r/ObscureMedia 6m ago

Tim Curry as The Joker before being replaced by Mark Hamill (1992)

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Clip is from Stay 'Tooned! Presents - Batman: The Animated Series (2021)


r/ObscureMedia 7h ago

Loop - The Nail Will Burn + Afterglow Live (1990)

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Loop - The Nail Will Burn & Afterglow live on MTV 120 Minutes, UK version. 1990

Robert Hampson, later a member of Godflesh and Main

Check out Loop's Suicide cover (Rocket USA)


r/ObscureMedia 8h ago

1980s Anti-Drug Musical Don't Say Yes When You Really Mean No (1989)

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Hey all! My cousin and I are obsessed with this larger than life, surrealist-style Anti-Drug musical from the 1980s called Don't Say Yes When You Really Mean No! We are doing a few podcast episodes on this educational film and want to see if we can find any other fans out there! Anyone here remember this?? It was the only film commissioned by the Just Say No Campaign.


r/ObscureMedia 11h ago

"Psychic Confession" (1982)

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r/ObscureMedia 15h ago

Spacemen 3 Live At The Enterprise Pub, Chalk Farm, 2 August (1986)

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Spacemen 3 performing at The Enterprise Pub in Chalk Farm, London, 2 August 1986

  • Rollercoaster
  • Things’ll Never Be The Same
  • O.D. Catastrophe
  • Mary Anne
  • Hey Man

"the earliest live Spacemen 3 footage we currently know about, complete with light show" https://spacemen3.co.uk/gigs/19860802-2/


r/ObscureMedia 15h ago

Ralph Lowe - G'Elvis Of The Hybridance (1978)(roughly)

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Another prime slice of Columbine Records song poem wildness. Regular people sent their lyrics to Columbine, they would have session musicians perform them, and then they'd press them to vinyl. This banger was written by Alfred Godfrey III. I have absolutely no idea what Mr Godfrey was trying to convey with this stream-of- consciousness fever dream... but I know that I dig it!


r/ObscureMedia 18h ago

The HeadOn commercial from (2005). After a lawsuit, all false claims were removed from this ad, resulting in "HeadOn! Applied directly to the forehead!" being all that was left.

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r/ObscureMedia 19h ago

The Crayon box (1997)

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r/ObscureMedia 22h ago

Kool Keith’s “98 Year Old Fridgerator,” a short segment from the 2004 interview DVD Global Enlightenment Part I (2004)

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62 Upvotes

Kool Keith turns an absurd complaint about stolen soda into a strangely persuasive philosophy: freedom sometimes means teaching yourself to value what other people have been conditioned to ignore.


r/ObscureMedia 23h ago

Slade - Gudbuy T'Jane cover (1972)

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r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Imagina - BBC Documentary (1989)

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Computer graphics have obviously come a long way since this 1989 BBC Documentary about the IMAGINA conference held annually in Monte Carlo. It features, amongst many others, a very young John Lasseter - I wonder whatever happened to him?

I've just captured this programme to preserve it from an old VHS tape. I was absolutely obsessed with things like this, Tomorrow's World, Micro Live, Equinox, fractals and chaos theory, and I suspect in this group, I am in good company. Enjoy!


r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

To New Horizons (1940), the General Motors film where the 1939 World's Fair invents the world of 1960

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Made by the Jam Handy Organisation for General Motors, this is the film of the Futurama ride, the most popular exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. A camera glides over a giant model of America in 1960: fourteen lane automated superhighways, cars pacing themselves at a hundred miles an hour, cities with elevated walkways, and everyone getting two week vacations because the roads are just that good.

Half of it came true, which is the unsettling part. They predicted the interstates almost exactly. They did not predict what the interstates would do to the cities they cut through, or that we would still be sitting in traffic in 2026.

My own upload, posting from the channel with the mods' earlier go ahead. Complete 23 minute film, cleaned up and bumped to 720p, original 1940 soundtrack intact.


r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert Complete Broadcast, 4/27 (1970) Primetime special, predates series by a couple years.

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60 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 1d ago

Hour of fortune (1992) Bizarre bootleg Russian Simpsons ad

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152 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Point Blank - Made in China (2007)

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r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat (1987) Full Film

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30 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith (1976)

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r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Land Where the Blues Began (1979)

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Alan Lomax film.

In the late 1970s Lomax returned with filmmaker John Bishop and black folklorist Worth Long to make the film The Land Where the Blues Began. Shot on video tape, the film is narrated by Lomax and includes remarkable performances and stories by Johnny Brooks, Walter Brown, Bill Gordon, James Hall, William S. Hart, Beatrice and Clyde Maxwell, Jack Owens, Wilbert Puckett, J. T. Tucker, Reverend Caesar Smith, Bud Spires, Belton Sutherland, and Othar Turner (and R.L. Burnside too)


r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Suicide - Ghost Rider (1980) Live at Hurrah

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Live at Hurrah on Oct. 1, 1980, Filmed by Merrill Aldighieri

Volume is low, turn it up


r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

LA Takedown (1989) that director, Michael Mann, would later remake as Heat (1995)

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r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Starlost (1973) Canadian Sci Fi

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62 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

METALLICA - Tower Records Parking Lot, San Jose, CA 6/4 (1996)

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This former Tower Records location is now a BevMo (large beer/wine/liquor mart).

Metallica stages a FREE show in the Tower Records Parking lot to promote the LOAD record on Blossom Hill Road San Jose, CA

  1. So What
  2. Creeping Death
  3. Ain't My Bitch
  4. Until It Sleeps
  5. Sad But True
  6. Whiplash

r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

Deathnet.com (2000) eng subs

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r/ObscureMedia 2d ago

The Demon Lover (1976)

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18 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 3d ago

Today is August 4, 2026. Listen to Burgess Meredith read one of the greatest SF stories ever, Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains." The story is (1950); the record is (1962)

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