Songs that you wish had a music video?

Fleetwood Mac's "Thrown Down"

Michael Jackson - Human Nature

Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto

The Cars - "I'm Not the One"

Prince - Soft And Wet

" The Star-Spangled Banner" re-imagined for a contemporary audience.

Good choices

Madonna - Holiday

Janet Jackson - Young Love

“Happy Birthday”

Blondie's "Call Me." Their biggest hit, and Debbie Harry at her physical peak.

But the band was pissed because Giorgio Moroder took the song away from them and produced it with just Debbie's vocals and his own session players.

So the #1 song of 1980 had no official video, even though Blondie had released a full video album the year before.

R11, where'd you hear that in regards to them having no official music video for the song?

Lil' Kim - Magic Stick

Kool and the Gang-Misled

Rebbe Jackson-Centipede

R13 Chuckle. It was supposed to have one actually but like so many of his collaborations and networks 50 had a “falling out” with the person.

R14 Centipede has a video and it is camp!

Labia Lover

Vanity - Mechanical Emotion Vanity - Animals

I Just Can't Stop Loving You

The Girl Is Mine

Holiday

Angel

Keep It Together

State Of The World - JJ

Hanky Panky

Rescue Me

Love Will Save The Day

Just Like Jesse James

Family Man - FM

Praying For Time - GM

R19, good choices

"Go Tell Aunt Rhody"

You're so Vain.

Lots of tacky 70s fashion and staring Warren Beatty.

Dusty Springfield:

Beautiful Soul 🎶let me be your pelt/beautiful woman🎶

In the Winter

R12, the Blondie/"Call Me" situation has been reported in bits and pieces over the years.

In this interview, Giorgio Moroder's right-hand man Harold Faltermeyer describes what happened during recording. Basically Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri were a mess:

[quote]Mr. [Chris] Stein was recording his guitar. And I was engineering at the time, so I remember that the guitar of Chris .... whenever he played it it was just like noise... I said, “Chris, what are you doing here? This sounds like shit... "you cannot believe what I heard. It was like hiss and buzz and ground problems and everything on his guitar ... it was unacceptable to record."

[quote]"I’m keen to everything new but if it’s just technical problems and this one didn’t really sound, it was terrible. We got them to do the performance and then I had a talk to the keyboarder. I said, “Yeah, I have another idea for this and that.” And then we tried to record it. We couldn’t get this stuff in sync and then Giorgio said, “OK, guys. This is it. We go back to Los Angeles.” Then they said, “Well, the record is not finished yet.” “We finish it back in Los Angeles.” So we took the tapes back and we finished it and then we had rather serious arguments with the band because I played the solo part on the song ... The keyboarder would have like to play it and he didn’t really like it what I did but, anyway, the thing was out and it was a huge hit."

The band basically disowned "Call Me." They could have put it on "Eat to the Beat" but didn't. No video. No promo push. Until oops, it became the #1 song of 1980.

It's really a Debbie Harry solo record. And she crushed it — the lyrics and that sexy, silvery-metallic vocal; it may be her best.

Everything instrumental on "Call Me" is Giorgio Moroder's session players and Faltermeyer.

Debbie is credited as writer and lead vocal.

Blondie the band is credited only as vocals. That had to have burned them, because women didn't just step out on their band — uh, I guess cuck in today's terminology — like that.

I'd do Debbie Harry in a microsecond even though she's old enough to be my mother. That woman is fire!

Because "Call Me" made Blondie the biggest pop band in the world for a minute, their record label forced them to try and record "Autoamerican" with Giorgio Moroder instead of Mike Chapman.

The band dutifully produced some demos. Shockingly, the sessions were a disaster and fell apart almost instantly.

I remember reading an interview with Moroder where he bitched about how terrible Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri were and how they were always fighting.

Rapture and Tide Is High made Blondie even bigger. But if Moroder had gotten his hands on Live It Up and Angels on the Balcony, Autoamerican could've been a truly classic early-'80s electronic album. In the "Live It Up" demo, you the potential for a blend of "Call Me" and Moroder's later work with Berlin.

the star spangled banner

Thief of Hearts -Madonna

There are a few lengthy comments with links on this Reddit thread about whether or not there’s an official video for Madonna’s “Holiday.” Interesting info…

I always assumed that odd “Holiday” video where they’re dancing in front of a person lounging behind that glass window was the official video, but it was so weird no one ever played it. It’s usual, but it’s so blah. There are few close ups. It looks like someone recorded a play from the balcony of a theater.

Oh get outside of your Madonna bubble

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Snow White Queen

Madonna and Prince - Lovesong

Choctaw County Affair by Carrie Underwood

R36 No one wants to see or hear that MAGA cunt.

You Should Hear How She Talks About You by Melissa Manchester.

The Kindertotenlieder by Mahler.

The Wanderer - Donna Summer

No More Tears - Streisand / Summer

On the Radio - Donna Summer

I always wondered why Moroder gave 'Call Me' to Debbie Harry and not Donna Summer, whom he had hit after hit with. At the time, Moroder was working on Summer's new-wave "The Wanderer" album, and "Call Me" would've fit in nicely with her vocals.

Eleanor Rigby

Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door. C'mon The Beatles could have done that.

When they toured in 1981, Devo would often open with a theme they'd created that usually led into their song "Going Under." That song became a fan favorite, but they never released a video for it. A couple years later, Jan Hammer used "Going Under" as the background music in a segment featured in "Miami Vice" and the song became a popular tune on the show's Season 1 soundtrack album.

R43, yeah I've always wondered why they didn't make a video for it

The songs can be for BOTH singles and non singles...

Cyndi Lauper — All Through The Night. I was somewhat surprised that this song didn’t make the cut on her recent tour.

R46, I also wish that her first tour was released on DVD

Ring Dem Bells by Duke Ellington

This one.

R34 = YES I love that song and entire album.

I wish that Beyonce would have done music videos for all the songs on Renaissance.

There are a lot of great older songs that don’t have videos simply because the songs came out prior to MTV.

When did MTV first become popular?

12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981.

^Popular, not Premiere.

R50 Thank God Beyonce didn't do more videos for that trash album.

God works in mysterious ways.

B-52's "Mesopotamia"

"Trust A Try" (2001)

R56, why wouldn't they release it as a single?

Rather Die Young by Beyonce.

Just As Long As We're Together - Prince

Tantum Ergo.

r57 Virgin was being stupid at that time...also 9/11 tanked a lot of momentum the album had

R61, a shame

Michael Jackson - PYT

Madonna - Survival

Prince - Let's Go Crazy (not a compilation)

[quote] I wish that Beyonce would have done music videos for all the songs on Renaissance.

OMG! Perhaps the most tragic oversight in music history. Those videos would have been EPIC. One day someone is going to do some fire AI videos for "Renaissance."

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

Madonna - Into The Groove

Stomping at the Savoy.

Blondie's very early "Love at the Pier" - a very fun, catchy song.

R70, good choice.

I wish that all of Blondie and Debbie Harry's songs had music videos though...

[quote] Kool and the Gang-Misled

[quote] Rebbe Jackson-Centipede

Both songs have music videos

David Bowie's theme song from Cat People has a fan-created video. I think it deserves the full treatment.

I Can Sing A Rainbow / Love Is Blue

Pop Life - Prince

R75, good choice

All Kraftwerk

Come on Over by ONJ. It was her last single release before Grease. It's a beautiful song.

All of Vicki Lawrence's songs!

Madonna - Angel

Nikki Minaj - Roman’s Revenge

The Bitch Is Back, Elton John America The Beautiful, The 1812 Overture, Txhikovsky

der Hirt auf dem Felsen

Chevy Van by Sammy Johns, Squeeze Box by The Who.

Brad Paisley - We Danced

The Cars - Heartbeat City

Burl Ives - Go Tell Aunt Rhodey

Good choices