Literal video version of White Wedding by Billy Idol

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, February 27, 2009 10:37 AM | permalink

I love these literal versions of 80s music videos. Here's one for Billy Idol's "White Wedding."

UPDATE: I like the literal version of the Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Under the Bridge" even more. (Thanks, Antinous!)

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#1 posted by Johnny Cat, February 27, 2009 11:35 AM

Hmm, White Wedding was the coolest at the time, even though the ballet in the kitchen thing never did seem to work. When Billy crashed the bike through the church window, he was officially labeled "Satanist" by my Dad, which made it all the more covetous to me.

These guys need to go after Asia videos, or maybe Kajagoogoo.

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#2 posted by Nora Rocket, February 27, 2009 11:41 AM

PIROUTTE!

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#3 posted by wispsmoke, February 27, 2009 11:43 AM

I think they should do Clash City Rockers-- the video where Joe Strummer just thrums with intensity in front of the band for the whole of the song.

"I'm fucking playing a song in front of my band. Mick Jones also looks... really intense! Fucking playing the shit out this song in front of the band, I'm Joe Strummer I'm... really intense!"

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#4 posted by Daemon, February 27, 2009 11:43 AM

I wonder if somebody did this for Tom Petty's Last Dance with Mary Jane...

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#5 posted by Antinous / Moderator, February 27, 2009 12:25 PM

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Under The Bridge

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#6 posted by Ratdog, February 27, 2009 12:43 PM

"Standin by Candles"!!

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#7 posted by Robert, February 27, 2009 1:02 PM

Pure genius: "There is something wrong with this room!" closely mirroring the actual lyrics!

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#8 posted by Lilith999, February 27, 2009 2:01 PM

This one's my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJVAFIMnkc

Of course, I am a self-professed They Might Be Giants fanatic...

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#9 posted by Ugly Canuck, February 27, 2009 2:28 PM

... with descriptive video and closed-captioning.

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#10 posted by Ratdog, February 27, 2009 3:06 PM

There is an alright version of Rick Roll, (once you get to the singing around 0:19, before that is kinda annoying)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2jlCyCJBI&feature=related

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#11 posted by Anonymous, February 27, 2009 5:35 PM

@Lilith999 thanks for the link! that's my favorite song in the world.

it's a shame the TMBG parody's lyricist has no sense of meter. (of course, it doesn't help that the singer's rhythm is sloppy.) fitting new words to an existing rhythm is hard to do well in any case, and this song's original meter is brutal, so i salute the attempt.

the White Wedding parody is much much tighter in both departments.

PIROUEEETTTE!!!!

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#12 posted by KurtMac, February 27, 2009 7:04 PM

Nice! Its going to be tough to beat "pipe wrench fight" though!

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#13 posted by caldrax, February 27, 2009 7:57 PM

i find these amusing but i feel like including the captions is a little over the top and tends to kill some of the humor for me.

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#14 posted by Anonymous, February 28, 2009 12:57 AM

Could you please link to my official version of Under The Bridge? http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/16e4ead1dc/under-the-bridge-literal-video-version-from-dustfilms

Instead of that stolen youutbe version. Thanks :)