Made to show the world why the British are always cast as the evil, decadent Romans.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds Tuff Enuff. The female dancers play construction workers. The guys show the world why Austin is considered the British Rome of Texas.
But nobody can beat the British
In Steve Miller’s video for “Abracadabra” (sorry, can’t access YouTube at work for the link) a girl pirouettes toward the camera and crashes right into it.
The dancing bit in Jason Mraz’s “You and I Both,” costarring the always delicious Lizzy Caplan.
The video with Naomi Campbell wasting a sexy dance on Michael Jackson, and to top it off the song was In the Closet.
THIS.
Another one is Paula Abdul hanging out with a cartoon cat. That was just pathetic.
Ahh the '80s…
My contribution is Aldo Nova’s ‘Fantasy’. A great guitarist and great song…but the video didn’t age well.
Secret-agent rockers, Aldo in a leopard jumpsuit and cowboy boots, and the great guitar-laser at 1:20. I physically wince watching this video, man it was so cool back in the day.
Around the time “British Steel” came out, and he cut his hair and donned all that leather and cop glasses, I always (even as a kid) cast a Spockian eyebrow at him - the way he’d strut and preen onstage - he always created the impression that he was trying too hard to be metal, and cruising out on the stage in the motorbike sure didn’t help his cause - that was a source of comedy for me. I guess he really, really, really wanted to shed his previous pseudo-prog/hippie phase. (or whatever the fuck one calls it)
A band I always thought were a bunch of of deadbeat fuzznuts - Savatage - put out a truly buttworthy video called “In The Hall of the Mountain King”. Bad enough it featured a scared witless dwarf(?) midget(?) (I never get them right) scuttling about, all agog and flustered, but there’s also a couple moments in particular that had the appeal of a puddle of vaguely greenish calf’s diarrhea - at 2:37, buddy wickedly smiles as smoke comes out of is mouth, and then at 3:06, another close-up of buddy going “no no no no” into the camera.
I didn’t really need that in my life.
oh right…said video…(lol if I must)…
The video for Buffalo Stance Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (Official Music Video) - YouTube is just so busy with so many weird colors all over and so many cuts and stuff zooming in an and out or coming in from off screen for half a second before something else replaces it that I’m surprised it didn’t give anyone seizures.
Journey factoid: Their keyboardist, Jonathan Cain, recently married televangelist Paula White. IIRC, a 4th marriage for both of them. :eek:
For me, Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” was a terrible video that ruined a good song.
Bonnie Tyler -Total Eclipse of the Heart
So, so bad.
Some very shareable work there, thanks!
I wonder if anyone involved remembers making this or remembers why they shot this?
Thread is incomplete without…
Sondra Prill. I don’t know what she’s doing around 2:18. Being sultry? Spoilered due to somewhat NSFW content.
She was also on public access, in Florida I think. From what I’ve heard, she was 100% sincere.
Awesome. Reminds me of this.
I need to personally and genuinely thank-you, Harvey The Heavy, for the introduction of Sondra into my life. She would have been perfect fodder my public access tv thread.
Otherworldly - some of the notes she hits in the link below, especially @ :42 (“ex-treeeeeeeeeme!”) and @ :54 (“bad dreeeeeeeeaam!”):
That possibly-not-respectful phone-in caller getting cut off at the end - another special moment.
Again, I cannot thank you enough, from the very cockles of my heart.
Whoa! A youtube shred appearing in such an esteemed, venerable website as this one:
Funny coincidence - I toyed with the idea of a SDMB “shreds” thread, so if you don’t mind the temporary hijack, my fave shred (featuring a band that I thought were always a buncha fuzznuts posers):
What do I win?
You’re very welcome. Anything to promote the arts.
Here’s a better quality video of “Nasty Boys” as it premiered live on the cable access show, with more crank calls afterwards
R.e. Rob Halford videos, I think what strikes people as funny is that some of them were made before most people knew he’s gay and the leather & studs look was supposed to be Hardcore Awesome Manly Metal. With 20/20 hindsight, a video like "Hot Rockin’ " is kinda hilarious:
- YouTube (the first 40 seconds is all you really need)
My personal favorite for Worst Video Ever is Celine Dion’s cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long”. It’s not about lousy special effects or cheesy production or anything like that, it’s just Celine Dion trying to convince people that she’s a Hard Rocking Mama:
I just noticed that the "category" for the video is "comedy".Anyone with no talent can make a crappy song/video. Film me singing anything and it’ll suck, I guarantee. Celine Dion, however, has talent. She can really sing and she’s hugely successful and has this massive Vegas show. She’s just totally out of her element here.
This is better than Spinal Tab. My Gawd :eek:!
I feel sooooo much better about my life choices after watching that.
Dammit, you took mine shakes fist. But at least I can provide theliteral version.