Ironic 60's-style Music Videos

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Ok. I'm sure this is a macro-genre of music video production. Has it been covered yet, and trashed? I mean, the idea is so fucking stale: "let's pretend you're the rock invasion and this is a live performance on Ed Sullivan." This must be a default setting of promo video production.

My Nominations:

"Hey Ya' - Outkast
'In Bloom' - Nirvana
'Stepping Off' - Jason Forrest

How many more? And what's the story, is it supposed to be funny? Are these images once associated with rock'n'roll rebellion reproduced as social satire? If you have something to add, or some less than outstanding examples of the genre, discuss.

― Hans J, Friday, 4 February 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Part time love - Elton. With Cathy MaGowan intro.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Cher 'The Shoop Shoop Song' - if only for the slobbering over Winona in a beehive wig it induced (not necess. by me altho she is teh cute)

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

i loved the Nirvana one, if only for Kurt's expressions. wasn't it the first instance (out of what has become 26,837 other instances since) of 'Grohl in drag' in music video?

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

slobbering over Winona in a beehive wig

the Primus song was a typo

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 4 February 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

devo - girl u want owns this thread.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 4 February 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Cher 'The Shoop Shoop Song'

What was really annoying was the every time you got to the line "It's in his kiss", they always cut in a "kiss" scene from whatever crap movie the duff cover was promoting!!!!!! It's like one of those crap early 80s videos where the singer warbles on about flyign like a jetplane, and the video cuts to some turn of the 20th archive footage of a biplane flying into a barn, or suchlike!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 4 February 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Sloan - People of The Sky or something from OCTA (G Turns to D?)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that Sloan 60s bandstand video from Twice Removed? Maybe there are two.

Pizzicato 5, "Twiggy Twiggy"

― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Really really obvious: Diana Ross' "Chain Reaction" !!!

And the laugh is- she was doing that sort video for real on Top of tha Pops in the 1960s!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 4 February 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that Sloan 60s bandstand video from Twice Removed?

"Coax Me". I can remember seeing them on Much later saying it was an homage to some old CBC show, but they didn't feel they'd pulled it off very successfully, and just ended up making a video that looked really cheap.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 4 February 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Weezer - Buddy Holly

Even though it's actually a tribute to the 1970s 50's nostalgia.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 4 February 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Billy Joel, "Tell Her About It." A touch corny but it's a really well-written song.

Phil Collins, "You Can't Hurry Love." I liked it when it came out but it hasn't held up well.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 4 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Wait wait whoa whoa where can I see the "Stepping Off" video???

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Breeders, "Safari"
in a sabbath "paranoid" stylee. it's also their best song.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Beck "Devil's Haricut"

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

uh, no, it's "new pollution"

― reo, Friday, 4 February 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Ride 's "Twisterella" vid was like a sixties TOTP, wasn't it ?

― darren (darren), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

smash mouth -"walkin' on the sun"
the dandy warhols -"not if you were the last junkie on earth"
the strokes -"last nite"
kings of leon -"molly's chamber"

― reo, Friday, 4 February 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

the dandy warhols -"not if you were the last junkie on earth"

How was that 60s? Mimes, dancing needles, strechers and throwing up in a toliet reek of Ironic 90's-style :P

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that Sloan 60s bandstand video from Twice Removed? Maybe there are two.

I believe it is two, one is an alt for People of The Sky and Coax Me sounds right.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm relatively certain that the Outkast video wasn't meant to be ironic.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" had the '60s 'do, but not the TV stage set to match.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Dee Lite Groove Is In The Heart - C

― mucho, Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Son of Bazerk - 'Change the Style', the 60's was one of the styles, I believe(mabye it was the 50's and he skipped the 60's, I dont' remember exactly)

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

uh, no, it's "new pollution"

-- reo (manicexe...), February 4th, 2005.

I did mean to say that one. But now that i think about it, all those french new wave screen-freezes and the grainy film look of the whole thing made it feel 60s to me at the time. Also maybe the "Jackass" video (b&w, cheesy exotica hallucination, etc).

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Sunday, 6 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

"Steppin' Off" is here if you click around a bit: http://www.waverlyfilms.com/

Doesn't fit the thread for two reasons: 1. It's clearly the 70s and 2. The band are an elf, a dwarf, and a wizard. Really.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Rundgren did it first I think, forget the song.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

The Cardigans - Carnival

― Voodoo Man (Voodoo Man), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

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