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Post by chrislc on Dec 15, 2014 10:17:39 GMT -5
Five months in the Top 40 - so what do you think the budget for this video might have been? Of course I'm sure the video was produced before those five months - but still quite a profit margin I'll bet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZEAnd then there were the careless stagehands who distracted this singer by leaving the body of this dead clown on stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNjL9_rCJc |
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Post by giannirubino on Dec 15, 2014 19:39:48 GMT -5
I'm definitely thinking a bunch of hits from 1980-1981 would qualify. Hits from Loverboy, Kool & The Gang leap to mind, where the song was considered a hit, but the video was just of them faking a performance in a black room, and them not necessarily lip synching all that well. Even at that time I thought, gee, is that all ya got?
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Post by jmack19 on Dec 15, 2014 23:26:51 GMT -5
The video for Wild Thing by Tone Loc cost $500. It was one of the top selling singles of the 1980s.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 16, 2014 7:01:06 GMT -5
I'm definitely thinking a bunch of hits from 1980-1981 would qualify. Hits from Loverboy, Kool & The Gang leap to mind, where the song was considered a hit, but the video was just of them faking a performance in a black room, and them not necessarily lip synching all that well. Even at that time I thought, gee, is that all ya got? This was the video that came to mind for me when I opened this thread. It seems to fit your description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyOaCXr8Lw |
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Dec 16, 2014 7:46:26 GMT -5
There are a few I remember seeing back then that could've been a high school TV class production.
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Post by adam31 on Dec 18, 2014 10:12:00 GMT -5
Were those actually "produced" videos? They appear to be a performance from some TV show, as many "videos" are for 70s songs. (pre-MTV era).
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Post by matt on Dec 19, 2014 17:29:29 GMT -5
Right--keep in mind that pre-1981 and MTV, videos were not really prioritized by artists and record companies. Therefore, there was likely not much budget allocated to making videos, and there were a high number of videos from that time that were simply a tape of an on-stage performance or something similar, with no real "storyline" to the video. Once MTV came into play, the video started to be seen as a way to promote the single...the quality and production changed drastically at that point.
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Post by SFGuy on Dec 19, 2014 20:58:59 GMT -5
I'm definitely thinking a bunch of hits from 1980-1981 would qualify. Hits from Loverboy, Kool & The Gang leap to mind, where the song was considered a hit, but the video was just of them faking a performance in a black room, and them not necessarily lip synching all that well. Even at that time I thought, gee, is that all ya got? This was the video that came to mind for me when I opened this thread. It seems to fit your description: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGyOaCXr8LwSo does this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdETAFYTQMA |
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 19, 2014 21:16:56 GMT -5
One video that always made me wonder, "What were they thinking?!" was "Abracadabra" by The Steve Miller Band. Here's the video:
The editing in this video is pretty bad... even "Pop Up Video" on VH1 made fun of the editing a couple of times. You also have to wonder why Steve and his band would not want to appear in the video. Why do they show Steve in a photo with a black bar over his eyes? I just don't understand how an artist would have wanted this video to represent his work. I still love the song!
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 20, 2014 10:28:46 GMT -5
I just don't understand how an artist would have wanted this video to represent his work. I think that's pretty much been said about this video as well, considered one of the worst of all time. |
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Post by trekkielo on Dec 20, 2014 12:15:33 GMT -5
Right--keep in mind that pre-1981 and MTV, videos were not really prioritized by artists and record companies. Therefore, there was likely not much budget allocated to making videos, and there were a high number of videos from that time that were simply a tape of an on-stage performance or something similar, with no real "storyline" to the video. Once MTV came into play, the video started to be seen as a way to promote the single...the quality and production changed drastically at that point. Electric Light Orchestra are on both sides of this, they made an entire video album of cheesy, yet still enjoyable music videos for all 9 songs off their 1979 album Discovery, a first. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(music_video) Then in 1980 David Bowie had released his "Ashes to Ashes" music video which was considered as the most innovative to date at that time. But ELO were largely regarded to have surpassed that with their music video for "Hold on Tight". At the time it was the most expensive ever made at around £40,000. It was filmed in black-and-white and pays homage to old serial films with ELO playing in the scenes.  |
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Post by albe on Dec 20, 2014 14:43:31 GMT -5
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