MR

Hi everyone:

I want to do a series of articles about the worst classic rock videos of all time. So what are they? Give me your votes for the dumbest, the cheesiest, the outright worst videos the genre has ever known! Then I'm going to do one article per week, one video at a time. Should be fun!

Thanks! I hope everyone is doing well.

Sterling

Separate Ways

Rockwriter wrote:Hi everyone:

I want to do a series of articles about the worst classic rock videos of all time. So what are they? Give me your votes for the dumbest, the cheesiest, the outright worst videos the genre has ever known! Then I'm going to do one article per week, one video at a time. Should be fun!

Thanks! I hope everyone is doing well.

Sterling

Take Me In Your Arms Billy Queer
Safety Dance Men Without Brains,
Too Much Time On My Hands
And the one with the pig in the limo driving around Chicago in the 70's

Rock Me Tonight

Career killer right there.

Genesis - Land of Confusion. Just. Ugh.

Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonight. Agreeing with others here. Truly awful.

Tommy Shaw - Lonely School. That poofy hair! Sucky song.

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen. Fugly clothes. Fugly guys.


All I can think of right now.


Bugsy

Loverboy - Queen Of The Broken Hearts

April Wine - This Could be the Right One

All the videos from Paradise Theatre.

Music time

reo- one lonely night

MICKEY!!!!!! i swear, i thought some of those cheerleaders were men!

rock me tonight-billy squier
land of confusion-genesis
mr. roboto-styx
seperate ways-journey


i'll be back again when i think of more.

Rockwriter wrote:Hi everyone:

I want to do a series of articles about the worst classic rock videos of all time. So what are they? Give me your votes for the dumbest, the cheesiest, the outright worst videos the genre has ever known! Then I'm going to do one article per week, one video at a time. Should be fun!

Thanks! I hope everyone is doing well.

Sterling

Music Time?

One Lonely Night was a GREAT GREAT video. Great play on words by REO- kind of like you can tune a piano.....

JY's - Wild Dogs in the Night - by far the worst video ever. The 99 balloons was also pretty poor

Rockwriter wrote:Hi everyone:

I want to do a series of articles about the worst classic rock videos of all time. So what are they? Give me your votes for the dumbest, the cheesiest, the outright worst videos the genre has ever known! Then I'm going to do one article per week, one video at a time. Should be fun!

Thanks! I hope everyone is doing well.

Sterling

I would have to say DIO, Rainbow in the Dark. If memory serves me correctly it's the one were it's just him walking around a rooftop of a building singing the song. BORING!

Boomchild wrote:

Rockwriter wrote:Hi everyone:

I want to do a series of articles about the worst classic rock videos of all time. So what are they? Give me your votes for the dumbest, the cheesiest, the outright worst videos the genre has ever known! Then I'm going to do one article per week, one video at a time. Should be fun!

Thanks! I hope everyone is doing well.

Sterling

I would have to say DIO, Rainbow in the Dark. If memory serves me correctly it's the one were it's just him walking around a rooftop of a building singing the song. BORING!

His "Holy Diver" video isn't that good either

if you REALLY want a laugh - go to youtube and check out Aldo Nova's "Fantasy". Of course, I don't know if that would count as "classic" rock.....

cinj

Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart) is one of the single worst videos of all time. All Hell's Breakin' Loose by KISS and Lick it Up by KISS are almost equally as bad together although they are one of my top 3 favorite bands of all time. Motley's Too Young to Fall in Love is pretty lame as well as deserves a mention.

After reviewing various Styx' videos last night. I think they are all awful. Add in Dennis' Boomchild and Shaw Blades "I'll Always Be With You"

styxfanNH wrote:After reviewing various Styx' videos last night. I think they are all awful. Add in Dennis' Boomchild and Shaw Blades "I'll Always Be With You"

I never really liked the ones for Paradise Theater or Kilroy. I did think the video for Show Me The Way was good.

Cheesiest "rock" video of all time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8

styxfanNH wrote:After reviewing various Styx' videos last night. I think they are all awful. Add in Dennis' Boomchild and Shaw Blades "I'll Always Be With You"

The two best Styx/related videos are Desert Moon and Show Me The Way. Both have a lot of depth to them.

Styx videos I would have liked to have seen made.....(that could have been very cool with a cool story line)

Suite Madame Blue
Ballerina
Crystal Ball
Come Sail Away (not concert footage)
Grand Illusion
Renegade
Sing For The Day
Boat On The River
Snowblind
Rockin The Paradise (not concert footage)
Best of Times (not concert footage)
All In A Day's Work

Toph wrote:

styxfanNH wrote:After reviewing various Styx' videos last night. I think they are all awful. Add in Dennis' Boomchild and Shaw Blades "I'll Always Be With You"

The two best Styx/related videos are Desert Moon and Show Me The Way. Both have a lot of depth to them.

Styx videos I would have liked to have seen made.....(that could have been very cool with a cool story line)

Suite Madame Blue
Ballerina
Crystal Ball
Come Sail Away (not concert footage)
Grand Illusion
Renegade
Sing For The Day
Boat On The River
Snowblind
Rockin The Paradise (not concert footage)
Best of Times (not concert footage)
All In A Day's Work

Styx really missed the boat when it came to using Music Videos to help their position. it's not like they didn't have the money or the contacts to make more and better produced videos.

Boomchild wrote:
Styx really missed the boat when it came to using Music Videos to help their position. it's not like they didn't have the money or the contacts to make more and better produced videos.

Or it could have had something to do with the fact that they weren't exactly as stylish as Duran Duran, they were more like Luke Skywalker and Killer Bob fronted by Rene Belloq. - Not exactly music video-friendly!

Higgy wrote:

Boomchild wrote:
Styx really missed the boat when it came to using Music Videos to help their position. it's not like they didn't have the money or the contacts to make more and better produced videos.

Or it could have had something to do with the fact that they weren't exactly as stylish as Duran Duran, they were more like Luke Skywalker and Killer Bob fronted by Rene Belloq. - Not exactly music video-friendly!

I dunno. Luke was kinda cute and Rene (Paul Freeman) was bad, but kinda sexy.


Bugsy

Higgy wrote:

Boomchild wrote:
Styx really missed the boat when it came to using Music Videos to help their position. it's not like they didn't have the money or the contacts to make more and better produced videos.

Or it could have had something to do with the fact that they weren't exactly as stylish as Duran Duran, they were more like Luke Skywalker and Killer Bob fronted by Rene Belloq. - Not exactly music video-friendly!

There were plenty of non music video friendly artists that were worse back then. It's my opinion that you can also make a great music video that doesn't focus just on the band standing in front of the camera performing the song.