Awesomely bad videos

[gridlore]

We caught the best show on VH1 last night about really really bad videos. Very amusing. Which made me wonder.. What do y'all consider the best/worst music video of all time? Not based on the song, but just on the video itself.

For me?

Best Dire Straights - Money for Nothing. Yes, the computer animation was crude as hell, but it was perfect, had little in jokes (like the microwave setting for "heavy rotation"), the fake videos seen on the TVs, and the neon artwork over the band. I can watch that one over and over.

Worst Flock of Seagulls - I Ran. This looks like it was made by some talented high schoolers. We've got mirrors, mylar, women in bizarre make-up who walk like extras in a zombie movie, and of course the single least photogenic band of the New Wave movement. And the camera! It shows up every time the shaky turntable passes in front of a mirror! (They at least tried to cover the camera in mylar.) Awful.

and lastly, the Video that still creeps me out to this day and makes me twitch just thinking about it. Metallica - One

Comments

[kengr]

Well, I don't know if it counts as "best", but I *so* want a copy of Genesis' "Jesus He Loves Me" video. It is *so* subversive!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Which, in turn, reminds me of the video for "Land of Confusion," done by the Spitting Image puppet group. Another classic.

Re:

[kengr]

That's good too. Frankly, I wish there were more DVD collections of various music videos. I picked up one of Billy Joel's greatest hits (volume III). But that's just about the only one I've seen.

Lots of groups have more than enough videos to release one. And the ones that don't could go onto "compilation" DVDs of some sort.