Dream sequence? Someone running the horror gauntlet? Kooky art-wank? It’s all possible with the Wall o’ Hands. Here are a dozen very real videos that actually aired on MTV back in the day, neatly organized into the four waking nightmares you had about them.ĭREAM 1: THERE ARE HANDS IN THEM THERE WALLS!Īh, that old MTV standby: the Wall o’ Hands! It turned up in videos of all genres, from New Wave to metal, and worked no matter the production budget or narrative situation. But the Wild West spirit fostered by the network in its early days led to some amazing juxtapositions: For every critically acclaimed song or big-budget gem, you’d get a dozen that, had you not been a middle-school kid riding a Mello Yello high, should have left you wondering, What just happened? It’s only decades later, in the dead of night, that the many artistic failures, visual disasters, and bouts with video dysentery you witnessed back then resurface in your memory, and you have to race to YouTube to prove to yourself that it all had to have been a terrible dream. Thanks to the rise of MTV, the eighties were a pioneering time in the development of music videos.
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