Military-Themed Music Videos

[BansheeOne]

4 hours ago, NickM said:

I've never heard Ultravox before. What did you make of that ending? I interpreted as old foes and comrades greeting each other in Valhalla

What do you mean, you never heard Ultravox?!!

 

[sunday]

Only second?

[Stuart Galbraith]

4 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

What do you mean, you never heard Ultravox?!!

 

I loved Ultravox. Particularly the first one. It came out at the height of the nuclear panic in the nuclear 80's, sorta kinda of our version of 99 Red Balloons.

Supposedly Vienna was used by the Austrian Tourist board, somewhat curiously. 'It means nothing to me, oooh, Vienna!' They might have done better to stick to the Third Man Theme....

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[BansheeOne]

17 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Supposedly Vienna was used by the Austrian Tourist board, somewhat curiously. 'It means nothing to me, oooh, Vienna!' They might have done better to stick to the Third Man Theme....

What's wrong with local talent? 

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

There is something about the 1980's where you sit open mouthed and wonder if it happened. I feel like that whenever I hear a Falco song

 

[Nobu]

14 hours ago, NickM said:

I've never heard Ultravox before. What did you make of that ending? I interpreted as old foes and comrades greeting each other in Valhalla

 

I like that interpretation. It was pretty thought provoking to me back when the video was getting a ton of airplay on MTV. It also felt a little out of place in that setting. Maybe Martha Quinn was a military history buff?

Look for a shot of Stuart and DB running at 2:22 

Edited August 5, 2021 by Nobu

[Nobu]

4 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

What's wrong with local talent? 

 

Long live Germany 

[Stuart Galbraith]

26 minutes ago, Nobu said:

I like that interpretation. It was pretty thought provoking to me back when the video was getting a ton of airplay on MTV. It also felt a little out of place in that setting. Maybe Martha Quinn was a military history buff?

Look for a shot of Stuart and DB running at 2:22 

Run, are you mad? I might break into an unsightly sweat.

[Nobu]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Run, are you mad? I might break into an unsightly sweat.

It was a flashback scene in all fairness. And I can still picture it.

The only question is which one of you was the pilot and which one was the armorer as you booked it to the flight line 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Neither. I'd be sat in the Bentley Priory plotting room, surrounded by all the lovely WAAFs and making the important decisions, and supping a Pink Gin when nobody was looking.

[NickM]

10 hours ago, Nobu said:

I like that interpretation. It was pretty thought provoking to me back when the video was getting a ton of airplay on MTV. It also felt a little out of place in that setting. Maybe Martha Quinn was a military history buff?

Look for a shot of Stuart and DB running at 2:22 

See that's the thing: I was out of the US, in college in Greece from 82 to 84. I didn't see MTV until I got back and decided to invest in Cable.

Anyway, I had never heard their songs; I had heard OF Ultravox and the then lead, Midge Ure==gotta love a guy who's named after a trout fly.

[Nobu]

22 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Neither. I'd be sat in the Bentley Priory plotting room, surrounded by all the lovely WAAFs and making the important decisions, and supping a Pink Gin when nobody was looking.

Ian Fleming would approve (from what I have read of his service). Of the WAAFs, at the very least.

[Nobu]

14 hours ago, NickM said:

See that's the thing: I was out of the US, in college in Greece from 82 to 84. I didn't see MTV until I got back and decided to invest in Cable.

Anyway, I had never heard their songs; I had heard OF Ultravox and the then lead, Midge Ure==gotta love a guy who's named after a trout fly.

Arguably MTV's peak years, although I'd trade the air-conditioned single-story junior high school classroom experience for Greece in a second.

I was kind of the other way around--watched their videos, but had no idea who they were. The "British Invasion" thing was over my head at that age. Basically didn't even know there was an invasion going on. Boy George was a normality.

[JasonJ]

Pretty much an mv.

 

[BansheeOne]

More of a Cold War spy theme, but close enough.

 

[rmgill]

 

[lucklucky]

 

[futon]

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

I was just going through a 1983 playlist on Spotify and realised that New Orders 'Blue Monday' originally came out that year. So I thought I would have a look and see what the original video was like, and was a bit surprised. Im pretty sure never seen this before, and its far better, and edgier, than the 1988 remix video.

So as you can see, in between the marching bands and riffs on 1980's 8 Bit loading screens (one thing im happy to leave in the 1980's), there is reverse images of NATO and Warsaw pact training exercises, interspaced with nuclear detonations. Oh, and Atari's Zaxxon arcade, cunningly intercut with a Blackbird.

Yeah, this is kind of how I like to remember the 1980's, vague terror with a nice backing track.

 

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Also from 1983, I'm thinking this might have inspired 'By dawn's early light'.

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Stuart Galbraith

[Manic Moran]

 

 

[BansheeOne]

Lady Gaga's title song for "Top Gun: Maverick". I gotta say it's nowhere near as inspiring as the soundtrack to the original, but the video has nice P-51 porn.

 

[BansheeOne]

Inevitably, the Ukraine War and subsequent Ukrainian win of the Eurovision Song Contest has brought the attendant patriotic music video to international attention:

 

[Harold Jones]

Tribal warfare count?