small h Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 A thousand years ago, I watched a mini-documentary about the early days of music videos, pre-MTV, when they were little seen except by industry folk. One of the crusty old guys who had directed about a million of them offered this bit of wisdom: "If you don't know what to put in there, just go with a horse walking through the mist. Works for everything." Wise words. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 There are a lot of great pre-MTV music videos. All the Beatles ones (my faves are the ones for two great two-sided singles, "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" and "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"). There's the Small Faces' one for "Lazy Sunday". There's one Traffic did for "Paper Sun". There are the ones the Stones did for "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby (Standing in the Shadows)" and "Jumping Jack Flash" (Face-Painting Version) and "We Love You" and "Child of the Moon" (feat. Eileen Atkins!!!!!!). The Who's for "Call Me Lightning". And, although it's not pre-MTV, what to me is the greatest of all music videos, which didn't get played on MTV: Les Rita Mitsouko's "Marcia Baila". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 And you have to mention some of the Beach Boys' ones, which as you'd expect aren't exactly good but are endearingly goofy: "Good Vibrations" and "Friends" and "Sloop John B". 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Oh, and Pink Floyd's videos for "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mongo_jones Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 On 12/3/2010 at 10:47 AM, mongo_jones said: it's depressing to think how much ground was covered in music video making from, say, 1955 to 1980, and how little since. On 3/10/2023 at 12:32 AM, Sneakeater said: How Music Videos Stopped (sorry for the late response, but see in 2010 I wouldn't have known to make that remark) um, that was an ironic comment on the other thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Holy shit. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SINCE 2010???????????????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I WANT MY LIFE BACK. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
small h Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Oh, take it. No one else is using it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Here's a good one I'd unaccountably never seen before: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 And speaking of, let's not forget this: (There was a long period in the '70s when I modeled my own personal 'do on that.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 (Annoyingly, everybody thought it was Robert Plant.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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