Friday Night Videos brings back childhood memories of staying up late to watch but waking up early for Saturday Morning cartoons, those days of the 80's are missed.
100% How was I so tired for school on weekdays, yet Saturday mornings totally fine on 4 hours sleep? What kept us awake? Must’ve been the sugary cereal!
I also have a fondness for the first half of the 80s because as a teenager staying up late on the weekends, sometimes all night, was fun. Even if your family didn’t have cable television, there was plenty to watch on network TV. Friday Night Videos wasn’t the only TV program showing music videos late at night. I remember there was a local PBS channel in Denver that showed music videos as well. Now all that’s on local late night TV, which I haven’t watched in years, are lackluster talk shows, news, and infomercials. Saturday morning cartoons are also long gone ☹️
Yes, those were the days. I also loved Night Flight, and Night Tracks. Then eventually we got MTv and loved Sunday nights. They had some British comedies, and later on they had my favorite MTv show “120 Minutes”. For awhile they played the British alternative video ahow “Snub”. And “the Tube” with Paula Yates and Jools Holland. All those British shows really influenced my musical taste, and I had to start buying “imports” to get the best music I could.
was there too...Friday Night Videos was for the kids who didn't have cable and MTV. thank god for this and god bless Friday Night Videos- it was a sanctuary for us kids who liked music back then.
YEP!!!!!!!!!! I was a pre-teen during this music video era, and we had neither MTV nor a VCR, so I basically had to stay up late and watch it every week. Just found your YT channel tonight-I have a lot of catching up to do!!
My parents had cable in 1983 but it was on the "big color set" in the family room. My friends from school ( I was a Senior in the Fall of 1983) would come over and we'd veg out in front of the TV all day watching MTV. I had a small black and white set in my room and would watch Friday Night Videos and SNL away from the rest of the family. It was great, I felt like a real grown-up because I could watch Monday Night Football in peace. Thanks for posting this and making me feel young again. I just wish I could wash the color out and pretend it's 1983 again.
I didn't have cable so this was my mtv i would put the tape recorder to the tv speaker to tape this. Bring back lots of good memories! 1983 was the best year for me as a kid got my first kiss, the baseball team i was on won the town's championship(i played 3rd base like my favorite player mike schmidt), the sixers swept the lakers, and on the last day of school i go to the theater to see return of the jedi.
Mone you improve the quality of our lives with this stuff as you can tell by the comments... just a time capsule of great memories every single time you put stuff out... much thanks!
@@MoneMediaseriously. Another one of these FNV (you probably posted it) I’m almost certain I remember watching when it first aired in 1984. It featured The Cars “You Might Think” and it was such a surreal video I remembered it vividly.
I was first married in 83. This is what we would watch every Friday night, and invite friends over and order pizza. Fun times!! Our small town did not offer MTV back then so this is how we got our music video fix. :)
I was 14 and definitely remember these when I got home after a shift as a dishwasher on Friday evenings- making big plans about what I was gonna do with the boys on Saturday hopefully meeting up with some girls at the record store, arcade, or pizzeria!
I recently watched High School U.S.A. on Tubi... 5:45 mark... was a cool Lil movie. I loved back then when most of the stars from the network would get together for a Sunday night or Monday night movie. They don't do that these days. Friday Night Videos were for those of us who didn't have cable.
Friday October 14 1983, in case you were wondering. I recall the broadcast was simulcast in stereo on radio. I still have an audio recording from that night. "Here's Styx... with Mister Roboto."
The visual clue for me was the 2 models wearing Orioles and Phillies jerseys around the 5:02 mark. Knowing my MLB history, that put this particular episode around October of 1983. Crazy to think that remains the last Orioles team to win it all! My show during those years happened to air on ABC. A little network gem called RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT, hosted by America's loudest whisperer... Jack Palance!😂❤
I have very clear memories of this episode, which was aired this same week in September 1983. KISS premiering Lick It Up without makeup was a big deal for me so I watched this when it aired (I didn't have MTV to see it there first). I remember seeing the Bryan Adams video for the first time that night too, which became a favorite as well. Really cool!
I was 13 when this aired. MTV reigned supreme but FNVs was nice to have when we didn't have cable. Today...I prefer watching the commercials over the music videos.
I remember so many nights as a teen, nodding off in front of the TV after a long day at school--but all it would take was a song like In a Big Country to wake me up and bring me to my feet--dancing across the living room.:)
Wow does this take me back….. I would do anything to go back to the 80s. I was 13 to 23 during that decade. The music was so great and so was tv….and even the commercials were great too and I loved staying up on Friday night to watch videos and getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons. I think I spent most of the weekend in front of the TV to be honest …..switching back-and-forth between MTV, cartoons, American bandstand……… on and on ….and of course I’d go outside to play with my friends and you didn’t have to come home until after dark! Oh….. and maybe get in a visit to the local mall and go to the arcade to play Pac-Man or play Atari at home
Those were the times...my long gone teen days - and those songs were part of that. Greetings from Brazil - Abraços para todos os adolescentes dos anos 1980 - que convivemos com os perigos da guerra fria e da bomba atômica, infelizmente, 40 anos depois, uma vez mais isso nos causa temor.
I show these to my students, they love the music and video. They get a kick of what I wore in my 20’s the dance moves and songs. Now they ask who I had a crush on back in the day so they can tease me. No telling🤣🤣🤣💗
I was 17 in 1983. From 81 to 83 was the best music to me maybe 84. But it started changing around 86,87 to house and techno music which i didn't care for. Thanks for the upload.
1980 was a mix of country and contemporary rock. Techno was 81-83, burned out fairly fast. Big hair bands took over for awhile. Then the 90s became grunge college music. I jumped off the train then.
You guys realize after we are gone, NO ONE will have lived without CONSTANT dopamine distraction/addiction of phones, etc.... lord help um when it crashes
I'm not from the States but this is awesome Hall Of Fame all Songs with Videos of anything and everything deserves that in the 80s and beats nearly anything and everything now or the last 30 or so years since 80s finished and 90s started.Following on from MTV even success of Elephant Parts and Pop Clips with Mike Nesmith thank him also creativity that was starting in the 80s.This island country been in we had Radio With Pictures and Ready To Roll Music Shows if i can remember maybe a couple of others.What a lineup here love Mr Roboto merge all elements of genres and 80s vibeness.Can harp on to be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere
The commercials was so much better now you have stupid commercials about medication’s, that you can actually find out from your doctor, the call commercials stink nowadays. You hardly ever see toy commercials on TV Yep I’ll say it again. Commercials suck these days. give me my time machine.😊
My then fiancé and I were just starting out in life were so broke we sat home on Friday nights drinking a six pack of beer, playing Monopoly, and watching Friday night videos. We are divorced now, but we are best friends. We reminisce about our Friday night’s.
The 4:3 format and the graininess of this video created a strong flashback to 1983 - waiting for this Spandau Ballet video to come on Sounds, an Australian Saturday morning music show, before I had to run off to play netball. I was anxious that I wouldn’t get to see it before I had to leave. I was in year 10 and was 15-16. I saw Spandau Ballet live in 1984. I still listen to their music. True is on a number of my playlists and I have an Apple Music playlist - Spandau Ballet Chronological. Their songs are timeless.
I love all the 80s channels! Sometime I self loathe and then I realize I grew up in the 70-80s era and I wouldn't give that up for anything! I always woke up to Shadoe Stevens, Kasey Kasem, and Rick Dee's top 40 countdowns! Where did the time go?
35:04 now im hungery for a whopper. 😂 i was 11 in 83 and didnt have a clue this show existed. We had ON T.V. back then and they would play music videos every so often. I did listen to the Mighty 690 back then. We great childhoods.
This was great. KISS dancing around in their tights etc is funny, cool, how do you not sing along? The videos were simple but fun, commercials awesome too 😉👅🎸
Watching this on Friday on the big smart TV in the living room, my daughter sleeping next to me, her moms cat snuggled with her. Work from home done for the week. Rainy and windy out. In a shit world, there is such a thing as peace.
Love these, thanks for posting them! Love my 80s, still after all these years, I can watch these all night long! Nothing like the 80s, great music, great bands, great athletes in all sports, great movies, video games, rock n wrestling, tv shows, toys like he man, transformers, gi Joe, thundercats, mtv, the fast food, dukes of Hazzard, chips, a team, knight Rider, man, I can go all night with this! 🤘👍
Thank you so much for including the commercials !! They're just as entertaining as watching the music videos of my youth again. Total time-travel material here... I used to record this on Friday nights and then watch it after Saturday morning cartoons (seems A LOT of people on here/kids at the time did the same thing). Cheers !
Spooky... I have enjoyed Promises Promises by Naked Eyes for decades, but I dont think I've seen the video before. Fun fact, the scene in Nip/Tuck with this song, is as old as the song was, before it.
God. I remember all these songs. Must have been around the fall, because these songs were popular around the time school started that year. I nine years old, but having an older sister helped open my ears to good music
If you didn't have MTV - and who had MTV? - Friday Night Videos was a real treat back in the day. Videos were fun, they were different, they were worth staying up late for. The Chuck Scarborough spot shows this was from WNBC in NYC - the station I watched then.
Great upload! It's so cool to be able to relive all of this today for so many reasons. How can anyone who was around for all of this not feel a bit sad that it was all phased out in favor of TV that just got worse and worse? I'm glad to see a revival of interest in quite a few of the great TV music shows from the 60s, 70s, and 80s on YT. Thank you.
The 80's was the last decade before internet and then shortly after that we got smart phones. It was such a special time maybe that's why we keep coming back to experience it. We were experimenting with wild hair styles, clothes, and the best part - we could not get enough of those new and improved synthesizers which created some of the best music I've ever heard.
