80s films with corny music videos/montages

[The Laughing Fish]

I was looking around YouTube and stumbled across some of the corniest "music videos" and montages I've ever seen for movies made in the eighties. 

1. Terminator - Intimacy

Believe it or not, this nonsense was on the original Terminator soundtrack, sung by some obscure pop singer called Lin Van Hek. For a song called Intimacy, I can't believe this video did not include Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese kissing each other HAHA! It was also the song that Sarah's friend was playing on her Walkman moments before she was killed by the Terminator. I got to say though I no longer find the whole movie to be that chilling because of this music video.

2. Cobra - Angel of the City

This actually isn't a real video clip, but it might as well been.  It was your typical corny 80s montage, containing shots of Stallone as the rogue cop investigating a deranged serial killer while Brigitte Nielsen plays a model doing a photoshoot. 

3. Miami Vice - Heartbeat

Not a movie, but it's just like Cobra with the cheesy montage. If I remember this episode correctly, Don Johnson spends the night in with his girlfriend as fails to keep a lookout for his cop buddy during a stakeout. The guy shows up at Johnson's doorstep the following morning all beaten up, and Johnson feels guilty.  I love Lt Castillo's stare at 1:35. 

4. Batman '89 - Batdance & Partyman

Oh yeah, I couldn't resist showing Prince's videos from B89.  Partyman is gold! 

[Catwoman]

ray parker jr.'s video from ghostbusters and bobby brown's from ghostbusters 2 were made for this post lol

[Azrael]

80s/early 90s music videos. I f'ng love this stuff! I wouldn't say corny, but then there's always a thin line between awesomeness and cheesiness, depending on who's watching.

Sammy Hagar - "Winner Takes It All" from Over The Top (1987)

This is the movie where Sly arm-wrestled with the Tattooed Strongman.

Robert Tepper - "No Easy Way Out" from Rocky IV (1985)

I dub those Stallonic songs, and this is one of the Stalloniest of them all. Always great for working out.

King Cobra - "Never Say Die (Iron Eagle)" from Iron Eagle (1986)

Better than Top Gun.

Alice Cooper - "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" from Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

Not one of Alice's best (FAR from it, actually), but he is maybe the only man alongside Englund's Freddy who can add some personality to an entry in the Friday franchise.

Dokken - "Dream Warriors" from Nightmare 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

One of the best (if not the best) sequels in the Elm Street franchise was graced with one of the very best in 80s/90s movie songs (excluding those written by the composer of the film's score). No time for argument. Dokken were at the top of their game.

Motorhead - "Hellraiser" from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)

Not 80s, but still a track used in a sequel of an 80s franchise. The lyrics in Ozzy's original obviously have little to do with Barker's Hellraiser, but they still saw fit to use it in the movie. Hellraiser III is the Batman Forever of the Hellraiser series anyway - after an iconic original and a darker, weirder (and more fantastical) sequel, Hell on Earth was pure cheesy fun with Pinhead running around and wisecracking like Freddy Kruger. In the video, Bradley himself reprised the iconic role.

Doug Bradley: "Ozzy wrote the Hellraiser III song, but Lemmy sang it. I play cards in the music video with Lemmy and, of course, Lemmy plays the ace of spades."

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Black Roses - "Soldiers of the Night" from Black Roses (1988)

Like in Rock Star (2001), a few real musicians (in this case from the band King Cobra) posed as the fictional band in the movie. The film itself is totally forgettable, but the soundtrack is classic.

(There's many more but I don't want to spam the thread)

[Cobblepot4Mayor]

The Terminator music video completely stunned me. I had no idea any sort of music video was produced for the original film. Pretty bizarre (how many members are in that band anyway? It's mental!).

I always kinda liked the Tech Noir club scene music which was done by another band whose name escapes me at the moment. It was right for that time and in the context of that scene. I don't suppose they got videos? "Intimacy" seems the most crazy to make the official theme song. I figured the other two were better. You have to remember Terminator was always believed to be a small time, low budget flick all but three people would ever see. Not the gigantic sleeper hit it became. Having said that you never know. The movie footage looked cool. Perhaps this video truly inspired some little people to check out that little movie nobody seemed to know about at the time? So I guess the filmmakers would have got anybody to write a song for all of three quid lol By the time 1991 rolls around with the mega budget sequel they get things right musically and go to the equally huge Guns N Roses for a far greater soundtrack theme. And all becomes well.

[Cobblepot4Mayor]

ray parker jr.'s video from ghostbusters and bobby brown's from ghostbusters 2 were made for this post lol

I believe Ivan Reitman directed Ray Parker's video and strangely there is not a shred of it on any of the dvd's for the film. I love that video though. What cheesey lighting effects. My favorite being the blue "glow in the dark" phone and Parker's mic stand lol Can't really recall who all the celebrity cameo's are though. It's worth it to see our own Danny Devito singing along to Ghostbusters. The best moment comes at the very end when Bill Murray and co show up in Times Square. Music videos can be excellent "spinoffs" almost when actors appear as the characters their playing from the movies. It's not really done anymore but it was a fun concept. Love the billboard forming the Ghostbuster logo right at the end. Should be a permanent fixture in Times Square just like the giant Batman movie poster that hung there in 1989.

Bobby Brown's is a disappointing one. Good song, bad video in many ways. I like how they show scenes from the movie on the New York skyscrapers. The cameo's in that one don't really work either though it's fun seeing Rick Moranis (but was he truly in character as Louis Tully???). It's extremely weird seeing Christopher Reeve in that one looking healthy and makes me wish he was actually in the sequel itself rather than it's music video!

[Cobblepot4Mayor]

I was looking around YouTube and stumbled across some of the corniest "music videos" and montages I've ever seen for movies made in the eighties. 

1. Terminator - Intimacy

Believe it or not, this nonsense was on the original Terminator soundtrack, sung by some obscure pop singer called Lin Van Hek. For a song called Intimacy, I can't believe this video did not include Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese kissing each other HAHA! It was also the song that Sarah's friend was playing on her Walkman moments before she was killed by the Terminator. I got to say though I no longer find the whole movie to be that chilling because of this music video.

2. Cobra - Angel of the City

This actually isn't a real video clip, but it might as well been.  It was your typical corny 80s montage, containing shots of Stallone as the rogue cop investigating a deranged serial killer while Brigitte Nielsen plays a model doing a photoshoot. 

3. Miami Vice - Heartbeat

Not a movie, but it's just like Cobra with the cheesy montage. If I remember this episode correctly, Don Johnson spends the night in with his girlfriend as fails to keep a lookout for his cop buddy during a stakeout. The guy shows up at Johnson's doorstep the following morning all beaten up, and Johnson feels guilty.  I love Lt Castillo's stare at 1:35. 

4. Batman '89 - Batdance & Partyman

Oh yeah, I couldn't resist showing Prince's videos from B89.  Partyman is gold! 

You have to hand it to Prince he looks like he was having a riot making those videos with all the Batman imagery to toy with. Absolutely banana's! The man did his research it seems too. Notice The Killing Joke images tatooed on his Viki Vale dancers? That's attention to detail! I always thought it slightly funny how much Prince really does look like the Brian Bolland drawn Joker here. Especially his hair.

As nuts as these videos are (and when their songs focussed on The Joker how the heck can they not be?) they were a joy to watch and as entertaining as the U2 and Siouxsie and The Banshees videos. For example take a look at how bland the Spider-Man music videos are. Just bands playing and intercut with the occasional movie footage plug. No sense of imagination or fun at all. Boring as hell. Although the Snow Patrol one had some inventive, cute stuff.

[riddler]

Teen Wolf had like 4.

[Edd Grayson]

Batdance and Partyman made me a Prince fan.