Music videos that have aged very badly

[southendpier]

U don't knock Diamond Dave

Have we had ABC look of love. Genuinely shyte https://youtu.be/cNEdxZURTaI

[anonymous-user]

TheChampers said:

It's 34 years' old

Few years older than that I reckon.
Them eighties videos sure knew how to make people cringe, at least the previous decade the footage would normally be from a concert.

[Mr Snrub]

I present to you the most awesomely 80's thing in history - Automatic Man by Michael Sembello (he of Maniac fame)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu_kBTbbulQ

[jogger1976]

Have we had this one yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJk0HW_hJw
Big hair? Check
Shoulder pads? Check
Double leather? Check
Jacket with rolled up sleeves? Check
Moody lighting? Check
Double neck guitars? Check
White Series 3 Jaaaaaaaaaaaag!? Check
Dry Ice? Check
Tawny Kitaen? Check

Mmmmmmmmmmm. Tawny Kitaen

[stinkspanner]

^that's a good song though isn't it! David Coverdale always looked like a massive fanny

[irocfan]

stinkspanner said:

^that's a good song though isn't it! David Coverdale always looked like a massive fanny

but the guy used to have some pipes on him!

[daemon]

irocfan said:

stinkspanner said:

^that's a good song though isn't it! David Coverdale always looked like a massive fanny

but the guy used to have some pipes on him!

Still does. He stI'll tours

[prout]

I'm nominating this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

I bought Copperhead Road on release date. It's still great.

Steve Earle being told to do Hair-Metal. Not so great.

Edited by prout on Monday 24th October 20:51

[anonymous-user]

Janet Jackson

It was never nice but it's really nasty now

https://vimeo.com/44004289

[marcosgt]

southendpier said:

U don't knock Diamond Dave

Have we had ABC look of love. Genuinely shyte https://youtu.be/cNEdxZURTaI

You have a point, but has it 'aged badly'? It was a piss take to start with and certainly not 'of it's time'.

I'd say it's a great song though from one of my very favourite albums!

I even forgave Trever Horn the Buggles for his work on Lexicon of Love.

M

[anonymous-user]

stinkspanner said:

^that's a good song though isn't it! David Coverdale always looked like a massive fanny

Late 70s/early 80s I thought he was at his best (his song lyrics were always a bit cringey mind you) but by the mid 80s he had sacked Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody and gone all LA.

[Gandahar]

totally agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEdxZURTaI

Song is ok, not their best, but fine, that video though, nobody can beat this I don't think

Edited by Gandahar on Tuesday 1st November 20:53

[ChemicalChaos]

Happy 2020!
Stumbled across this video recently:
https://youtu.be/mUFObCZtGWQ

Nice love song, but oh my.... The constant soft cuts between singer and massively staged "everyday life", the sepia tint, and the camera doing circles round the singer during the second half of the song...... It must have all been so incredibly naff back in the early 90s, let alone today!

Plus points for the interspersed "dancing" animals though

[Morningside]

^^^ Very much of the time as they say.

Same as this. I'm sure it was hip and cool but....oh dear

Cliff Richard, Wired for sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57eqtN2K7E
Edit: Actually on page one but no video description.

Edited by Morningside on Friday 24th January 17:04

[crofty1984]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ
The original Ghostbusters theme song. What the hell? There was certainly no #metoo back then.

[Winterway]

This one usually comes to mind

Candlemass - Bewitched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LNi-aPXuc

[MikeT66]

Flipatron said:

marcosgt said:

My candidate would be this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0

M.

Don't agree, still looks great. The bulldozer following down the beach is really eerie.

This however: -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfjSnMN88U

Thread resurrection, indeed. And the first video is, of course, no longer on Youtube. However, there's only one video I can think of with a bulldozer on a beach, so it has to be Ashes To Ashes. There's a good story on this one.

Steve Strange was picked from the Blitz club in London and asked to get some mates together for the video. Tremendously excited to be in Bowie video (the Blitz club started as a Bowie music night), they were a bit disapponted to find they were heading to Southend beach and not an exotic location. Filming was interrupted by an old man walking his dog. David Mallet (video director), asked him to move, and pointed at Bowie who was sitting outside the catering van. "Do you know who that is?" he asked the old chap. "Of course I do," replied the old man, "it's some ct in a clown suit." Bowie later said "It put me in my place and made me realise,'yes, I'm just a ct in a clown suit."

I think it's still an iconic video, even if dated - but only in production standards. Watch any RnB (it's not Rhythm and Blues, though, is it?) video from the last decade (or two) and they are even more embarrassingly dated than Ashes To Ashes already.

[ChemicalChaos]

Happy 2022 y'all!

There's definitely a very underlying theme of this thread - the 80s!

Therefore, allow me to redress the balance with a much more modern offering from the early 2000s.

-Early 00s cliches of:
- Messy bleached hair, beach surfer dude necklace/bracelets and linen shirt? Check
- Yellow tint and washed out lighting
- Fan/crowd shots jump cutting to the beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWnIFlYKjs

It's funny how you think "nah, that decade didn't have any stereotypes or cliches, everything was just normal" then you look back in 10-20 year's time and think "oh"

[ChemicalChaos]

As we roll into 2024, I've recently discovered this song. Cracking tune, but having watched the video several times I'm still none the wiser as to what the fk is going on

https://youtu.be/47y5bo8wtqM?si=XFYfgLqEPRmEcebu

Edited by ChemicalChaos on Tuesday 9th January 12:52

[southendpier]

MikeT66 said:

Thread resurrection, indeed. And the first video is, of course, no longer on Youtube. However, there's only one video I can think of with a bulldozer on a beach, so it has to be Ashes To Ashes. There's a good story on this one.

Steve Strange was picked from the Blitz club in London and asked to get some mates together for the video. Tremendously excited to be in Bowie video (the Blitz club started as a Bowie music night), they were a bit disapponted to find they were heading to Southend beach and not an exotic location. Filming was interrupted by an old man walking his dog. David Mallet (video director), asked him to move, and pointed at Bowie who was sitting outside the catering van. "Do you know who that is?" he asked the old chap. "Of course I do," replied the old man, "it's some ct in a clown suit." Bowie later said "It put me in my place and made me realise,'yes, I'm just a ct in a clown suit."

I think it's still an iconic video, even if dated - but only in production standards. Watch any RnB (it's not Rhythm and Blues, though, is it?) video from the last decade (or two) and they are even more embarrassingly dated than Ashes To Ashes already.

interesting story - but not Southend beach - I'd know. Plus at that time Southend beach was virtually washed away and each section was only a 100 or so metres long protected by groynes, a sad sight. It was recharged around 2000 when loads of material was dug from the Thames Channel, and deposited on the beaches to build them up. It is now incredibly exotic.




internetz says

"Co-directed by Bowie and David Mallet, location scenes for Ashes to Ashes were filmed on 3 July 1980 at Pett Level, a stony beach on marshlands about six miles east of Hastings in East Sussex, known to Mallet since he was a boy."