Video To Go

Various Artists

“MTV – Video To Go”
1984, 45 min. – stereo Beta hi-fi
Realistic, Cat. No. 50-3004

DURAN DURAN – is There Something I Should Know?
THE MOTELS – Suddenly Last Summer
STRAY CATS – (She’s) Sexy + 17
NAKED EYES – Promises, Promises
MISSING PERSONS – Destination Unknown
J. GEILS BAND – Centerfold
KAJAGOOGOO – Too Shy
DWIGHT TWILLEY – Girls
THOMAS DOLBY – Hyperactive
THE TUBES – She’s A Beauty
TALK TALK – It’s My Life
GENESIS – That’s All

Music Videos

As some of you may know, I spent the better part of the 80's playing with music on videotape. I am presently examining the collection, and dubbing down (up?) the small portion of it that I am interested in preserving / conserving. I started this project in the fall of '05, and it is in the status of ongoing concern.

MV-09 February 26, 2007

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND – Ice Cream For Crow (‘82)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART – David Letterman interview, ‘82
THE SLITS – Spend Spend (’79)
ROCKPILE – Teacher Teacher (’80?) Nick Lowe
DAVE EDMUNDS – Almost Saturday Night (’81)
LOVE & MONEY – Candybar Express (’86)
GRACE JONES – Honda TV Commercial #1 (’85?)
THE BEAT – Too Nice To Talk To (’80)
GRACE JONES – Honda TV Commercial #2 (’85?)
RICK JAMES – Give It To Me Baby (’81)
THE BUGGLES – I Am A Camera (’81)
ART OF NOISE – Moments In Love (’83)
SHRINK – Valid Or Void (’79)
IT BITES – Calling All The Heroes (’86) Francis Dunnery
JIM BLASHFIELD – Suspicious Circumstances (’85?)
MASAMI TSUCHIYA – Tokyo Ballet (’85) Ipppu-Do
THINKMAN – The Formula (’86) Rupert Hine
THINKMAN – Best Adventures (’86) Rupert Hine
VIRGINE ICARD – Kalas (’84?) Roland Bocquet
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO / THOMAS DOLBY – Field Work (’85)

Then, excited, I made:

MV-10 February 26, 2007

PHILIP GLASS – Saturday Night Live, 3/22/86, 2 songs
LAURIE ANDERSON – Saturday Night Live, ’86?, 2 songs (stereo)
KATE BUSH – Saturday Night Live, ’78? (Them Heavy People; The Man With The Child In His Eyes) mono

TOTP reel - nearly all are 'lipsynchs' ( = L/S )

JAPAN – Quiet Life (9/81)
HEAVEN 17 – Play To Win (9/81)
XTC – Senses Working Overtime (2/82)
MIKE BERRY – The Sunshine Of Your Smile (’80)
GRACE JONES – Private Life (’80)
KIM WILDE – Kids In America (’81)
THE PASSIONS – (I’m In Love With A) German Film Star (’81)
MADNESS – Return of the Las Palmas 7 (’81) instrumental
FREEEZ – Southern Freeez (’81)
JOHN FOXX – Europe After The Rain (9/81)
SQUEEZE – Pulling Muscles From A Shell (5/80)
ROXY MUSIC – Over You (5/80)
THE BEAT – Mirror In The Bathroom (5/80)
PETER GABRIEL – No Self Control (5/80)
TEARS FOR FEARS – Mad World (11/82)
BLANCMANGE – Living On The Ceiling (11/82)
MADNESS – Night Boat To Cairo (4/80)
BARBARA DICKSON – January February (4/80)
DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – Geno (4/80)
THE SELECTER – Missing Words (4/80)
B.A. ROBERTSON – Kool In The Kaftan (4/80)

- Ron

Music Videos

I watched both of these tonight...

* mono

MV-07 February, 2007

SANDII & THE SUNSETZ – Alive / Heat Scale

THE PLASTICS – Top Secret Man ('97 version)

BOURGEOIS TAGG – I Don’t Mind At All

PINK FLOYD – Learning To Fly

YES – Love Will Find A Way

JOE JACKSON – Real Men

ROGER WATERS – The Pros & Cons Of Hitch-Hiking

MI-SEX – Castaway *

MONTE VIDEO – Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang *

LAID BACK – White Horse

M + M – Black Stations White Stations

JOE JACKSON – Breaking Us In Two

PHILIP GLASS – The Photographer (Act III)

TIM FINN – Staring At The Embers

TRACEY ULLMAN – Breakaway *

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM – These Things Happen

THE MUPPETS – I’m Gonna Always Love You

DAVE EDMUNDS – Information

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS – Sister Europe *

THE COASTERS – Saturday Night Fish Fry *

DALI’S CAR – The Judgement Is The Mirror

JAPAN – Life In Tokyo

PROPAGANDA – P-Machinery

= = =

MV-08 February, 2007

* mono

THE FOLKSMEN (SNL, 1984) Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer *

LEN CELLA – Moron Movies (from "The Johnny Carson Show") *

THE FIRM – Star Trekkin’

XTC – All You Pretty Girls ( + interviews)

DAVID BOWIE – 1987 TV Commercial

ROGER DALTREY – Free Me *; Walking In My Sleep *; After The Fire; Let Me Down Easy; Quicksilver Lightning

CAPTAIN SENSIBLE – Glad It’s All Over

MENTAL AS ANYTHING – Live It Up

NEIL (Nigel Planer) – Hole In My Shoe (TOTP) *

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM – Search

PETE SHELLEY – Homosapien *

CLASSIX NOUVEAU – Guilty

EDDY GRANT – Electric Avenue

FINGERPRINTZ – Shadows *

WALLY BADAROU – Chief Inspector

TALK TALK – Life’s What You Make It

IPPPU-DO – Cosmic Cycle (incl. Time Of The Season and Magic Box)

- Ron