January 2009
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Billy Joel - “Uptown Girl” (1983) Billy was dating famous supermodels at the time (first Elle McPherson, about whom the song is about, then Christie Brinkley, who appears in the video and later became his wife) and that surely was a hell of an inspiration for the “working class guy trying to woo the rich unattainable girl” theme of the song. The funny video goes pretty well with the...
Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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Eurythmics - “Missionary Man” (1986) Maybe not my favourite Eurythmics song (that would be “When Tomorrow Comes” or “17 Again”) but surely my fav video. It combines stop-animation technique and the removal of several key frames of film so to enhance the movements of a cyborg-like Annie Lennox, dressed in tight black leather (cone cups well before Madonna’s) and sounding cool as...
Jan 27th
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Michael Jackson - “Beat it” (1983) This is my fave Michael Jackson moment, i dig the song and the clip too. And i think this held up better than a lot of other stuff, it’s still rocking, and nothing the Fall Out Boy do to this will ever tarnish it. The clip is a long build up to a gang fight, and it seems inspired by West Side Story and Warriors alike. Michael is not affiliated...
Jan 26th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 18th
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R. Kelly - “Half On A Baby” (1998) Back in 1998 R Kelly’s egotripping ways started getting the better of him. He wrote, played, arranged and produced R, an epic double album equally filled with overblown operaic hooks and bouncy r&b beats. He somehow (mostly) made it work, and no video shows better than this the contrasting styles that defined his music back then. Set in...
Jan 10th
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U2 - “New Year’s Day” (1983) This was shot in December 1982 in Sweden, think about that, it is probably the coldest weather a video was shot in, ever. According to The Edge it was so cold that after the first day of filming they called it quits and decided to send out 4 swedish girls to impersonate them on the horseback riding scene. despite the temperature Bono refused to wear...
Jan 1st
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