1984: The Year in YouTube
August 4th, 2008 | 5:00 pm est |
While putting together AMG Loves 1984, we took more than a few trips to YouTube to remember and discover the classic, quirky, and sometimes obscure videos made for the year’s music. 1984 was right in the middle of MTV’s heyday — not to mention the heyday of music video programming blocks like Night Tracks — and it shows in the diversity of these clips. From slick (the Cars’ “You Might Think”) to rough around the edges (Robyn Hitchcock’s “I Often Dream of Trains”); from the Minutemen to Sade; from Ian McCulloch’s face waxing and waning under a swinging light in Echo & the Bunnymen’s “Killing Moon” clip to Run-D.M.C. sitting on a turntable in the “Rock Box” video, here we present some of 1984’s most remarkable combinations of music and imagery.
Accept - “Balls to the Wall”
The Art of Noise - “Close (To the Edit)”
Wally Badarou - “Chief Inspector”
Cabaret Voltaire - “Sensoria”
The Cars - “You Might Think”
Thomas Dolby - “Hyperactive!”
Dominatrix - “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight”
Echo & the Bunnymen - “The Killing Moon”
52nd Street - “Can’t Afford to Let You Go”
Robyn Hitchcock - “I Often Dream of Trains”
Jean-Michel Jarre - “Zoolook”
Loose Ends - “Emergency (Dial 999)”
Minutemen - “This Ain’t No Picnic”
The Pointer Sisters - “Automatic” (performance)
The Police - “Wrapped Around Your Finger”
Rockwell - “Somebody’s Watching Me”
Run-D.M.C. - “Rock Box”
Sade - “Smooth Operator”
Section 25 - “Looking from a Hilltop”
The Smiths - “How Soon Is Now?”
Talk Talk - “It’s My Life”
Whodini - “Freaks Come Out at Night”
Love “It’s My Life”. That’s some great text book New-Wave.
Can anybody help me out??
I’m trying to remember an early video on MTV that had a bunch of puppet caterpillars in it…Can’t recall the name of the song or the group.
Anybody out there remember this video??
Please help!!!
Thanks!
Well, why not “Jump” by Van Halen? It was taken by the “1984″ obviously ;)
Where’s the Boss, Huey Lewis and Prince? They dominated 1984
The video that had the greatest impact on me in 1984 was Yes’ “Leave It”. Apparently the directors (Godley and Creme) put together 15 different versions of the video, although I am most familiar with this one. If you haven’t seen it - ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZV8MPxxgkE
Hey Stonelove,
I belive the video you’re thinking of is Utopia’s “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”. Have a look and let me know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IDEMzGbMv4
Thank you so very much.