Help me find this 80's group from video explanation
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Help me find this 80's group from video explanation
I don't think this will be a hard one, but I can't figure out who this "one hit" wonder is (it wasn't really a radio hit in the U.S.). The video from around 1984/85 shows some gothy-lite looking dudes running up and down a dock singing to a fast moving camera. Seem to remember there are some TVs and/or other electronics and some furniture set up on the dock.
I don't know why the name Belfegore is stuck in my head, but that name isn't showing up with the video I want to see again.
Clues?
I don't know why the name Belfegore is stuck in my head, but that name isn't showing up with the video I want to see again.
Clues?
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I take it this isn't a video you actually have, where you could provide us with a still.
As many one-hit wonders as there were in the 80's, this might actually be a tough one.
As many one-hit wonders as there were in the 80's, this might actually be a tough one.
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No, I'm actually wanting to find the video. I know it was actually played on MTV way back and I have seen it on YouTube in the past year or two. I'm just drawing a blank on the band's name. I did a Google search explaining the video and nothing.
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Being a child of the 80's i have never heard this before and have to say i really liked it, kinda had a billy idol feel to it, also watching the video loved seeing the twin towers again.
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Originally Posted by johnbook
...also watching the video loved seeing the twin towers again.
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Thanks, I couldn't find that on YouTube so I thought I had the wrong band.
edit... that's not exactly a dock or pier either, huh?
edit... that's not exactly a dock or pier either, huh?
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Originally Posted by johnbook
Being a child of the 80's i have never heard this before and have to say i really liked it, kinda had a billy idol feel to it, also watching the video loved seeing the twin towers again.
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Yep, you had the band right, atlantamoi. I had actually posted that video on a thread in this forum a few months ago. I had seen this video as a teenager in the 80's, and never heard of them again, but the name of the band and the chorus (and song title) stuck in my head for twenty years. Then I did a youtube search recently, and lo and behold, there it was in all its glory. I did notice that the video is no longer on youtube---don't know what the story is on that.
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Originally Posted by Ky-Fi
Yep, you had the band right, atlantamoi. I had actually posted that video on a thread in this forum a few months ago.
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Originally Posted by The Infidel
Then try this one on for size:
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Man that was great especially the end shots of the towers, great job Depeche Mode, any other videos that anybody knows about with the towers, it just makes me sad that i'll never get to see the towers in person.