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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 19:38:54 GMT -5
Besides the usual picks, Thriller, Sledgehammer and Take On Me, I'd have to go with this one myself
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 19:44:51 GMT -5
I'll start with my favorite Beach Boys' video. After the success of "Getcha Back", their appearance at Live Aid, and then this somewhat artistic video, I sensed some momentum and had high hopes for the immediate future.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 19:49:16 GMT -5
I'll start with my favorite Beach Boys' video. After the success of "Getcha Back", their appearance at Live Aid, and then this somewhat artistic video, I sensed some momentum and had high hopes for the immediate future. I honestly didn't think to go with it, but the Fire music video is awesome! I wish they would have made the Barnyard video with the chickens wearing tennis shoes
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 20:01:33 GMT -5
In the early days of MTV, I used to literally sit in front of the TV and wait for all of these wonderful songs and videos to come on. I was discovering so many new groups and songs. This was one of the best:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 20:30:26 GMT -5
Its a little embarrassing to admit, but I really liked the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync in the 90s. (I was single digits and they were getting a lot of airplay, I didn't know any better! ) I always really liked the Backstreet Boys' music video for Larger Than Life and N'Sync's for Bye Bye Bye. The former had them singing in a space ship almost outta star wars, the latter had them like marionettes being manipulated by a crazy (soon to be ex) girlfriend and involved a car chase. Back when it was released, I would hear Bye Bye Bye everywhere--I have a very distinct memory of it playing over a boombox when I was getting swimming lessons at the YMCA. My girlfriend and I on our first date came back to her place and flipped on the TV for a bit and a commercial using BBB came on and somehow it inexplicably felt significant to me. It made me think of how much time had passed since I was that young and wondering how little-me would react if she'd known what she was in for. Perhaps this anecdote is better suited for the random thoughts thread, but I thought it was cool how music--even a not-so-good song--can make a person feel so oddly significant.
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Post by Beach Boys Fan on Feb 7, 2019 20:35:40 GMT -5
I jolly hate MTV save catching few times The Kinks' 80s/ 90s Christmas song clip. Fave is "Your Mother Should Know" in MMT. It's beautifully realized, fits the song's style. "I'm The Walrus" is cool as well, especially when long line with people in straitjackets united march in military way led by Beatles in different animal costumes, in turn led by magical bus.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 8, 2019 0:33:36 GMT -5
I jolly hate MTV save catching few times The Kinks' 80s/ 90s Christmas song clip. Fave is "Your Mother Should Know" in MMT. It's beautifully realized, fits the song's style. "I'm The Walrus" is cool as well, especially when long line with people in straitjackets united march in military way led by Beatles in different animal costumes, in turn led by magical bus. Beatles promo clips are best.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 8, 2019 0:48:41 GMT -5
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Post by bittersweetsanity on Feb 8, 2019 4:19:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 8:24:56 GMT -5
Its a little embarrassing to admit, but I really liked the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync in the 90s. (I was single digits and they were getting a lot of airplay, I didn't know any better! ) You shouldn't be embarrassed, you know. They were the best of the bunch. My daughter was single digits when she played the violin for a few years (it didn't last). Once she performed The Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" at a school fair (with jk on piano). Quite a feat, in retrospect. The she moved on through two iffy UK boy bands--Blue and Another Level--to N'Sync, by which time she was definitely double digits. I used to like the utterly over-the-top video for "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 17:28:26 GMT -5
the usual picks, Thriller, Sledgehammer and Take On Me Is this a usual pick? I'm no fan of pop videos or promos but I really really like this one. It's the absolute antithesis of the kaleidoscopic likes of "Sledgehammer" (my other great favourite): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Sympathy
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Post by The Cap'n on Feb 8, 2019 18:06:50 GMT -5
I've always liked videos that were funny, even if the music wasn't necessarily comedic. My favorite video ever, probably, is Of Montreal's "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse":
But in my MTV-watching years, I had soft spots for things like Twisted Sister's Roadrunner v Wile E. Coyote style "We're Not Gonna Take It" and Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" for similar reasons. Even Paul Simon's "Call Me Al."
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 8, 2019 22:17:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 8:54:32 GMT -5
Probably my all-time favourite...
This one's so relatable...
This song gets old after the first couple repetitions of the verse but I could watch the video on repeat, super cute...
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Post by The Cap'n on Mar 1, 2019 10:11:30 GMT -5
Just discovered this one today and posted it in the New Music 2019 thread, but it fits here, too. (I also love the song.)
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Post by The Cap'n on Mar 1, 2019 10:15:33 GMT -5
HAIM had two videos from their last album that I really liked, too. Both have long shots like a PT Anderson movie (I'm thinking of the opening club scene in Boogie Nights ... which "Little Of Your Love" really resembles with its group dance stuff) and are just fun. Plus, both great pop songs.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Mar 1, 2019 11:21:59 GMT -5
I have loved this song my whole life. First heard it in the mid-fifties. When Michael Nesmith put it on one of his early solo albums - blew me away at how good it could be done. He took the music of those early seventies times out on tour last year for one more look back, with love. Check those slippers! And Hit those notes, old man!
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Post by treatzapiza on Mar 2, 2019 17:08:54 GMT -5
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