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Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 23, 2014, 11:19 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Musicless Video's[/glow]
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> There was absolutely no shortage of unintentional hilarity
beaming out over the MTV airwaves during the ’80s, but from the
moment David Bowie and Mick Jagger‘s exceedingly ill-advised
promotional clip for their cover of Martha and the Vandellas’
‘Dancing in the Street’ made its debut, rock fans knew they were
witnessing a bad music video for the ages.
>
> In a way, it’s the perfect visual counterpart for the song,
which pulls off the admittedly rather extraordinary feat of
managing to sound both haphazardly tossed off and calculatedly
overproduced. Like any number of ’80s covers of ’60s classics,
Bowie and Jagger’s ‘Dancing’ tried to “update” the original
arrangement with trendy noises; synth-lovin’ production duo
Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, fresh off Elvis Costello‘s
‘Goodbye Cruel World’ LP, were brought in to supervise the
sessions, which — as you might guess, given all the slapdash
clattering going on — had to be completed in a matter of hours,
given the singers’ tight schedules.
>
> With the song in the can, our duo immediately decamped to the
London Docklands to cut the video. Director David Mallet boasts
some pretty impressive credits on his resume, but he didn’t have
much to work with here: Pressed for time and clearly loopy with
lack of sleep or something, Bowie and Jagger resorted to a lot
of jumping around and exaggerated preening, all of which looked
catastrophically silly even by the Day-Glo standards of the
decade. There’s camp, and then there’s Bowie and Jagger’s
‘Dancing in the Street.’
>
> That didn’t stop the song from becoming a hit, however — and
whatever our problems with the recording or the video, we can at
least be happy the whole thing was done for a good cause, as the
duet was organized as part of Live Aid, and all proceeds went to
charity. Given that the ’85 ‘Dancing’ broke the Top Five in the
U.K. and made it all the way to No. 2 in the U.S., we can safely
assume that plenty of money was raised, and we’re thankful for
that, as well as the many laughs the video’s given us over the
years.
>
> We wouldn’t have believed such a thing was even possible, but
now the video’s even funnier: YouTube user Mario Wienerroither’s
‘Musicless Musicvideo‘ series — which is exactly what it sounds
like — has added ‘Dancing in the Street’ to its list of victims,
and the results are predictably hilarious. Without all that
synthy bombast backing them up, Bowie and Jagger are just a
couple of grunting, foot-tappin’ fools, and we’re helpless with
laughter. Check out the clip embedded at the top of this post,
and see if you don’t prefer this version to the original.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li_d_YviZ4
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 23, 2014, 11:20 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Queen - I want to break free[/glow]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbKh0Y_QCrc
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 23, 2014, 11:21 am
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JAMIROQUAI - virtual insanity
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqCVcSWbDc
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: June 24, 2014, 7:08 am
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Hahahaha.
Ya know, because of the outlandish visuals in the music videos,
as bad as they are (and they ARE), it's for that very reason why
I still like them, including all 3 of the videos you posted in
this thread.
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: June 24, 2014, 7:36 am
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I really like the Bowie/Jagger one. I busted out laughing with
the big ol burp.
They are human just like the rest of us.
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: July 9, 2014, 11:33 am
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Nailed it!!!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jd9AmepgdM
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: July 11, 2014, 11:58 am
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>
> I really like the Bowie/Jagger one. I busted out laughing with
the big ol burp.
> They are human just like the rest of us.
>
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I agreed up till yesterday. I gotta go with Elvis as the
funniest now.
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: August 12, 2014, 11:46 am
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too funny....
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Musicless Musicvideo / VILLAGE PEOPLE - YMCA [/glow]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwolgpooUKQ
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: August 12, 2014, 11:48 am
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I looooooooooooooooooove this thread!!
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Re: Musicless Video's
DIR By: Mac
Date: August 12, 2014, 12:25 pm
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Was that a fart I heard in the Village People bit. I would've
thought it would be more of a whoosh sound.
[glow=red,2,300]Musicless Musicvideo / SHAKIRA - Can't Remember
to Forget You ft. Rihanna
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rpimzBjbAs
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