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  • Steve Perry's Oh sherrie came out 2 months before this video in spring 84.

  • The guy with the dumb bells is the drummer Donny Baldwin,the blonde is NOT Grace Slick---the hooded door keeper is Slick...

  • This class. 

  • Great song, but a beyond-stupid video that was exactly the kind that Steve Perry's "Oh, Sherry" video sought to mock.

  • love this song...isn't it in "Vice City"?

  • Is that a band member with the dumbbells?

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  • i think the blonde is also grace slick.Anyone know for sure

  • chk out that Mickey Thomas 80's porn star stache' !!!!

  • Hit #1 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart for 1 week on July 21, 1984

  • There is no good pop music now because record companies care more about looks and fashion,no exceptions.let's eliminate the cheese in the music industry.

  • Hey......Father Guido Sarducci :) he was a classic on old SNL.

  • @feulman65

    So where is the "Pope In The Pizza"?

  • Dam I thought this video was cool back when it came out on mtv . What the hell was I smoke'n back then LMAO

  • @Grimdog82nd EXACTLY what I was thinkin...

  • find the Pope in the pizza .

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  • Is that Father Guido Sarducci from SNL in the hat?

  • @ycdtotv2001 It is!

  • @darwinbulldog - No offense, but if you think today's music is better, I'm glad I don't know you.

  • @parallax3d You are one smart person!! I completley agree!!!!

  • I love the 80s girls at 2:43

  • this music is just AMAZING! it makes me feel very nice, it has that 80´s unique style, I ve been a lot of time trying to know the name of this music and finally I got it, this is one of the most succesful music in the 80's!

  • Great song, sucks that the oldies, classic rock and the 80s stations never play this song yet they still play "Sara", "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" all the time, this song should have been a much bigger hit than #23 IMO

  • Weird video, but you gotta love Father Sarducci as the Priest....Huichol53......

  • Go see Rock of Ages...it brings it alllll back!

  • it seems this video was edited. i remember seeing the clip where he is out on the street with those chicks and they were surrounded by a crowd and everyone was flipping off the camera. back then, it escaped being recognized.

    even then, people rejected starship.

  • Great song - terrible video.

  • @iamTorgo Agreed,Torgo,agreed. The Master would not approve of such rubbish as this video. Not to mention, "No Way Out" would also be the Masters motto at the good old Hodge Podge Lodge. Damn it,Torgo...get our bags! Were leaving!

  • One minute your there in that time without realizing (I was 17 years old) that someday music like this will be gone. Yes, I lived the 80's and I know what it was like back then. Not all music today sucks but back in 1984 songs like this were coming out all the time. No auto tune, just God given talent.

  • I forgot about this one. I haven't seen it since 1984. There would be no reason to see it. Great song though.

  • Love this song, but the video is a bit odd.

    

  • I this point grace just accepted her role in JS as a fixture and band member's piece, awesome.

    It's like Greg Rolie and Steve Perry, except Rolie wasn't going around with any Journey member.....so he faded eventually.

    Grace was so hot in the late 60's early 70's, so hot.

  • The 80s rocked. No internet, facebook, cell phones, actual music videos on MTV, arcade games,....what a simpler life.

  • No offense, but if you don't think there's music today that's substantially better than this I'm glad I don't know you.

  • @darwinbulldog

    Never mind.

  • Father Guido SarDucci NICE!!!

  • Damn I miss the 80's. I feel like music has went straight into the shitter.

  • @n2motocross that's because it did go straight into the crapper! :(

  • @n2motocross AGREED !!!!!!!

  • it's hard to believe no one remembers the famed "nipple slip' at 2:44..... so quick mtv didn't censor it......... sad what become of the great 60's band.... can't believe Kantner was still around for this dribble

  • i still love this song, BUT upon revisiting the video, i have to ask, what in the hell were they thinking!!! this and sara are my favorite jefferson STARSHIP songs. and how many times did they change their name? poor grace slick... she was like, "fck yall, i'm out"

  • @undergroundcactus they had to change the name for legal reasons when certain members left. I'm no big fan (my wife is)

    Saw some Bio a while back Grace has said in interviews in so many words she was getting to old. Also remember her saying something like she was tired of "Another top 10 song" or something like that.

  • Makes the video for We Built This City look like a masterpiece.

  • Horrible video, great song. God, I miss the 80's. The last decade for truly great music.

  • This song IMO should have made the Top 10, it's really disappointing that this song only went to a modest #23 on Billboard

  • JS hit #23 in Billboard, 7-21-84. 1st album where they started lookin' for more outside songs. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

  • horrible video-great song

  • i think that mite have been the worst video ive ever seen... im talkn bad

  • I had totally forgot about this song! I love it! This video sucks though. TOTAL CHEESE. It disrespects the musical talents of Mickey, Grace, and the rest of the band. Takes away from the real music. But then,,,,that's the how the video's of the 80's went. Still a great song, and great vocal range from Mickey.

  • The blonde has difficulty smiling.

  • Out of school in 83'.Spent this summer as a roofer and I remember this song playing on the radio while working without a single care in the world.Great song and sometimes bittersweet to hear.

  • This Band did'nt have 2 do Much Great Song!!!

  • great song...great summmer that year. I still dig the blonde from the video

  • Awesome song and reminds me of much better days gone by...but that video, wht were we thinking back then????

  • FYI.. those goofy voiceover/effects parts are in the original video. Strange but true. I remember it very well.

  • At least some of the voice overs in this video are not original.

  • Dud your video sucks.

  • @minimeanr dude - it's not the poster's video - this was the video the band put together for MTV............duh!!

  • Where is Rebecca

  • Even more, it amazes me how the band that sang White Rabbit became this band. MTV had a way of turning classic acts into pop drivel. But, for nostalgia's sake, I love this video!

  • This video needs to be put in a time capsule. So random and cheesy and totally early 80's MTV.

  • I love the 80's ... Great music ... good times ... that will never be forgotten ....

  • Play the mp3 while playing the video on silent. It works great!

  • ruined the dam song with all those stupid noises cant hear a fuckin thing

  • corney as ever, love it, wish it were 1984 again

  • Who is the women in this video??

  • @abc991954 Don't know but I always thought she looked like Grace Slick & it was her sister but Grace doesn't have a sister.

  • This was no sell out. This song is a result of a musical progression that took years. Starship could rock with the best and produce a soulful hit like this too. It's called balance and having a sense of where you and your audience are. But that "We built this city" crap is another story.

  • Got to love the stolen shot on the shot on the street with the guy flashing the fingers.

  • DEAN WINCHESTER

    

  • hahahaha! dumbells rule!

    

  • Fantastic Video For A Fantastic Song!!!!!!!!!

  • I always did remember this video being quite strange, but the tune is quite moving.

  • Am I the only one who thinks this video stinks as badly as the Kevin Costner movie of the same name? Good song, awful video. So-so actor, far worse movie!

  • Like being in a failed marriage, NO WAY OUT. Never get married F-that.

  • This has kantners fingerprints all over it.........never understood the hate mickey gets......he didnt ruin anything paul still thinks its the 60s hes a sad sad bitter old man now.......he mocks the starship yrs for no reason other to act like hes some great musician.....please.....he felt the group was selling out at this point....were they? Prolly a little but they wanted to stay relevant not sing some acid driven whacked out poem that paul thought they shoukd still be doing.......he missed o

  • Everything was theater. Now it's just demonic garbage.

  • 4 people have no way out.

  • Is anyone else noticing the resemblence between Mick and Father guido Sarducci? They could be brothers!

  • Light years better than We Built This City and of course,Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

  • i would have killed to live back then so kids actually would b in to wat i am... todays world suks

  • i love grace slick

  • 2:18 Whatcha doin' today? Nothin' much dude, just lifting some weights in bed with my permed mullet and molestache.

  • Crap video for a great tune. Was disappointed back in the 80s when I finally saw this. The Solid Gold performance was better.

  • This was the first cd I ever bought, back when cd's were brand new to the market. It was either "Nuclear Furniture" by this group, or "She's So Unusual" by Cyndi Lauper. When cd's were brand new, classical came out first, then "current" rock and pop titles were out on cd usually six months after the record and tape release. Cd's cost around $18 new at the time, 1983 I believe. I remember how cool it was not hearing distortion and record scratches. Hearing music reproduced using a laser!

  • i love this song/i love the 80's

  • Yeah , I liked father Sarducci and what little was left of creativity. Huichol53.......

  • Girls looked better and more natural from this era for some reason. Is it just me or am I day dreaming?

  • wish we could go back in time~ I would stay forever in the 80's~

  • Micky Thomas' voice is so pure and unaffected. Fantastic singer.

  • Another intersting situation of the 80's was that in 1987 the only female rock soft ballad was from the group HEART and the song was ALONE..... Wow every other girl did dancing music or freestyle!

  • Bet that's Gracie's house coat there. After all, she's not your average girl. Only thing I don't like about this video is the sound effects... they really overpower the song. But I love it.

  • mickey thomas or marty balin

  • @supermanfan62  Thomas

  • This is back when MTV was at it's best

  • @BrnEyezMikey  Indeed!

  • @BrnEyezMikey When MTV use to play music videos!

  • these were the good days, fun times and unbelievable creativity. And don't forget your tab or cap of acid (smile).......

  • back then it was better...yeah the cold war was on but at 12 i wasnt so worried about that...back then girls looked like GIRLS..they smelled like girls..they wore skirts they owned stockings..they would walk by you in the mall and you would pass out from the wonderful smell fo thier hair and perfume..regan probably had alzheimers but we did ok lol.

  • That damn grace slick ruins the video with that stupid talking shit.

  • @needtolooselots Thank God it was only in the video! Peace

  • Mickey Thomas ruined that group

  • mtv was the deal.......great videos....great vjs.....today its garbage.

  • We have anything on MTV ,so called music television, but music videos. Is this only on russian MTV or it become worldwide?

  • who s the father cant remeber may be father gochie someone tell me

  • @wd68daytripper.... It's Father Guido Sarducci

  • who are the damned 3 who don't like this awsome ,timeless song????!!!!!!!!!!!

  • everything is garbage today even the dollar totally trash, from low class uneducated americans who vote w/o any intelligence, how to escape a sinking ship,,, well you better run and you better hide for there is no way out none what ever . the little cinderella fairly tale is destroyed just sit and cry it is all over but the crying. b

  • ah, yes, the foreigner intro

  • 1984 was an awesome year for music, just outta high school. this album and the two before it were some of their best works. modern times and nuclear furniture.

  • @egapkram I consider 1984 to be one of the best years of pop music of all time, of the 1980s music I consider 1983 and 1984 to be the best years of 80s music

  • @egapkram I was also leaving high school in 84. I worked at Wherehouse records near Standford University.

    This song along with many groups like Talk Talk, Hall N Oates, Prince, Duran Duran, Julian Lennon, Talking Heads, Fishbone, early Red Hot Chili peppers, Madness and ho so many others kept the 80's very memorable especially compared to this GAAAAAAAARBAGE of today.

    Yuck music I call it. Just turn that Bieber crap off please.

  • Okay, I always liked this song but wow, what a lame ass video!!! Don't recall ever seeing this back then, I guess that's a good thing........

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  • Gotta love Father Guido Sarducci!

  • @gizmokc Amen!

  • @gizmokc Wait isn't that the priest from Casper??

  • @marshlm1989: Yes, that's the priest from Casper, but more prominently, the "priest from Casper" is Father Guido Sarducci -- a character created long ago and seen most frequently on Saturday Night Live (in years past).

  • ahaha .....look at Grace !!! Probably had to pay her double just to wear that ensemble.

    LOVE LOVE  the song though.

  • This video...?

  • I was 13 in 1984 and remember this video like it was yesterday. Love that era... So sad those days are gone. Everything was perfect back then and I didn't even know it...

  • @jfuentezhd Everything wasn't PERFECT, but I did like 80s music (I was 16 when this song came out). But then, people who were teenagers in the 1970s thought THEIR life was perfect, and pretty much EVERY generation thinks that...

  • @jfuentezhd I was 12...everything was perfect in those days, I WANNA GO BACK TO THE 80's!!!!!!!

  • @jfuentezhd you took the words right out of my mouth ... we were blessed and ripped off at the same time ... I thought the 21st century would be a 1000 times better than the 80s ... dam i sure was wrong about that one.

  • I was 12...ditto to everything you just said. That's exactly how I feel about it too.

    "Everything was perfect and I didn't...know it." If that alone wasn't a melancholy recollection, add to it the horrible economic disaster and social unrest this country is about to experience...

    How I wish we could go back and just stay there sometimes.

  • @jfuentezhd Nobody knows what he has till its gone!

    I was only 11 in 1984

  • @jfuentezhd

    Oh, darlin, you and even those of us older...truly the best days ever, for music, and for MY life.

  • @jfuentezhd I was 11

  • @jfuentezhd - Most of the 80s were wretched; after 1984, things went downhill FAST. I blame Reagan who basically ruined everything. Once Reaganism set it, the psychopaths were in charge.

  • @lipby The whole world went to pieces when Reagan the Anti-Christ took power. All the love we were beginning to show for one another was eradicated and replaced with greed. Corporations were given a free reign, no regulations and look where we are today. It became the start of the "Me" times and it hasn't ended. In fact it's getting worst. No longer do we have a sense of love or care about our human family, only dollars & "cents" the bottom line. "Step on your fellow human to get ahead" Reagan

  • @shinylite54 So true. With music, movies and most other pop culture reflecting the sign of the times we are living in. I am also guilty of this selfish and hedonistic behavior myself, as a byproduct of social engineering. I mean let's face it, we live in a very rapidly changing and competitive world now, but I am trying my best to remember what is most important in my life and helping out the underdog.

  • @jmoussa1987 It's always good to hear from the "gentle spirits" that this world so desperately needs. Thanks for being one. Love&Light, Shinylite

  • @jmoussa1987 Good words spoken. I am there with you on that sentiment at the end of the day..."best to remember what is most important in my life and helping out the underdog."

  • @shinylite54 Yup, there was such thing as sin or greed until Reagan arrived on scene. Get real.

  • @izner1 I'm not saying these things didn't exist before Reagan, I'm merely implying that "acceptance" of these issues became more of the "norm," with the election of Reagan. He changed Corporate America into a beast. That's what you're feeling now. If jobless... go to some third world country to get a job, that's where America's corporations have "shipped" it's loyalties, for $3.00 an hour!

  • @lipby Naw....once he LEFT office, things went to Shit.

  • @jfuentezhd Everything was perfect because you were thirteen years old, didn't know anything, and had no responsibilities. The good old days are never as good in reality as you think they were.

  • @Cuteblondie1972 i too was 11in '84 and your right it is an awesome song

  • MTV Sneak Preview Video

  • Es una espectacular cancion, siempre estara dentro de mis mejores recuerdos...It is a spectacular song, you will always be in my best memories...THAT GOOD SONG..!!!

  • Great song....too bad the loud sound effects ruin the song.

  • This is IMO MTV at its golden peak

  • I don't like the video but I really love this song a lot, for some reason parts of this song sounds like Foreigner's "Waiting For a Girl Like You'.

  • @Doobie1975 i agree...........a great song, but the video is kinda corny and dumb.

  • Great song, I can understand why this song wasn't nearly as popular as "We Built This City", "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "Sara" when IMO this song is way better than these three songs I've mentioned

  • I remember seeing this video for the first time on Solid Gold.

  • This song is great

  • the unfortunate reality that a song titled " no way out" never made it into an 80's horror movie is a comedic tradegy

  • This has to be the most cheesy video of the 80's. Along with Safety Dance.

  • @Grapes428

    Agreed. I absolutely love the song, but the video is cheesy. Still, a lot of videos were cheesy back then (look at *any* of the Aldo Nova ones), so it "fits" :)

  • I was 19 when this song came out and was thousands of miles from my home and family and was in an abusive relationship and I remember singing this song over and over feeling like I too had "No Way Out". I did make it out though :)

  • before things got *ugly* between all of them. Early era MTV is both a beginning and an end to an era.

  • I first hear this song on a rural drive during a full moon. I didn't know the band. I never thought I'd hear the song again. It blew my &*(%$ mind. Such an awesome experience. Hearing it here can't re-create that experience. But it is damned close.

  • One of the weirdest videos of the 80s - and that's saying a lot! Not bad song,

  • What's Guido (Sarducci) doing in this vid? That's him isn't it?

    Great song. Last good album Starship put out as Jefferson Starship.

  • this song is from 84 not 85.

  • great inmortal song, weird pointless video...

  • One of best rock tunes from the 80's...still holds up, weird video though.

  • I haven't seen this video in about 25 years. A lot of videos at that time had a substory that was "science-fiction-y", some alternate parallel universe sort of thing. Yeah, sometimes it was corny, but they were creative. Videos in the last 15 years give me the impression that they are so high-budget that no one dare make a mistake of making the video anything outside of a small box of accepted themes. I'd rather have interesting and creative than cool.

  • wow what a dumb video.

  • joint alert at 4:50 courtesy of Paule K........nice!!

    obviously it went right over MTV executives, no one noticed.

  • @1251wire They didn't do drugs, they were a rock band.

  • Oh, it is time to admit my age. Of all of the records that I had as a kid, this is one of the remaining 6. The others are from Chicago. Now all I have to do is find a record player to enjoy all of the "pop's" and everything else associated with the sound of vinal

  • Grace Slick é fodaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I would really like to meet her someday, I've already seen Mickey Thomas, Paul Kantner and Marty Balin live! WOW

  • From the album Nuclear Furniture

  • o do bigode parece o Belchior...

  • Got to see Mickey Thomas & Starship back in Summer 2000, which was a very cool concert experience! Glad to still be a fan of this 80's pop powerhouse :)

    Nuclear Furniture (which includes "No Way Out") & Love Among The Cannibals are my most fav albums of theirs