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Music videos (killed the radio star?)
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I love Mark Knopfler’s ” Money or For Nothing/I Want My MTV, and other songs from 80s… 99 Red Balloons, Thompson Twins, Spandeau Ballet, Boomtown Rats, Midge Ure, Our House song, B-52s, Arcadia/Power Station( Duran2 solo spinoffs), and others you all have mentioned too…. and then there’s Thomas Dolby….Tears For Fears…Howard Jones… Flock of Seagulls, some good Canadian Rock from the 80s, Haywire, BLVD, Blue Rodeo, Payolas, Rough Trade,Bruce Cockburn, Barenaked Ladies, Plantinum Blonde, Northern Pikes, etc…?
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Good one Jacki. This thread would be incomplete if it did not include this one.
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Hey Joe, that’s a great rendition of The Walrus by Crack the sky.
I also like this one from the Cars:
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Another famous video I remember was this one. This was one of my top favorite songs from the 80s.
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The version of Rock Me Amadeus I am familiar with that was playing on the radio, blaring in car stereos and clubs in Canada was this one.
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And Jung, I recall this video too and if memory serves me correctly, I believe Team MLT have mentioned somewheres about Falco having recorded the song in their Austrian home studio, or something along that line, I recall this song being mentioned by them…. Ok, I’m off to bed, just after 1:30 AM for me, Good Night??
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Joe, It’s All I Can Do is a great Cars song. It along with Drive were my faves of their. They were big in the 80s I remember.
Seeing that Beatles video of I am The Walrus, it’s amazing how even with videos the Beatles pre-dated the music video wave of the 80s by nearly 20 years. They were pioneers, years ahead with everything they did, even without knowing it.
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Jacki, yes many Austrian and International artists including Falco were recorded in MLT Papa Rudi’s studio in the 80s and 90s. The song “Rock Me Amadeus” however was not.“Rock Me Amadeus” wasn’t recorded at our dad’s studio but in 1991 the Bingoboys (another one of the few internationally successful Austrian acts) produced three remixes with Falco of some of his other big hits at our house: Wiener Blut, Junge Römer and Der Kommissar.
I adore MLTs cover of Falco’s Der Kommisar!
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Hey Jung, The Cars were a good band. As far as the Beatles. A lot of people say they invented MTV. I think they were first to release a video before the song was release. I think the first one by them was Rain and Paperback Writer. I know the Who did a video on Happy Jack around the same time. It doesn’t matter. Yea the Walrus one of John great songs along with A Day In A Life. John was truly special in his song writing.
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Hi Joe. Thanks for confirming my hunch about the Beatles and music videos. Its interesting other people feel the Beatles were the precursor to MTV. In the same vein, when I heard Beatles Got To Get You Into My Life on their Revolver album, I immediately thought Chicago and all the bands in the 70s that would follow adopting that style of music like The Little River Band, Doobie Btothers etc. The Beatles wrote the first song of that style in 1966, years before Chicago! Again pioneers! If Paul McCartney was a classical music equivalent of Mozart, John Lennon would be a Beethoven in my books. Music overflowing with emotion and passion.
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Chicago’s big video from 1984.
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This is my favorite post-Wings McCartney song, largely because of the intermittent Chicago-like instrumentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-iApVMr2Y
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