My dad made this VHS tape of videos he recorded off MTV from 1986-1987. I was just watching it for the first time in YEARS. I used to watch it all the time when I was a teenager, but I think I liked watching the three Bangles videos the most. There is only one Prince video on this entire thing, my first impression of him ever. I found a lot of enjoyment in that video, but too bad it had to end as soon as it did.

Anyway, here’s the playlist and feel free to reminisce

I’ve included a few little facts about certain videos that I noticed or have heard said by my folks (sorry, nothing new on the 1999 video other than the fact I was introduced to it when the millennium was upon us).

Billy Idol- Mony Mony (looked like live footage, but it was just a normal video)
Whitney Houston- I wanna dance with somebody
Madonna- “Open your heart” (haha, first time I saw her cone bra and the video’s dirty in the corner it said: Top 100 videos of 1987: #8)
Heart- “Alone” (same countdown #6)
Bon Jovi- “Livin’ on a Prayer” (same countdown: #2)
Heart- “There’s a Girl” (great girl group need to get their album)

The Bangles
“Hazy shade of Winter” (from ‘Less than Zero soundtrack—which I gotta see)
“Walk like an Egyptian”
“Manic Monday” (need I say more? )

Michael Jackson- “Dirty Diana” ( now I see why they lump him in with Prince, but I still say Darling Nikki kicks its ass )—this was from the Bad album
Debbie Gibson- “Shake your love”
Elton John- “Candle in the Wind” (tribute to Norma Jean—live in Australia)
Bruce Springsteen- “Dancing in the Dark” (the girl he brings on stage with him is Courtney Cox, according to my dad)
Roy Orbison- “Pretty Woman” (b4 the movie came out, ugh, the guitar solos go on forever when Prince is the next video)
Prince- “1999” (I think the colorful clothes are what I took away, but its as if time stands still when I’m watching this Prince video )

Bruce Springsteen
“I’m on fire”
“Glory Days” (in the video, he’s playing a Hohner guitar just like Prince’s in Purple Rain, but it looks like the quality of the wood is a little different since the body has vertical stripes on it)… I get the feeling this was filmed close to where my parents grew up, explaining why Bruce is one of my dad’s favorite artists.

Huey Lewis & the News- “I want a new drug”
Billy Idol- “Dancing with myself”
Debbie Gibson- “Out of the Blue” (I’m after the album of the same name She was awesome to me at a young age, a teenager singer-songwriter)

ZZ Top
“Sleeping bag”
“Sharp-dressed man” (these videos have some awesome special effects for 1987 )

Rick Astley- “Never gonna give you up” ( brings back memories)
Whitney Houston- “So Emotional”
Tiffany- “I saw him standing there”
Jefferson Starship- “We built this city” (from MTV’s Spring Break concert ’86)
Lita Ford- “Kiss me Deadly”

David Lee Roth
“Just a Gigolo” (the song is TERRIBLE, but the video is a parody of many others, and it makes me …and one scene goes back to Billy Idol’s video “Dancing with myself” and David Lee Roth pushes him back and Billy gets electrocuted… and I cheered )
“California Girls”

Belinda Carlisle- “Heaven is a Place on Earth”
The Go-Go’s- “Vacation”
Belinda Carlisle- “Mad about you”
(ironic these are back to back, seeing as Belinda left The Go-Go’s to go solo)

Billy Idol- “White Wedding”
Madonna- “Material Girl”

The video is just about to start when the DVD cut off… that was the two hour mark. I was like I couldn’t believe that the video got cut off like that and it’s a great video! Well, I’ll get the rest of the videos on disc when I get back.

The 80’s was a wonderful decade
What else can I say?

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Very cool that he did that.
It reminds me that i've got a couple somewhere that I should probably transfer to DVD at some point.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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1999

Billy Idol
Heart

theAudience said:

Classic MTV featured some musical 80's gems. Ah..The good ol days

Back in the day i didnt have MTV, by the time i got it around 1990 it was already starting to lose its importance and value, though they still played the older stuff. For me i have tons of tapes of Friday Night Videos, but when that show was GOOD like when it started the first couple of years, when it only played videos, and didnt have the damn Cosby show kids hosting ever other week telling me what they watch, like i cared. But there is one night that i remember so well, it was the Premiere night of THRILLER also on that night 99 Luftballons and Pipes Of Peace by Paul McCartney and tons of others, what a night of great stuff, no talk, no repeating, no bullshit hosting, and no HYPE, the music and videos spoke!

I didn't have a VCR in the 80's either... (I was 17 when MTV came out), and when we did get one it was this cheap top loader, don't even know if it had a record feature!

That was cool that your dad did that, I remember all the videos that he recorded. I used to do that with songs on the radio with my built in cassette recorder. (wow, high tech!) Especially the countdowns by Casey Kasem, as he'd always announce who it was before playing the song and I'd get to decide whether to hit "record" or not!

Now it's all about DVD and CD... and the internet. Remember Napster? Man, that was a music lover's dream.

June7 said:

I'm sure many downloaders who've either been: slapped with fines /sued, and/or got away scott free remember the renegade Napster Days.

MsLegs said:

I got in it just before the shit came down.

I understood the issues some musicians had with it, but I thought of it like radio, how I recorded from the radio to cassette, the same way. And you know, I found a lot of different artist that I liked and bought their albums, too!

But, I think we're thread-jacking here... so, back on topic!

June7 said:

Not quite. It did make MTV News especially w/ Metallica in the mix.

June7 said:

Wow, that sounds pretty cool

looking back at those videos really can jog one's memory, though. I remember all kinds of things when I remember certain visuals and stuff. I can still vaguely remember my attitude towards the 1999 video, but not too much about it.

I think what I'll do is that I'll take my favorites from here (there are a LOT) and burn them all onto a CD... or even 2 discs, since there's so many. But I'll have to track down a lot of music. My folks already had this huge collection of music dating all the way back to the 80's, even 70's in some places. A lot of these artists, they already have. I have a couple myself.

Hunting down Heart, Starship and Debbie Gibson may prove difficult... especially Debbie Gibson. I've been looking for "Out of the Blue" but haven't found it yet. Then again, where I live, the selection isn't all that great to begin with.

Then there are a few artists I'm not sure are worth the effort tracking down. Tiffany & Huey Lewis, I might pass on, but I'm still figuring that out.

There's just something about 80's music that you can't really describe, but I love it to death and miss the fact they don't make 'em like they used to. As far as I'm concerned, I've already got the best part of the 80's with me

I started taping around 85 - 86
Back in the day Mtv was 24 hours of music videos
being so young i recorded every thing and anything. (that i liked)

i have 15 vhs tapes from 1986 - 1999 of just prince stuff