Comments on: Bonnie Tyler Owns ’80s Music Video Thursday

By: matt

matt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:47 +0000

Ok…. whew, weird vid. Song though, pretty great.

By: krypto092108

krypto092108 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:48:18 +0000

How about this one? It’s Bonnie Tyler’s song, but a different cut, with more length, and slightly different lyrics…

By: kita19822009

kita19822009 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:19:32 +0000

The 80’s had the BEST music! majority of today’s music SUCKS!

By: BRMBug

BRMBug — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:38:22 +0000

I watched it a year ago when James Urbaniak had it on his LJ.

By: Razor

Razor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:16:37 +0000

I’ve heard this song (dated a guy who was a ZZ Top fan)…never knew there was a video for it!

The guy was a dork for putting something covered in tinfoil in his microwave! XD

The video game (“Eliminator”) looks fun though. *g*

By: Razor

Razor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:16 +0000

I’ll rat out my favorite band. XD Here’s probably their most awesomely bad video ever, but it’s a lot of fun just the same.

Journey, “Chain Reaction” (circa 1983)

By: Razor

Razor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:57:12 +0000

LOL I am SUCH a big Journey fan…I love that video because there’s parts of it where the band just is so hamming it up…totally not taking themselves very seriously. Actually, I think they did that in all of their videos, which makes them a lot of fun to watch. Steve Perry lampshaded the whole thing in his video for “Oh Sherrie” where a pretentious video producer tries to make the video an epic production.

Back in the day when videos didn’t have to make a lick of sense…well, sometimes they don’t today (although I can’t remember the last time I actually saw a music video) but back then? The more nonsensical the better! XD

By: CosmykDolfyn

CosmykDolfyn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:04:18 +0000

Here’s an idea! Don’t have to do it this week, but just an idea for the future. Have a week where it is themed that bands used different visual elements than most music videos. Here’s three examples of what I mean. Note that all of them are actually cool videos.

“Land Of Confusion” By Genesis It’s puppets, not people!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oepXF2B5NK4

“SledgeHammer” by Peter Gabriel A great video done in stop-motion photography.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg

“A Criminal Mind” by Gowan It was a big hit in Canada, and it should have been a hit in the U.S. Comic Book characters and style run rampant here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIjddye2JSA

I wanted to also show a-ha and their video for “Take On me” but you can’t find it on youtube thanks to all the literal video garbage. sheesh

By: Failerella

Failerella — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:39:56 +0000

You called it – Total Eclipse Literal Version made near hysterical.

By: Hangtime

Hangtime — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:12:50 +0000

You DID watch Yo Little Brother, right? ^o)

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:19:39 +0000

and the award for the worst video ever goes to ……. Monster!

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:16:21 +0000

holy crap. did people really make money from this?

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:10:56 +0000

i remember this!

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:03:42 +0000

get out of my way! i gotta pee!

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:58:31 +0000

but my friends don’t dance!

By: soulfire

soulfire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:57:14 +0000

have you seen the literal video version of this? very funny ^.^

By: brmbug

brmbug — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:00:40 +0000

Nothing can top Yo Little Brother. But I’m gonna try:

By: shalin

shalin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:48:40 +0000

I kept thinking during the “Total Eclipse of the Heart” video, is this where all those women got the idea to become teachers and seduce their students?

By: Rachel of Cyberia

Rachel of Cyberia — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:16:04 +0000

I don’t have speakers on this computer, and I am happy.

By: themanwithoutaplan

themanwithoutaplan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:17:11 +0000

literally, the worst music video from the 80s ever made.

By: farsidefreak

farsidefreak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:53:37 +0000

How bout Take on me by A-ha?
(shhhh…its actually one of my favrite music videos!)

By: CB

CB — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:23 +0000

It started out as Hogwarts, now it’s ‘Lord of the Flies’… love it!

By: CB

CB — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:56:23 +0000

I love this video! The claymation monster is too funny!

By: QuoteMan

QuoteMan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:55:31 +0000

Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5MtAmT24g
I love the living room part

By: Voyage Voyage - Desireless

Voyage Voyage - Desireless — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:22:22 +0000

By: MaryInBoise

MaryInBoise — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:32:07 +0000

I polled most of my friends who grew up in the 80s like me, and almost none of them remember this ZZ Top classic. Probably because it doesn’t have any scantily clad women in it.

By: Taross

Taross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:05:09 +0000

Sopranonom and Dagny mentioned it too…

By: Taross

Taross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:02:45 +0000

Indeed. You can dance when you want to!

By: donnaw

donnaw — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:50 +0000

speaking of Safety Dance – check out “Meow Dance” on youtube – very silly.

By: Hangtime

Hangtime — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:34:34 +0000

Another version of ‘Eclipse’ that might be just as weird is when she worked with BabyPinkStar on the 2007 remake/cover/whatever.

By: TheObject

TheObject — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:29:04 +0000

If you don’t have it. Pick up Bat Out of Hell III. It is Meat Loaf redoing a good number of Jim Steinman songs. Mostly ones that were not hits, but also the Celine Dion/ Steinman track “t’s all coming back to me now” which went from a song that I hate to a song that I love instantly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8u7JjxvgEo

By: princessa

princessa — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:50:45 +0000

Total Eclipse is in my opinion the best Literal Video so far.

By: imo

imo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:44:31 +0000

Are you kidding?! The Safety Dance is ALWAYS worth listening to!

By: HeidiKaye

HeidiKaye — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:40 +0000

Thanks to that video, I will never be able to hear the song again without thinking “Aaaah! Flying choir boy!”

By: Miroku

Miroku — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:57:47 +0000

I'll suggest You're Only Human (Second Wind) by by Billy Joel. It has a pre MythBusters Adam Savage in it. Billy Joel - You're Only Human (Second Wind)Uploaded by catrin345. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.

By: Carme

Carme — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:35:16 +0000

I’m surprised no one saw the double difference in the Tainted Love video. It’s supposed to be night but you can see the light is from the sun, as I’m assuming they are shooting during the day.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:41:03 +0000

If you haven’t included it already, Journey’s “Separate Ways” has to be one of the most epically terribly music videos of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQbZRMLKozk

By: foppagal

foppagal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:17 +0000

Jim Steinman is just epic. I was really bummed when he stopped working with Meatloaf. Meatloaf has a good voice, but without Steinman’s awesome lyrics, it’s just no good.

By: foppagal

foppagal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:30 +0000

I was going to suggest that too. That thing is hysterical.

By: Mark, Sr.

Mark, Sr. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:56:57 +0000

Jim Steinman RULES!

By: Watery Tart

Watery Tart — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:55 +0000

Take my breath away – Berlin

By: CosmykDolfyn

CosmykDolfyn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:38:13 +0000

Wow…I did not think at all if you were going to pick one of mine I submitted it would be ‘Tainted Love”. Aw well, Bonnie totally wins it anyway Here’s some more nominations!

“I wanna Be A Cowboy” by “Boys Don’t Cry. The entire video is in a thought bubble, for crying out loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as

Ok, how about some Frankie Goes To Hollywood? Apparently, Lasers are the only important thing in a music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90

“The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats The odd hilarity and weirdness of the video actually makes the song worth listening to!

By: vinylitis

vinylitis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:22 +0000

who is rocky burnette? and why is soft cell “awesomely bad”? i <3 soft cell…

By: Dagny

Dagny — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:18 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. The literal version of Total Eclipse is freaking hilarious.

By: krypto092108

krypto092108 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:56 +0000

I think murder is a bit strong, given the visual and intended contexts…
Don’t you? Bad Guys by sheer virtue of their alignment tend to get what they deserve… This is just a hymn to the hero and what is good and right with the universe…

By: sopranomom

sopranomom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:30 +0000

If you haven’t seen it yet, you have to see “Total Eclipse of the Heart – Literal Version” on youtube. Just don’t drink or eat anything while you watch it… You’re sure to ruin your screen and keyboard if you do.

By: Beppo

Beppo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:14:11 +0000

I always loved the weird Village of the Damned imagery in the Total Eclipse of the Heart video.