Eighties Rare Videos

The place for great and not-so-great nearly forgotten videos from the decade of Miami Vice, mullets, and acid wash jeans. All praise to the bands, YouTube, and the original posters of these videos.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Dwight Twilley - Girls

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Mixing rockabilly, country and British Invasion pop, Tulsa-born Dwight Twilley does not fit neatly into one music segment.  Combine this wit...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

INXS - Don't Change

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It is easy to downplay INXS; they sounded like a new wave bar band, and were not the most innovative or creative group of their time.  What ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Cinderella - Shake Me

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While Cinderella's image was hair-metal, their sound was more bluesy, hard rock.  "Shake Me" fits right in with this, and is a...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

MTV's 10th Anniversary Video

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The Pretenders video was the 50th Video we have put up at ERV, and we thought that it would be cool to show something different.  Think of t...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Pretenders - Day After Day

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It took Chrissie Hynde years to find the right fit in a band, but once she did, the results were impressive.  Hynde was originally from Ohio...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Steve Perry - Strung Out

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By 1984, the relationship between Steve Perry and the rest of the Journey had become strained, so Perry did what all 80s lead singers did un...
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Chilliwack - My Girl (Gone Gone Gone)

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Chilliwack's history dates all the way back to 1964.  Originally called The Classics, and then The Collectors, the band became Chilliwac...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart and You Little Thief

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Here at ERV, we like a good salacious story as much as the next rarely-read blog, especially if it involves music videos from the 1980s that...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Lone Justice - Sweet, Sweet Baby (I'm Falling)

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LA-based Lone Justice showed up on the music scene in 1985 with their self-titled debut, and were another in a long line of bands briefly vi...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Radiators - Like Dreamers Do

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"Like Dreamers Do" is a rare, catchy and slightly eccentric pop song that unfairly received only a modicum of airplay. It is by by...
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I grew up in the 1980s and spent waaaaaaaay too much time watching MTV in the sunporch. I now pretend to be a respectable adult, but my love of music has never waned.
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