Early music videos

yeah Bowie was really cool love the song and video.

I was really into Missing Persons. I loved Dale Bozzio's look and sound back then.

I loved Duran Duran, early Madonna

I love early music!

r4, that doesn't apply to this thread. thanks for posting, though.

Old Madonna had a farm. E I E I O!

More Early Music!

So Much Fun!

The first music video that made an impression on me was Billy Joel's "Pressure" Russell Mulcahey directed it. He set the standard for the first half of the 80s. His list of directed videos is quite impressive peaking with Duran Durans Wild Boys..,, then David Fincher came along

Abba the pioneer of music videos

Sid. Always hated Nancy.

Here you go, OP. The first 30 videos played on MTV.

When Chrissie Hynde was recently on Conan she mentioned that the reason you saw so many British bands on the early days of MTV was not just because of some supposed British music invasion, but because British bands often made short pre-recorded performance videos for British tv shows aimed at teenagers. And, so, when MTV started in the US, where it was not yet de rigeur for every American artist/band to have videos for their singles, a disproportionate number of slots got filled up with those British bands' videos. Pretty interesting. Had no idea.

Just prior to his MTV gig, see if you can spot VJ Alan Hunter as one of the Bowie's dancers in this early video.

Another great early Bowie video:

Back in the 90s, someone gave me a vcr tape filled with Patsy Cline "videos"

One I remember was her ironing as she sang one of her hits

Must have been the late 50s or early 60s.

Guys, 16 responses and nobody mentions this? Pre MTV and as gay as one can get circa 1979.

Electronica...

The Cure...

Syenie Nucks- Gypsy

R15 - that video is amazing. I knew the song of course, but had never seen the video. It wasn't until the second cutaway that I even realized the backup singers were Bowie in drag. It seems like the 70s and 80s were a lot more adventurous in the middle. Bowie was many things at different times - avant garde, androgynous, alien, gender-bending, scary, seductive - but he was, above all, a pop star. If he started out today, I'm sure he'd be a very successful niche artist with a loyal following, because there's still tons of amazing music being made at the fringes of mainstream, but he would not be a household name. It's a shame that these days pop music is so homogenized. And I'm not some eldergay, I'm actually far too young to have experienced Bowie at the height of his power and fame.

Tine Turner's What You Get Is What You See. Circa 1983. I used to think the guys in this video were SO HOT.

A companion to Cher's video up-thread.

[quote]Tine Turner's What You Get Is What You See. Circa 1983.

'87. It was from "Break Every Rule", which was released in '86.

Who else remembers Video Jukebox on HBO? It preceded MTV by a couple of years; a new edition was broadcast monthly. They played the video for Cruisin' by Michael Nesmith every month for years, it seemed like, and even now it's burned in my brain. Lucy and Ramona, and THEIR BROTHER SUNSET SAM!!!

R17 Fabulous!

"Ashes to Ashes" (1980) is not 'early' Bowie, dumbass OP. He'd been making music since 1962.

OP is a dumbass.