I expressed myself poorly. I apologize. I have absolutely no problem with Princes appearance (I never even noticed his horsey face :p) but that belly shirt he was wearing…
However, now that you and Monstro and Wooky have pointed out where Im going wrong Ill try to ignore appearance and enjoy an artists talent. I always have loved Prince.
That video is so bad it’s awesome.
And so is I’ll be Good by Rene and Angela.
I love Lizzo & everything she does, and I love the song “Water Me” but I don’t get the video. A bunch of people doing different things with water. The end.
Pet Shop Boys Paninero…a great cllub song but the vid has a strange vibe. Neil Tennant looks like a young Anthony Bourdain.
Pretty sure I passed Neil on a dirt road, heading the other way. I had a bad leg injury and was heading home as fast as I could, or I would have stopped and said hello. I gave a half-hearted wave and motored on.
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The decent song but embarrassing video by Billy Squier that ruined his career.
[/QUOTE]This is commonly accepted, but I really wonder if that was the cause. He’s put out several albums since that horrible video, has anyone here given them a listen? If the video truly ruined him, then those albums should contain catchy songs with great guitar riffs. His talent should remain. I listened to some of his later stuff several years back on YouTube and decided there was a real reason why his star fell. He wouldn’t be the first nor last to lose the thread.
I was fascinated by that video back in the 80s.
Looking back on it now … yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking.
ZZ Top is one of my favorite bands of all time, but their videos don’t serve them well. "Gimme All Your Loving"could make for a great video, but didn’t.
Best not to think about it too much at all. It is quirky certainly but clearly an arty dance piece perfectly in keeping with previous New Order videos.
I’m no fan of dance in general and I’d take it over myriad mass-ensemble over-choreographed monstrosities of the mid-80’s. (yes Mr. Jackson I’m looking at you).
I think its a very good and creative video. The fact that it is still interesting 35 years later tells me that it achieved its purpose as a work of art.
99 Red Balloons by Nena, when it came out circa 1983, seemed like the first of… well, something. A specific type of German-fueled New Wave with a message, girl power that was a tonic for the disappointment that was the Go-Gos and the Bangles. The German-language video was kind of nice. The American, English-language video chopped up the original footage, made it look even more super-cheap, and did such a disservice to the song that, as far as I know, she never had another hit in the States.
Dexy’s Midnight Runners had a hit with Come on Eileen. The video always made me want to take a shower afterward. Like as if smellevison was a thing, it would clear the room.
I would have loved to meet Neil. He wrote in his books (interesting tour journals mostly) about how uncomfortable he was with fans trying to catch him to talk to him. Neil may have talked to you, depending on his mood. Or he may have sent his security guy (who always traveled with him) to ask you politely to leave Neil alone.
I’m not sure that he ever enjoyed touring and hanging out with fans. It was something he endured for the band and Alex and Geddy. He enjoyed playing and recording but never got used to the limelight.
I’ve never enjoyed the video to "The Distance by Cake. Love the song, though.
The same choreographer, Philippe Decouflé, also did Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy”. That’s marginally less eccentric and works better.
Imagine being a dancer in his troupe.
Top five for one-two punch songs but…is this the best they can do?
Their “Pretty Woman” video is also…mehhh
So many of these videos might be dated but I don’t think most of them are bad. I won’t argue that Pat Benetar’s “Shadows of the Night” belongs on anyone’s top ten list but it isn’t bad. Nena’s 99 Red Balloons? Yeah, that’s bad. “Come on Eileen” isn’t all that great either. And notice how they don’t have a drummer by the end of the video? Supposedly he either quit or was fired because the lead singer was a douche.
Kevin Rowland. This is a bad song and a bad video.
And a young Bill Paxton! As a Nazi! Judge Reinhold was in that video, too.
It pre-dated MTV; what were you expecting?
“Pretty Woman” was banned by MTV because of the whole gender-switching thing.