The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video)

Art Of Noise · 8.6M views · 2016 · 3:26

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN mentions it mostly as a reference point in Max Headroom threads, as the essential Art of Noise tie-in to that 80s character.

What it is

The official 1986 music video for Paranoimia by Art of Noise featuring the computer-generated TV personality Max Headroom. It is a synth-pop and sampling-era piece of 80s pop culture.

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What Hacker News said

Cites cronix · 2021-11 · on “The Max Headroom Incident”

Hey, you can't talk about Max Headroom without talking about The Art of Noise. The Art of Noise (with Max Headroom) - Paranomia (1986): [this video]

Cites DonHopkins · 2021-11 · on “The Max Headroom Incident”

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Cites wrp · 2023-05 · on “The Lofi Magic of VHS Audio”

I'm surprised at how often I see adults rewatching Flight of the Navigator , even though it's very much a kid's movie. Harry and the Hendersons is particularly fun to watch now if you are a Poirot fan. Nostalgia tripping on the 1980s seems to rarely if ever include Max Headroom. To me, he was the essence of my high school zeitgeist. Maybe younger people today think he was too weird to have actually been a big deal. ( [this video] )