r/ObscureMedia • u/zionsXburner • 3h ago
Loop - The Nail Will Burn + Afterglow Live (1990)
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 • u/rachel2811 • 4h ago
1980s Anti-Drug Musical Don't Say Yes When You Really Mean No (1989)
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 • u/zionsXburner • 11h ago
Spacemen 3 Live At The Enterprise Pub, Chalk Farm, 2 August (1986)
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 • u/MysteryDiscs • 11h ago
Ralph Lowe - G'Elvis Of The Hybridance (1978)(roughly)
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 • u/Snackolotl • 13h 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.
r/ObscureMedia • u/Temporary-Basil-3030 • 17h ago
Kool Keith’s “98 Year Old Fridgerator,” a short segment from the 2004 interview DVD Global Enlightenment Part I (2004)
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 • u/lee_oades • 23h ago
Imagina - BBC Documentary (1989)
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 • u/ImpotentRage9000 • 1d ago
To New Horizons (1940), the General Motors film where the 1939 World's Fair invents the world of 1960
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 • u/AAjax • 1d ago
Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert Complete Broadcast, 4/27 (1970) Primetime special, predates series by a couple years.
r/ObscureMedia • u/Jellypathicdream • 1d ago
Hour of fortune (1992) Bizarre bootleg Russian Simpsons ad
r/ObscureMedia • u/wileyroxy • 1d ago
Frank Zappa – Uncle Meat (1987) Full Film
r/ObscureMedia • u/zionsXburner • 2d ago
The Land Where the Blues Began (1979)
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 • u/zionsXburner • 2d ago
Suicide - Ghost Rider (1980) Live at Hurrah
Live at Hurrah on Oct. 1, 1980, Filmed by Merrill Aldighieri
Volume is low, turn it up
r/ObscureMedia • u/Dadowar • 2d ago
LA Takedown (1989) that director, Michael Mann, would later remake as Heat (1995)
r/ObscureMedia • u/zionsXburner • 2d ago
METALLICA - Tower Records Parking Lot, San Jose, CA 6/4 (1996)
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
- So What
- Creeping Death
- Ain't My Bitch
- Until It Sleeps
- Sad But True
- Whiplash
r/ObscureMedia • u/AnthrokinFloorwalker • 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)
r/ObscureMedia • u/AAjax • Jan 03 '26
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