
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Ronald Reagan puppet use to scare the shit out of me (But the Phil Collins one was worse)
WORST
Beastie Boys - Fight for your Right
I don't know, the song was bad enough but the video just grated my nerves.
Roxette - She's got the Look
Garbage in its worst form. They use to play it like 6 times a night on "Night Tracks" and it is responsible for my hatred of music videos that infects me today.
erock
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May 26 2008 12:17 pm
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.
JoshWoodzy
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Posted:
May 26 2008 12:31 pm
Yeah the Beastie Boys are a great rap group but that song is pop/rock rubbish.
How about your opinion of best and worst songs? It's just my opinion man, don't throw a fit.
Tyop
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May 26 2008 12:59 pm
I like Fight For Your Right as a song, but the video is kinda dumb, even it was supposed to be a Quiet Riot parody. They look like idiots in it, the lip sync sucks and the walls look like they're gonna fall down any minute. Sabotage, Intergalactic and Ch-Check It Out all have great videos. I'd rather forget about the Fight For Your Right one.
Here's my pick for best video:
JoshWoodzy
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May 26 2008 12:59 pm
Oh and Sledgehammer was actually done with stop motion and claymation by the same people who would go on to do Wallace and Grommit, it wasn't stock footage. ass.
Ross Rifle
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May 26 2008 01:16 pm
Wow, I've never actually seen the whole 'Walk This Way' vid...that's great.
Oh and Sledgehammer was actually done with stop motion and claymation by the same people who would go on to do Wallace and Grommit, it wasn't stock footage. ass.
jesus kid? have you seen the video? the first minute or so looks like stock medical film. arteries blood semen.
the whole point of the fight for your right video is a joke. the beasties are actually against that culture.
great video is the trooper. even it its more of a live synch to the song.
the walls of the wlak this way also looks like its gonna fall down.
scamrock
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Posted:
May 26 2008 03:03 pm
I can only think of one video that should take this crown.
I havn't seen all that many so i won't bother picking one.
Lawyers, Guns and Money
JRA
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Posted:
May 26 2008 03:45 pm
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.
Too bad that solo is fucking terrible.
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
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May 26 2008 03:49 pm
JRA wrote:
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.
Too bad that solo is fucking terrible.
IT would have been sick if King played anything like he does with slayer, that owuld have made a solid solo at least. Rap and have some thrash added in?wouldn't have minded that
Lawyers, Guns and Money
JRA
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May 26 2008 03:51 pm
Tyop wrote:
Here's my pick for best video:
I haven't seen that video in years... I'd agree with that.
I don't watch music videos anymore, but the worst is probably Helloween's "Halloween." For starters, they cut down a 13 minute masterpiece to 5 minutes, and the video is just these fucktards dancing around with pumpkins on their heads.
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
JRA
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May 26 2008 03:53 pm
anorexorcist wrote:
JRA wrote:
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.
Too bad that solo is fucking terrible.
IT would have been sick if King played anything like he does with slayer, that owuld have made a solid solo at least. Rap and have some thrash added in?wouldn't have minded that
When I learned that Kerry King plays on it I listened in the hopes that he could do something outside of that style, instead I get a boring noodling that seems to realize it sucks half way through and then just fizzles out.
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
erock
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Posted:
May 26 2008 03:54 pm
do you guys get the fact that its all a joke? making fun of the 80s party anthes? or is that still going over your heads? its supposed to be bad people.
JRA
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Posted:
May 26 2008 03:54 pm
ross_rifle113 wrote:
Wow, I've never actually seen the whole 'Walk This Way' vid...that's great.
Best video is 'Hot For Teacher' though.
Oooo shit. I forgot about that. Second thought fuck "Walk this Way." Hot For Teacher is king.
SIT DOWN WALDO!
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
JRA
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May 26 2008 03:55 pm
erock wrote:
do you guys get the fact that its all a joke? making fun of the 80s party anthes? or is that still going over your heads? its supposed to be bad people.
Well I haven't heard the song in a while and I didn't even know it was supposed to be a parody, so shows how much I know.
There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant.
erock
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Posted:
May 26 2008 04:02 pm
wikipedia says...
"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" (sometimes called "Fight For Your Right") was the first single released from the Beastie Boys' breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill (1986). It is one of their best-known songs. It reached #7 on the Billboard 100, and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Beastie Boys also included the track on their hits album, The Sounds of Science, in 1999.
Ironically, the song was intended as a parody of party and attitude songs, such as "Smokin' In the Boys Room" and "I Wanna Rock." But the irony was lost on most listeners. Mike D commented that, "The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to 'Fight for Your Right' who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them."[1]
The video seems to have been a parody of Quiet Riot's video for "Party All Night" (another of the party songs which the song mocks). Both videos feature overtly geeky characters whose house is then overrun by a multitude of partying people including the respective band.
Despite probably being the group's most famous song, the Beastie Boys have expressed distaste for it. In The Sounds of Science liner notes, MCA jokingly says the song "sucks," though they didn't feel the album would be complete without it. The group hasn't performed the song live since 1987.
Kerry King of Slayer played the guitar on this track.
JoshWoodzy
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Posted:
May 26 2008 04:18 pm
So thanks for reinforcing the thought I had that even the Beastie Boys hate this song.
scamrock
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Posted:
May 26 2008 04:30 pm
So I'm a little confused. They were against the whole party rock, gettin' wild, cutting loose kind of scene. So were they like really straight laced or something? Because I never really got that vibe from them. Maybe I was just never into them enough to pay real close attention to their lyrics. But they always seemed a little wild and a little crazy.
I can't think of anything else not mentioned. Now if we were covering best videos between 1990-1999, I would have a lot more to post.
Blackout
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Posted:
May 26 2008 05:14 pm
Actual cherry pie drums being utilized during sweet cherry pie is the best moment from 80s videos ever.
scamrock
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May 26 2008 05:35 pm
Blackout Boy wrote:
Actual cherry pie drums being utilized during sweet cherry pie is the best moment from 80s videos ever.
I remember thinking the end of Epic when the piano blows up was pretty cool at the time. But looking back, it could have been better.
Tyop
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Posted:
May 26 2008 05:49 pm
Knyte wrote:
Now if we were covering best videos between 1990-1999, I would have a lot more to post.
Same here. That reminds me: Why '83-'90, joshwoodzell? MTV started broadcasting in '81 and even before that there were music videos. So why '83?
Also I'm surprised there has only been one Michael Jackson video mentioned so far. I'm not a big fan of his, but his videos definitely deserve the praise they get. Not a surprise with directors like John Landis and Martin Scorsese:
Thriller
Bad
Valdronius
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Posted:
May 26 2008 06:44 pm
Didn't Thriller come out in '82?
Klimbatize wrote:
A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd.
Tyop
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May 26 2008 06:48 pm
Valdronius wrote:
Didn't Thriller come out in '82?
I thought so too before I posted, but I looked it up and both IMDb and Wikipedia stated it was from '83.
