Worst popular song/worst video combo of all time? [Archive]

OUDoc

11/13/2007, 01:13 PM

Got to be here, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPikUPlRD8) although I always thought Debbie Harry was hot. :)

Widescreen

11/13/2007, 01:32 PM

Peter Cetera - Glory of Love

JohnnyMack

11/13/2007, 01:34 PM

Why do you hate Mr. Miyagi?

crawfish

11/13/2007, 01:38 PM

Huh. I don't remember ever seeing the "Rapture" video.

sooneron

11/13/2007, 01:49 PM

Rapture vid has Warhol, therefore, it pwns. Not to mention JM Basquiat and Fab Five.

This thread sucks

sooneron

11/13/2007, 01:51 PM

This is laughably bad, yet cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU

sooneron

11/13/2007, 01:52 PM

RJD had a habit of making crappy ones...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ_FgL5l1og

great song

JohnnyMack

11/13/2007, 01:53 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orW2NXQZg8U

What do I win?

sooneron

11/13/2007, 01:56 PM

OOps I misread the thread title. I thought it was good rock songs.

soonerbrat

11/13/2007, 02:00 PM

Lionel Richie's "hello"

stupid stupid stupid video

sooneron

11/13/2007, 02:01 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k

I re-submit

sooneron

11/13/2007, 02:02 PM

I dare ANY of you to make it all the way through this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2STHc7VE8

KC//CRIMSON

11/13/2007, 02:11 PM

Got to be here, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPikUPlRD8) although I always thought Debbie Harry was hot. :)

Blasphemy! That's a classic.:cool:

Jeopardude

11/13/2007, 02:13 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orW2NXQZg8U

What do I win?

You won my vote although Separate Ways by Journey is pretty close.

sooneron

11/13/2007, 02:14 PM

Blasphemy! That's a classic.:cool:
No ****, that was many a white boy's first introduction to rap.

Partial Qualifier

11/13/2007, 02:16 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

oh and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4

JohnnyMack

11/13/2007, 02:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

Are you high? That video rocked!!

JohnnyMack

11/13/2007, 02:19 PM

And don't act like this video isn't awesome.

Cuz it's been known to rock faces off without warning:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5qW0Edq1KqI

sooneron

11/13/2007, 02:20 PM

I'm thinking of negging PQ and Doc into bolivian. Many a time I have done the dexy dance. Drunken dexy dance.

sooneron

11/13/2007, 02:21 PM

And don't act like this video isn't awesome.

Cuz it's been known to rock faces off without warning:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5qW0Edq1KqI
Any video with at least one midget is teh win.

Hamhock

11/13/2007, 02:23 PM

don't you people have jobs?

OUDoc

11/13/2007, 02:36 PM

rufnek05

11/13/2007, 03:23 PM

This is laughably bad, yet cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU

we came up with Mcgiver lyrics for this song. They were great.

sooneron

11/13/2007, 03:27 PM

You guys are smoking something if you think "Rapture" isn't a crappy video. DH is horrible at rapping, and that video is just.............strange. :)
And, I liked it 25 years ago, looking back, it's bad.
It was made over 25 years ago. I don't think there was a well made video until Duran Duran came around and decided to sink some change into the budget.
Here's an idea, show me a great video that is pre-1982 that is not Duran Duran's - Girls on Film. Almost everything out back then was picked up from some Solid Gold Broadcast.

Partial Qualifier

11/13/2007, 03:29 PM

sure it's bad Doc, but at least it had Debbie Harry and *some* artistic quality, as cheesy as it was! The song was okay too. Great thread btw.

It's worrisome to know JM liked that a-Ha video and sooneron admitted to "Many a time I have done the dexy dance. Drunken dexy dance."

:eek: :eek: :eek: ;)

Fugue

11/13/2007, 03:29 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsiPtvfdvDY

"trying to make dollah"

heh

sooneron

11/13/2007, 03:37 PM

It's worrisome to know JM liked that a-Ha video and sooneron admitted to "Many a time I have done the dexy dance. Drunken dexy dance."

:eek: :eek: :eek: ;)
I guess you don't appreciate the fact that the a ha vid was as groundbreaking as it was. I could care less about the song, but the video is considered a classic.
It's ok, some people are creative and they think outside the box, some, just don't.

SanJoaquinSooner

11/13/2007, 04:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUod3jGQt0U

oh and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9bPrUark4

I believe the Take On Me video was considered to be artistically groundbreaking - one of the top 100 videos. In my opinion the song itself is rather ordinary, though.

on the other hand, Come on Eileen is a dippy video but a decent song.

Partial Qualifier

11/13/2007, 05:34 PM

I believe the Take On Me video was considered to be artistically groundbreaking -

by comic-book collectors, maybe?? ;)

A little too cute for my blood! I can appreciate what the creator was trying to do but calling that thing groundbreaking......someone was searching for filler in their "100 best" list. Both those songs and their respective videos made me cringe - just my opinion. It's all subjective.

the Squier vid posted by JM gets a perfect 10 for cringe-factor from me. It's funny how your mind blocks out certain things to, you know, protect you

Partial Qualifier

11/13/2007, 05:49 PM

Here's an idea, show me a great video that is pre-1982 that is not Duran Duran's - Girls on Film. Almost everything out back then was picked up from some Solid Gold Broadcast.

by 'great' are you talking about concept, or just plain cinematography?

1980: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44OFO-MNPo

StoopTroup

11/13/2007, 06:28 PM

This one was pretty bad...

It got lots of airplay...

Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnJOsfalSYs)

Jerk

11/13/2007, 07:58 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buIkPVqys1U

They played that stupid song so many times over back in 2003 that I became enraged and wanted to throw a hand grenade into the radio station. That was when I was working 15-18 hours a day and was pretty much pi.ssed off about everything.

KC//CRIMSON

11/13/2007, 08:16 PM

by 'great' are you talking about concept, or just plain cinematography?

1980: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44OFO-MNPo

Great video.

bonus cool video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5X7HKxpiQA

sooneron

11/13/2007, 11:04 PM

Ashes to Ashes is one of those videos where you don't turn away, but it is painful to watch as far the post production guy trying to "push the envelope" effects speaking. It was trying way too hard to be art.

Partial Qualifier

11/14/2007, 08:08 AM

Ashes to Ashes was a huge push of the envelope, conceptually speaking.

High-quality cinema and post-production work in music videos wasn't manstream until a few years later when Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, and everybody else suddenly had access to the same level of production previously enjoyed only by movie studios. And it wasn't an artistic breakthrough; it was a technology breakthrough.

To me... and again, this is highly subjective and you're entitled to your own opinion.. the concept is the art. I can appreciate your viewpoints and your aHa's and your Duran Durans too.... well, maybe not the aHa's............. ;)

sooneron

11/14/2007, 10:23 AM

Agree on the Ashes to Ashes concept, but the implementation was NG.

My issue is that it's not just the concept that is the art. It's the total package.

IB4OU2

11/14/2007, 10:33 AM

Pat Benetars "Love is a Battlefield" has to rank way up there.

sooneron

11/14/2007, 10:40 AM

Pat Benetars "Love is a Battlefield" has to rank way up there.
Yep, that little dance sequence was pretty much her death knell.

sooneron

11/14/2007, 10:49 AM

This pretty much makes me want to punch the screen...

http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist/1545933/9814/I_Love_The_90s_Music_Videos/Shiny_Happy_People/index.jhtml

Mixer!

11/14/2007, 11:44 AM

This pretty much makes me want to punch the screen...

http://www.vh1classic.com/view/playlist/1545933/9814/I_Love_The_90s_Music_Videos/Shiny_Happy_People/index.jhtml

But their knockoff version is teh win. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o)

bluedogok

11/14/2007, 11:45 PM

BAD was any video of Milli Vanilli..........

The a-Ha video "Take On Me" was the first one done using the Rotoscope technique for a music video, it had been used in the Heavy metal movie and other animated features. "The Sun Always Shines On TV" was a better song on that same album.

setem

11/14/2007, 11:54 PM

Worst song and video evar!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzI9aKmJ6g

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU

BAH!!! I don't hate the song at all! I just wanted to post it!

sooneron

11/14/2007, 11:56 PM

Worst song and video evar!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzI9aKmJ6g

Yeah, you may have just won it.

OUDoc

11/15/2007, 08:56 AM

Another chance to **** off sooneron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRNGbs26MNo

And he can't even pronounce "modern". ;)

sooneron

11/15/2007, 09:19 AM

Another chance to **** off sooneron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRNGbs26MNo

And he can't even pronounce "modern". ;)
You probably won't pizz me off with that one. FYI:texan: