[Music] A thread full of very obviously mimed songs

[Icy Gull]

https://youtu.be/-gfIgA-PYyQ

 

[Pintos]

https://youtu.be/RdSmokR0Enk

 

[AmexRuislip]

 

[Argartu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtJtbRXi3I

 

[Lethargic]

Anything on TV by New Order in the 80s.

 

[Wozza]

*cringe*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JIe8Zlvr4&ab_channel=aliveinsound

 

[zeemeeuw]

The story is that the the band where drinking during the shoot of this video and you can see them getting progressively more drunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbOHXMtelU

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

*cringe*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1JIe8Zlvr4&ab_channel=aliveinsound

Just in case anybody (everybody?) is wondering what gives...

'The song is well known for an incident on the popular BBC UK music show Top of the Pops, when the group, ready to do a mimed (as was BBC policy at the time) performance of their hit, were not played the backing track through their monitors, so they sat motionless while the television and studio audience could hear the song. Due to this error on the part of the BBC, the band were invited back the following week and insisted on playing the song live.'

 

[scooter1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtJtbRXi3I

But he signs(sic) live and changes the lyrics, and got a warning from Aunty Beeb

 

[W3 BHA]

Surely the answer is 'just about everything' nowadays, including so called 'live' concerts....but if you call it lip synching, it's fine!

(Obvs, I exclude proper bands and singers who still play instruments and sing properly!)

 

[Randy McNob]

 

[Yes Chef]

I was just about to post the very same, great song