# Worst ever Pop Videos **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2001, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105 "2001-02-19T19:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/21 "2001-02-21T02:30:59Z")
Personally I think the last Hanson video I saw sucks really hard. The band takes a big old grandma-style RV to the desert, and then get on top and sing some horrid pop love song, while in the background lots of guys on dirt bikes do wheelies. Whoa, cool – dirt bikes! So stupid. Perhaps it doesn’t rate with Menudo … oh, hell, what am I saying, yes it does. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/22 "2001-02-21T03:03:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jekeira \* > \*\*Personally I think the last Hanson video I saw sucks really hard. The band takes a big old grandma-style RV to the desert, and then get on top and sing some horrid pop love song, while in the background lots of guys on dirt bikes do wheelies. > > Whoa, cool – dirt bikes! > > So stupid. Perhaps it doesn’t rate with Menudo … oh, hell, what am I saying, yes it does. \*\* Gosh…Hanson doing an almost-homage to _Priscilla: Queen of the Desert_… Whoda thunk it? [sub]Nice day for it![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/23 "2001-02-21T05:26:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*I hate to say this, because Yes is one of my all-time favorite bands, but… their video for “Leave It” from the “90125” LP was absolutely pathetic. It consisted of a single picture of the 5 members of the band. And this one picture just bent, and twisted, and turned, and inverted, and stretched, for a full 3 minutes. > > I have NO idea who thought that was a good idea! \*\* Ummmm, the cost accountant? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/24 "2001-02-21T12:13:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThisYearsGirl \* > **Another quite terrible video is that Mick Jagger and David Bowie cover of _Dancing in the Streets_. Pop-up Video informed me that they made up their own dances moves right then on the set–NO KIDDING!** That so-called video was just made up for **Live Aid** (Which, alarmingly, may have been before your time). That’s why it wasn’t rehearsed or flashed up to be anything too amazing - it was pure last minute. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/25 "2001-02-21T15:54:47Z")
also from that mtv special, i cant forget nelson and after the rain. this wasnt a video, it wuz a frickin mini-series. and worst of all, after the whole thing with the drunk dad and the trailer and the tears and nelson coming out of the poster on the wall and taking the kid to a honest to gosh nelson concert (possibly the only one, ever) they rub yer face in it by singing the refrain about 87 TIMES while doing that skid row thing with their impossibly long and straight and blonde hair. i believe that the cia has a copy and its made many other forms of torture obsolete. amnesty international has a case about it before the united nations as we speak… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105/26 "2001-02-21T19:57:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by essvee \* > \*\*i saw flock of seagulls, i am ashamed to say. just about the worst show i ever saw. (bonus hijack trivia question: what awe-inspiring punk groundbreakers did flock of seagulls steal their name from? [it wuz a line in a song]) \*\* The Stranglers! Great band. Good song. (Althought the one of theirs I really like was “Nice’n’Sleazy”.) All the more shame on Flock of Seagulls for disgracing it by association. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-ever-pop-videos/55105.md?page=1)