Please, share longform music videos you know of, not just plain recordings of stage shows, but more like one large music video. I am more interested in older ones. I'll start: Blondie - Eat To The Beat (42 min, 1980) Olivia Newton John - Physical (48 min, 1981) Michael Nesmith - Elephant Parts (62 min, 1981) I am not sure whether MVs that are longer than regular ones but not long enough for, like, true longform whatever it is, should be included, like these, so feel free to add them too. Michael Jackson - Thriller (14 min, 1982) Mylène Farmer – Désenchantée (9 min, 1991)
Wow, those used to be impossible to find, there's a few I'm going to look for. I still have some old VHS I bought for cheap, maybe 25 cents, which is nothing somewhere here around the compound. In the old days these were like cult-movie myths, impossible to find.....
Does this count? Billy Squire with the biggest albums of the year, his first videos were taken from this concert and plastered all over MTV. This is a great copy, I have the video disc (Pioneer) and this is one of the best copies. It's not an anthology but a lot of rock groups used concert videos, usually from the same concert.
One of my favorites, they issued a killer VHS and I think this is the one but I'd have to go through my Beta Tapes to confirm. I think this is a little different than the "official" version but I might be wrong.
I'd say, a regular concert or stage show captured on film or tape does not count. But the Beastie Boys film does! I haven't seen it, so definitely going to watch it, thanks!
Some of these are edging but I think I know what your looking for. The Beasties had skits between the "videos" Billy had a great concert that was used for most of the videos for the Don't Say No Album. Some of the old full length videos have disappeared over here, I have VHS I bought over the years but haven't watched, there might be some gems in there.
I'm no expert but after the Beatles didn't Led Zeppelin create an industry, the "Midnight Movies" with The Song Remains the Same?" It still has the live concert but with romantic video interludes between the songs.
I believe ABBA did a film where a reporter was following them around their concerts, trying to get the killer scoop on the band. I've never seen it in full, just bits of it as my parents had it on tv a few weeks back, think it was on BBC3 or 4
Funny that they should mention The Beatles in that trailer because I was thinking about films like A Hard Days Night and Yellow Submarine. Back to ABBA The Movie I have it on DVD and in the extras Benny and Bjorn say in an interview that at first they weren't aware that what was planned as a concert film had been turned into a full Movie with a plot and wondered why what they didn't know was an Actor playing "The Reporter" was asking such strange questions. I have said before about a mystery which took me 38 years to solve which is why ABCs videos for Lexicon of Love didn't match the LP cover or style. The answer was that those were from an Arthouse film which they made which you can read about and watch here https://uk.style.yahoo.com/remembering-lisa-vanderpump-ruled-abcs-cult-movie-mantrap-192147643.html The way it is cut they couldn't easily just extract a pop video from it in the same way that many videos (clips?) were taken from the film Grease. Thinking about it there is a very blurred line between musicals and Longform Music Videos. Was Walt Disney's Fantasia the first one of those ?
I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for. Lots of VHS tapes had chat from the artist between the videos like these which I bought back when they were released.
@Longman, I guess I was interested in the examples of the very earliest examples of longform music films/videos. Here is one that I found on another forum, it is not exactly what I would call a longform music video, it is more like a concert recording, still I am going to link to it just to keep track of it
Before, Elvis, Cliff Richard, or The Beatles, this was the film that is still famed for introducing the U.K. to Rock and Roll music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock_(film) Unfortunately I can only find a short clip from it. Great dancing and music though.
I'm saving this one for tomorrow. I've watched one clip from it and unsurprisingly had never seen it before.
That is good we are writing the names of the videos, so when YouTube takes them down we at least know what it was. Anyway, David Bowie - Jazzin' For Blue Jean
