Poll: What's the most 80's music video? Cheese required!

[LeftInTX]

Pass the cheese!

13 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Aerobic Champions
	2 (15%)
	Total Eclipse of the Heart
	6 (46%)
	When the Rain Begins to Fall (Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora)
	0 (0%)
	Total Eclipse of the Heart (Literal Version - Parody)
	1 (8%)
	You Spin Me Round (Like a Record )
	0 (0%)
	Other: Add your own! This is fun!
	4 (31%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[peppertree]

1. For your consideration:

[LeftInTX]

2. LOL!!!

[msongs]

4. they had some right catchy tunes nt

[Coventina]

6. Don't you dare make fun of my beloved Haircut 100!!!!

They totally rock!!

[peppertree]

7. Au contraire! That's long been one of my favs from the '80s

Those jazzy touches and theatrics, that tongue-in-cheek humor, the absurdity, the androgyny...

If it's an '80s music video, it's gotta be British.

[JoseBalow]

3. I humbly submit...

(3:58)

[LeftInTX]

10. I should have also put that one in the poll!

[JoseBalow]

11. It's definitely an 80s burger with extra cheese!

[Tikki]

5. "Rock Me Tonight"...Billy Squire (1984)

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OH BOY...



Here is an Eighties Guilty Pleasure of mine..so nobody dis
"Echo Beach"...Martha and the Muffins. (1980)

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Tikki

[Shermann]

26. Squire had some great videos before that turd came down the chute. nt

[RockRaven]

8. There are many fine candidates for any such short list, but how this one missed out

I cannot understand...

[Shermann]

27. Agreed! nt

[brush]

9. Come on, people. It can't be anything but "Thrilla." Sold more than anything ever.

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[peppertree]

12. And for an honorable mention:

[LudwigPastorius]

13. My entry:

[LeftInTX]

14. Can you believe that's from 2007?

It's from a religious group called "The Way" (There's another video of them dancing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marcia_King
It is believed the reason she had traveled to Ohio may have been due to her suspected involvement with the religious organization The Way.[5]

[LudwigPastorius]

15. 2007!?

Wow

Not hard for me to believe the connection to a murder though. That guy is a dead ringer for Christian Bale in American Psycho.

[LeftInTX]

16. She was murdered in 1981. And no one knows if there was a connection to her murder.

She was missing from Arkansas and was apparently affiliated with "The Way" for awhile. She was a Jane Doe for almost 40 years and was identified in 2018.

[LeftInTX]

21. Here's an 80's video, which probably isn't from "that pro-life" crowd, but it makes me laugh!

Gotta wonder why they got the "Choose Life" shirts and why they were wearing them. Something tells me they were cheap!

[consider_this]

17. C'mon ... Take on Me (by a-ha)

is a classic video! Check it out if you have never seen. Was cool then and still is.

there are plenty of songs, like Blue Monday, Relax, etc that are so 80's, but this video is the masterpiece, IMO.

[JoeColo]

18. I'll second this!

Did you know, there's another updated higher-tech cover video of it, by A1? The song sounds mostly the same, but the story of the video is very different. It's not really 80's like the original.

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[consider_this]

20. I've not seen that before ...

as soon as they entered that simulation, all I could think of was the movie 'Tron'. I was surprised when I looked up this video that it is from 2000 - long after that movie which I think it leans heavily upon for the visual style. Then I thought - ah ha! (pun intended) they are covering an 80's song, so might as well use a 80's movie esthetic to match.

Thanks for sharing. (Of course I far prefer the original - especially for what it was when it came out and it still holds up.)

[LeftInTX]

24. I love that video!

[Prairie_Seagull]

33. Gets my vote as well. nt

[Xavier Breath]

39. If you want to address this question seriously, then yes, this is the winner.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. My vote.

[LeftInTX]

22. Yes! The parodies are the ultra 80s videos!

Dare to Be Stupid by Weird Al is the ultimate!

Weird Al wins!!

In an interview on VH1's Behind the Music, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh stated in reaction to the song that: "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."[3][4]

That's why I put the "literal version" of Total Eclipse of the Heart in the poll

Here are partial lyrics to the parody of Total Eclipse of the Heart. It catches the randomness of the whole thing!

[

blockquote]Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

Spin Around Ninjas (Turn around. Bright eyes)

Then, a bunch of preppies making toast.

Drinking Wine. Douche Bags (Turn around. Bright eyes)

And they shouldn't fence at night.
Or they're gonna hurt the gymnasts

But Arthur Fonzarelli's got an army of clones.

I'll pose like Rocky tonight!

I'm running up a bunch of stairs.

[beaglelover]

23. Rio by Duran Duran

Great video. Totally 80s!

[Different Drummer]

25. I'll throw this into the mix (no pun intended).

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[LeftInTX]

42. I've never seen that video before!

[Shermann]

28. Krokus - Screaming in the Night

This is cheesy 80's in a good way with a cool nostalgia factor for me. These guys were OWNING it. This song and video could not be made today.

[Different Drummer]

38. Always loved that song!

Thanks for posting it,

[Jrose]

29. Xanadu with Olivia Newton John...best song, "Magic"!

The roller disco craze was the rage... and this song, a bittersweet theme of the glitter and fun of those days always haunts me.

[MLAA]

30. Damn, that's a lot of perms and big hair!

[Harker]

31. I can scarcely believe this joint hasn't been rolled.

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[Scrivener7]

35. I can't believe you are post #31!!!

This is the definitive trench coat cheese video!!

[Harker]

45. I didn't have the heart to disguise it...

you're the only friends I have!

[Scrivener7]

48. .

[LeftInTX]

43. He's changed! Can you believe he was only 21 when he recorded that? He's 58 now. One of the younger performers.

[Harker]

46. Yes!

He's taken it pretty well.

I heard the song for the first time (somehow) only a few years ago, and when I subsequently saw the video, I was amused by the difference between his appearance and my imagination.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

32. The aerobic championship made me remember this

It’s genius.

[Different Drummer]

40. Love the video and the song!

[demmiblue]

34. One cannot have this conversation without mentioning the very first video that was played on MTV...

[consider_this]

37. Indeed!

and the plastic-metallic look suits are the cheesiest thing in the fully cheesy video.

[LeftInTX]

41. Good find! Ah Martha Quinn!

I catch up on her now and then. She was diagnosed with endometrial cancer last year. Fortunately, it was Stage 1.

[Archae]

36. No one mentioned this one...

Lampooned just about everyone who was anyone back in the 1980's, and many of them have died since then!

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[jmowreader]

44. We can't leave this one out!

[Harker]

47. This one was my first thought, but then I got Rickrolled. n/t