17 Nostalgic and Weird Movie Tie-In Music Videos From The '80s and '90s

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Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I remember when a big movie was released, it usually came with a tie-in music video from a high-profile artist. Hell, they still do it today, only the videos aren’t as awkward now as they were then, and music videos were a much bigger deal back then than they are now.

Music movie tie-in videos are made to help further promote their films. These videos usually had decent-sized budgets, featured celebrity cameos from the movies they were promoting, and most of them clocked in at around five minutes long. Most of the time, they also turned out to be pretty weird and ridiculous. 

My kids are huge fans of The Goonies, and I recently showed them Cyndi Lauper’s music video for the film, which they loved. But it got me to thinking about all the other awkward nostalgic movie tie-in music videos that have been made over the years, and I’ve posted a collection of them below for you to enjoy. I'd have to say one of my favorites is for Dragnet, because listening to Tom Hanks rap is awesome!

What were some of your favorite movie tie-in music videos when you were growing up? 

The Goonies - Cyndi Lauper 

Cyndi Lauper's official music video for 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough'. Click to listen to Cyndi Lauper on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CyndiLauperSpotify?IQid=CyndiLTGRG As featured on The Essential Cyndi Lauper.

Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Parker, Jr.'s official music video for 'Ghostbusters'. Click to listen to Ray Parker, Jr on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/RPJSpot?IQid=RPJG As featured on Ghostbusters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Click to buy the track or album via iTunes:http://smarturl.it/RPJGiTunes?IQid=RPJG Google Play: http://smarturl.it/RPJGPlay?IQid=RPJG Amazon: http://smarturl.it/RPJGAm?IQid=RPJG More great Ultimate Hits Of The Nineties videos here: http://smarturl.it/UHNPlaylist?IQid=RPJG More from Ray Parker, Jr.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Vanilla Ice 

NINJA RAP T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE! http://www.zazzle.com/instantclassics?rf=238949880716836107 This is the music video from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 movie back in '91. Here is the restored, HD version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAs

Men In Black - Will Smith

Batman Forever - Seal

Seal - Kiss From A Rose OST Batman Forever Please subscribe if you like this vid )

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Guns N' Roses

Guns n' Roses - You Could Be Mine Album - Use Your Illusion II Label - Geffen more stuff about me ______________________________ instagram - @luiggi_marchetti ------------------------------------------------- facebook - luiggi_marchetti ------------------------------------------------- http://luiggi26.deviantart.com/

Highlander - Queen

Awesome rock video by Queen from the soundtrack to the 1986 feature film "Highlander". Great stage performance intercut with clips from the movie. There can be only one!

Wild Wild West - Will Smith and Dru Hill

Will Smith Ft. Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee - Wild... by magicgg91

Howard the Duck - The Cherry Bombs

Uploaded by WildeKaiser2 on 2010-07-16.

Dragnet - Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd 

remastered audio by GUILLERMO SOTO.

The Addams Family - MC Hammer

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Ghostbusters 2 - Bobby Brown 

Bobby Brown - On Our Own Soundtrack from Ghostbusters 2 1989

Deep Blue Sea - LL Cool J 

LL Cool J - deepest bluest (Deep Blue Sea)

Batman - Prince 

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - Dokken

From the article at: http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/dokken-dream-warriors Here's Dokken's classic "Dream Warriors" music video that we all saw on MTV back when A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was just coming out.

Short Circuit - El DeBarge

Godzilla - Puff Daddy

This question has been asked one too many times and it looks like everyone is either too lazy or useless to search for the answer in the comments so here it is: The song at the begining is Between The Sheets by the Isley Brothers.