Warning to twentysomethings and teens: clicking the following cut tag will round your age up to 30. n.n
Favorites are in bold.
Wall of Voodoo, "Mexican Radio"Madness, "Cardiac Arrest"Madness, "House of Fun"The Police, "Don't Stand So Close To Me"Eurhythmics, "Here Comes the Rain Again"Cyndi Lauper, "Time After Time"M, "Pop Musik"Spandau Ballet, "True"Simple Minds, "Don't You Forget About Me"Art of Noise, "Paranoimia"The Pretenders, "Kid"The Pretenders, "Brass in Pocket"The Pretenders, "Back on the Chain Gang"After the Fire, "Der Kommissar"Falco, "Der Kommissar"Adam Ant, "Goody Two Shoes" (I keep wanting to sing the lyrics of this to the tune of "All Along the Watchtower" for some reason)
Midnight Oil, "Blue Sky Mine"Squeeze, "Hourglass"Visage, "Mind of a Toy"Pet Shop Boys, "Opportunities" (I WANT those clouds)
Talk Talk, "It's My Life"Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love" (I saw this video long before I had any comprehension of psychedelia; it fucked my five-year-old shit up real good)
Duran Duran, "Planet Earth"Talking Heads, "Crosseyed and Painless"Talking Heads, "Nothing But Flowers"Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House"Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"Wang Chung, "Dance Hall Days" (a guilty pleasure, and what's worse, it makes me think of Puzzlebox ;_; )
Trio, "Da Da Da"Alan Parsons Project, "Don't Answer Me"Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized"TMBG, "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"TMBG, "Ana Ng"TMBG, "Don't Let's Start"TMBG, "Istanbul (Not Constaninople)" (I hated this one when I was a kid, 'cause it wasn't the Tiny Toons version. Love it now, but it loses a lot at this resolution.)
B-52's, "Legal Tender"B-52's, "Song for a Future Generation"Palais Schaumburg, "Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt" ("Karl Heinz, you are beautiful and angular.")
Thomas Dolby, "Radio Silence" (Rhinoscillator: ♥)
Thomas Dolby, "Hyperactive"Devo, "Devo Corporate Anthem" (Jessie: ♥)
Devo, "Jocko Homo"Devo, "Beautiful World" (Grr, starts with five seconds of REALLY annoying header by the distributor. Sorry.)
Devo, "Through Being Cool"Weird Al Yankovic, "Dare to be Stupid"Weird Al Yankovic, "I Lost on Jeopardy"Weird Al Yankovic, "I Love Rocky Road"The Ramones, "I Don't Want to Grow Up"The Ramones, "I Wanna Be Sedated"The English Beat, "Save It For Later"General Public, "Tenderness" (warning: silly intro + painfully cute little kids)
Tears for Fears, "Head Over Heels" (irritating header + painful earnestness)
Culture Club, "It's a Miracle" (this one screwed with my head as a kid, too; I think the "Clone" space on the gameboard did things to me. c.c )
Brian Eno and David Byrne, "Mea Culpa" (yes, I've linked to this one before; I'm linking to it again)
Camper van Beethoven, "Take the Skinheads Bowling"The Fixx, "One Thing Leads to Another"Telex, "Moskow Disko" (designy wonderfulness)
Frank Zappa, "G-Spot Tornado" (note to non-fans; this is very late Zappa and not what he "normally" sounded like)
Matthew Sweet, "Girlfriend" (remember when anime was exotic? ^_^ )
Laurie Anderson, "O Superman"Captain Sensible, "Wot"KLF, "3 a.m. Eternal" (urban romantics please take note)
Peter Gabriel, "Games Without Frontiers"Men Without Hats, "Pop Goes the World" (adorable... but I wanna know where that baby is right now)
Men at Work, "Who Can It Be Now"Sun Ra, "Space is the Place (excerpt)" (Not strictly a music video; DO NOT QUESTION THE MIGHTY AND JOYFUL SUN RA! Unless, you know, it's your thing.)
Shonen Knife, "Riding on the Rocket" (warning: mooncat cameo)
Suzanne Vega and DNA, "Tom's Diner" (this got so overplayed during its original release that I'd forgotten what a fantastic song this is)
Lucia Pamela, "In the Year 2000" (No. Don't click. Don't click. I was only kidding! I didn't think anyone would get hurt! NOOOOO! ;_; )
Joe Jackson, "Steppin' Out"Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, "Balloon Man"Manfred Mann, "The Mighty Quinn" (shit, now I've aged 15 years. c.c )
Donald Fagen, "New Frontier" (Oceanstater, ♥?)
Donald Fagen, "Snowbound"The Residents, "Constantinople" (warning: creepy as hell; no, I mean, this video is literally where bad people go when they die)
Komeda, "It's Alright, Baby" (warning: colorful Mod violence)
Mouse on Mars, "Mykologics" (This was already one of my favorite tracks to get into characters as
Radiofreecatgrl; now I have even weirder associations with it. o.o No idea if this is official.)
Mouse on Mars, "Actionist Respoke" (I think this one de-ages you about five years.)
Broadcast, "Papercuts" (I am absolutely chuffed that I get to share this with you.)
A Tribe Called Quest, "Jazz (We've Got)/Buggin' Out"Digable Planets, "Rebirth of Slick"Kate Bush, "The Sensual World"The Breeders, "Cannonball"Everything But The Girl, "Five Fathoms" (irksome header)
De La Soul, "Me, Myself, and I"Dinosaur Jr., "The Wagon"Helium, "XXX" (I love this video. Lavatrippy. They used to be local...)
The Housemartins, "Happy Hour" (Barenaked Ladies fans, note the chorus)
Kraftwerk, "Numbers" (live performance)
Kraftwerk, "We Are The Robots"Kraftwerk, "Radioactivity" (Dude. They did NOT just play freakin' Vanguard and release it as a promo. Did they?!)
Kraftwerk, "Antenna"Klaus Nomi, "Lightning Strikes" (um... "difficult")
Stereolab, "Fluorescences" (I think this video contains my source code. Needless to say, Postrodent: ♥)
Stereolab, "The Free Design"Stereolab, "Cybele's Reverie"Stereolab, "Miss Modular"Stereolab, "Ping Pong"