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.

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Billy Ocean - Loverboy

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Rounding out our All Hallows Even celebration is "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean.  This is definitely one of the oddest 1980s videos, w...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Real Life - Send Me An Angel

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For our second All Hallows Even treat, we're posting Real Life's "Send Me An Angel" (the original version; more on that i...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Kiss - I Love It Loud

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Welcome to ERV's 10th annual All Hallows Even party.  A reminder to our newer readers: our  prior ghostly (ghastly) clips can be found ...
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back

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This is Eddie Money's second appearance on ERV; " Think I'm in Love " was posted more than 10 years ago (way back in Augus...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

MTV Debuted August 1, 1981

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 It was 40 years ago today ... (to commandeer a phrase). Just after midnight on August 1, 1981, the world's first 24 hour video music ch...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Jim Capaldi - Living On The Edge

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While Jim Capaldi is not a household name (even here on ERV), he was an interesting and important figure in rock, especially during the late...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Split Enz - I Got You

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Split Enz (the NZ is a reference to New Zealand, where the band originated) formed in 1973 in Auckland.  The founders - Tim Finn and Phil Ju...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Poco - Call It Love

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Casual music fans may view Poco as an answer to the trivia question: What group did The Eagles raid for their bass players?  In truth, Poco ...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby

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Although he was a funk artist, Rick James lived like a rock star. Huge highs, crashing lows, drugs, and horrific personal behavior defined m...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Mental As Anything - Live It Up

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"Live It Up" is an upbeat song with an interesting history from a cool, quirky band from Australia.  Mental As Anything were an ar...
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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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