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

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

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".

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Jump is, at least, made amusing by how bloody wasted they all are. I'm amazed at how they remain standing! Worst Van Halen video? "Pretty Woman." Someday, I want someone to tell me what the hell they were thinking!