Music Videos (animated)

[twiztor]

i didn't grow up with MTV so wasn't exposed to very many music videos. Now i'm looking for help. What videos can you think of that are completely or mostly animated?

i feel like the most famous is a-ha's "Take On Me"

but here's some others that i've uncovered.  

PLEASE SHARE MORE!!

Edited September 18, 2022 by twiztor

[odessasteps]

I’d have pegged this as most famous 

 

are you counting all the Peter Gabriel stop motion videos like sledgehammer and big time?

are we discounting videos from animation from films, be it Disney or something like the Wall? 

Edited September 18, 2022 by odessasteps

[odessasteps]

Matthew Sweets girlfriend using clips from the anime Space Adventure Cobra 

All? Of the gorillaz videos? 
 

also, animated elements: Rasberry Beret, She Bop

Edited September 18, 2022 by odessasteps

[Execproducer]

it's all about the classics.

 

[odessasteps]

There are so many potential split hairs in this. Does “animated” just mean cartoons, either cel or computer?  Do we count Rockit by Herbie Hancock or Land of Confusion by Genesis? Some of the Talking Heads videos? 
 

and Disney “music videos” could go back to Snow, White, When You Wish Upon a Star, Fantasia or Zip-a-Dee-Do-Da? 

[Execproducer]

anything that charted should be fair game.

[odessasteps]

This was quite the innovation at the time, largely forgotten now

 Same with this, prob.

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by odessasteps

[Execproducer]

I actually forgot it myself and I used to love that video.

[Execproducer]

 

[odessasteps]

There’s used to be a “most experimental video” category for the first couple years of the MTV awards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Most_Experimental_Video

i didnt remember some of these, like Boy in the Bubble from Graceland or Rough Boy by ZZ Top.

This I did remember

[odessasteps]

 

[Execproducer]

I'm going to cheat and post this because (1) Reagan was a living cartoon (2) this is a pro wrestling board and (3) when else am I going to have the chance to give props to the greatest video of the 80's?

 

Edited September 18, 2022 by Execproducer

[odessasteps]

Then I’d add this, since its full of stop motion AND two luchadors wearig suits fighting.

Edited September 18, 2022 by odessasteps

[Execproducer]

And the second greatest video of the 80's.

 

[Execproducer]

 

[ohtani's jacket]

 

[Execproducer]

Probably NSFW.

 

[Technico Support]

On 9/18/2022 at 1:23 AM, odessasteps said:

This was quite the innovation at the time, largely forgotten now

 Same with this, prob.

 

I was just about to post that.  I'm pretty sure I saw it on Friday Night Videos as a kid.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Technico Support

[Phantom Lord]

 

[J.T.]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood:  Warriors of the Wasteland

Edited September 20, 2022 by J.T.

[J.T.]

Pink Floyd:  Welcome to the Machine

 

[J.T.]

Gojira:  Another World

[J.T.]

On 9/18/2022 at 1:34 AM, odessasteps said:

There’s used to be a “most experimental video” category for the first couple years of the MTV awards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Most_Experimental_Video

i didnt remember some of these, like Boy in the Bubble from Graceland or Rough Boy by ZZ Top.

This I did remember

I thought my old man memory was bad.   Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon is arguably more relevant today than the day it was written. 

[odessasteps]

I remember the song, just not the video. 
 

“every generation sends a hero up the pop charts” 

[Pete]

UB40 (I think) did a video back in the 80s with the entire band done up as puppets. I can find neither hide nor hair of it and it's driving me batty.