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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-01-30 11:09 am
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Awesomely bad videos

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
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[identity profile] pauldrye.livejournal.com 2004-01-30 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
The worst video I can think of off-hand is Van Halen's "Jump". I mean, here was a band pulling in multiple millions of dollars at the time, and they spent about twenty bucks on a completely black set and a camera, then filmed themselves in pseudo-concert.

Best video I've seen lately is Colplay's "Trouble", but discounting technical advances that just make the videos look better, I've a certain fondness for the Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime".

[identity profile] jarlsberg71.livejournal.com 2004-01-30 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I really like the Kylie Minogue video to come into my world as through each verse they add yet another kyle to the screen where she walks around in a daily routine with the previous kylies in the background. So many Kylie's it almost makes me wish I were straight so I could fully appreciate it.

The video I love to hate would me Army of Me my Bjork. I love Bjork but it's weird beyond her even....

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2004-01-30 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No one who lived through the age when MTV actually, y'know, played videos most of the time will forget the style of A-Ha's "Take On Me."

Worst? Blotted out, thankfully.
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[personal profile] kengr 2004-01-30 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
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!
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