Remember when music videos were really weird?

[LoZoccolo]

I'm thinking of ones like:

"Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn - a wedding turns into a horror movie

"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring - I can't remember much about this one, but I remember it was considered really shocking because the guy gets shot on stage at the end.

"Wild Boys" by Duran Duran - Simon LeBon is strapped to a windmill next to a pool in some futuristic Road Warrior-looking world, and his head goes underwater during the pauses between lines.

"One Thing Leads To Another" and "Saved By Zero" by the Fixx - The former had some guy looking at this medallion or something at the beginning and had stuff like dogs licking each other's faces, the latter had scenes from a party and the lead singer spreading what looked like shaving cream on himself.

"Don't Come Around Here No More" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - it's like Alice in Wonderland and they put her in an oven and bake her and eat her like a cake at the end.

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes - where some guy is walking around on the city streets having these OCD-like obsessions about things like a snake wrapping around himself while he's taking a shower, and him washing his face except instead of a little pool of water in his hands it's a pile of caterpillars (I think the latter was so gross they later cut it from the video, because I don't remember seeing it later) and then he jumps off a building

"Leave It" by Yes - there were something like nineteen versions of this video, which were basically footage of the band standing in a line upside-down in front of a white background lip-synching the song, with various computer graphics tricks applied to it in some kind of choreography. At least one of the versions had the MTV titles upside-down.

"Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel - where he's got all this makeup on in a suit and there's all these desk lamps around him moving by themselves

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler - this one was like, considered real good, and had stuff like her walking down a hall and all these drapes were blowing in the wind

There's a few I can't quite remember who did like:

- This one where there's this fancy dinner in some kind of mansion or something, only there are cats walking all around on the table.

- This one where a woman is tied by her arms hanging by this thing made of logs back in like medieval times, and these little elf guys come up and tickle her legs.

Any more?

[thebigidea]

1. anything by DEVO and the Residents

[Left Is Write]

2. Is the fancy dinner one INXS?

The One Thing?

[LoZoccolo]

3. Probably.

I don't remember much about it other than my babysitter thought it was really gross.

[Ophelia Rising]

4. There was this one when I was like 5...

And it totally freaked me out for some reason....I can't remember who the band is, but the song goes "take on me, (take on me), take me home, (take on me), I'll be gone, in a daaaayyyy ooooor twooooooooooooo" and the dude was walkin' though all these doors and it kept going from real people to comic style animation....it always made me want to cry.....oh, and Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel was so weird too!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. It was by AHA!

[lolly]

7. Ah-Hah!

Yes, that's who it was.

And the song was "Take Me On" (Or "Take on Me")

They did some sort of sequel where the comic guy and the real girl got together, I can't remember which world they stayed in.

[Ophelia Rising]

Ah ha!

LOL Thanks guys-I couldn't remember!

[Left Is Write]

12. You were right the second time.

It's "Take On Me". :)

[Tom Kitten]

6. that was back when MTV actually played music

yeah I remember some of those videos...Also the Quarterflash video, "Harden My Heart?, because they were a local group and that song got popular...

A guy I used to work with back then used to imitate Richard Butler from "Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs...actually it was pretty funny...

[lenidog]

9. I remember the days when MTV ACTUALLY played music

Actually I was totally shocked the other day I was passing MTV and there must have been a programming error. They were actually playing a Gwen Stefani video.

I even remember when Rosie O'Donnel was a VJ on VH1

[LoZoccolo]

10. Yeah the Quarterflash one was weird too!

Wasn't it like, she's in some building in the middle of some field, and there's all these little cheap-looking explosions in the field while she's running from it?

[enigmatic]

17. Damn, whatever happened to Quarterflash?

I had the biggest crush on Rindy Ross because of the video; that probably explains my anti-social behavior today...

edit: there's a reson they call me Mr. Typo...

[lolly]

8. "Concept Videos"

Was what they were called.
They actually had an award for them on their MTV video awards show (haven't seen it in ages; do they still have it?)

Anyway, my favorite was "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats.

Renaissance Faire stuff. People doing weird 60's dances with dwarves dressed like Fools, maypoles, etc. Song made no sense.

[lenidog]

11. We can't forget Michael Jackson "Thriller" video

[lenidog]

13. Ozzy Osbournes "Bark at the Moon"

[Radical Activist]

14. Nirvana's Heart Shaped Boxed

It bothered me at the time. I didn't like it.

[Coventina]

15. Gack! "Don't Come Around Here No More" made me HATE Tom Petty!

How about Judas Priest's
"You Got Another Thing Coming" where the guy's head explodes at the end?

Or Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" video that's all about female masturbation?

[CanuckAmok]

16. Herbie Hancock - Rockit

All those weird dancing body parts...br-r-r-r-r-r!

[giant_robot]

18. How about "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails...

...or anything by Ministry. I miss Ministry.

[Dr Fate]

19. I like the Mad Max theme in "You Got Lucky" by Tom Petty..

I miss those charming videos from when I was a kid.

[LoZoccolo]

20. That reminds me - "Big Log" by Robert Plant!

A little similiar, with him wandering through these kind-of empty places like this pool and a bar or something and he's playing cat's cradle.