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Old 12-03-2011, 23:45
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So, I was singing a Prince song in my head today that I haven't heard in years and decided to have a listen on youtube.

Well HOLY GOD I was not prepared for the video I was about to see AT ALL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Rtx4vgDUo

I mean ... what in Christ's good name is this!!???

He's putting petrol in his car, then there's rotating babies of every race, and a chick with a plastic recorder dancing around with people with letters on their stomachs and a woman having her temparature taken and then he's the doctor all along and it really all happened in his eye and there's a humming bird?

WTF?
Most odd part at 2.32 to 2.35!

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Old 13-03-2011, 00:36
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Kings of Leon - Radioactive

Crap song and an even worse video. Just them pretending to be matey with a load of african children for 3 and a half minutes.
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Old 13-03-2011, 00:38
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So, I was singing a Prince song in my head today that I haven't heard in years and decided to have a listen on youtube.

Well HOLY GOD I was not prepared for the video I was about to see AT ALL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Rtx4vgDUo
As soon I saw the egregious title come up, I immediately clicked off.

Worst videos - so many examples from the 80s, of static 'singing bands' shown from various 'amazing for the time' (ie now completely ) ) computer-graphics-enhanced shots.
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Old 13-03-2011, 00:57
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Kings of Leon - Radioactive

Crap song and an even worse video. Just them pretending to be matey with a load of african children for 3 and a half minutes.
iTunes had to resort to giving it away for free at Christmas to flog it.
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Old 13-03-2011, 01:23
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Westlife- Uptown Girl, with the pompous accents at the beginning in the diner and then the entrance of Claudia Schiffer. Then there is Terence Trent Darby with Sign Your Name.
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Old 13-03-2011, 01:24
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That certainly isn't one of Prince's memorable videos at any rate! Apart from the odd few, I don't find a lot of current music videos all that memorable. However, there were some dire music videos in years gone by!

Funnily enough I was saying to one of my good friends how I thought the video for Ashford & Simpson's "Solid" was pretty awful the other day - it would be one of my contenders. Nick Ashford's haircut is quite funny though but watch out for the poor cyclist around 1:24! A good song but a bad video.

Cliff Richard's 'Wired For Sound' is another of my suggestions. Cliff on rollerskates and wearing leather - eeeeeeeeeeek!

Mai Tai - History

As much as I love the song, I can't say the same for the video to Laura Branigan's 'Self Control.'

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Supercar - Tonite

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles A nice song but a bit of a daft video to go with it.

Cassius - Feeling For You - however, it is memorable!
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Old 13-03-2011, 12:20
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Britney's Gimme More and Break The Ice
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Old 13-03-2011, 12:30
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Britney Spears - Gimme More.
This video represented all that was wrong with her life. A sad, drunken mess.

Madonna - Give It 2 Me.
That was just embarrassing. What the hell was she doing?

Lady GaGa - LoveGame.
The most unsexy sexy music video ever. She tried so hard to do something edgy and underground and sexy, and it failed miserably.:yawn:

Beyoncé - Diva.
Cringeworthy attempt at being ''Gangsta''.:sleep:

I'll be back. They're just the recent ones. BAH HA HA HA!
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Old 13-03-2011, 16:29
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Some brilliant songs have been ruined by awful videos:

The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes. A girl wandering about in an old manor house. Back in the early 80s there were a lot of attempts for pop videos to tell a story. This one's shit.

The Pixies - Velouria. Again, brilliant song but 4 minutes of the band clambering over some rocks in extreme slow motion. Zzzzzzzzzz

Sonic Youth - Tunic. Gorgeous song about Karen Carpenter. Video full of random stuff made on a budget of about 5p. What were they thinking?
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Old 13-03-2011, 17:01
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This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t33yyycIDA

is a horrendous music video. Cheap and nasty make up, chipped nails, overly (and horribly) slutty dancing and diabolical camera work.

It looks like it was shot in some crummy motel somewhere, and the singer looks like the type who has visited all the rooms there....

Just awful.
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Old 13-03-2011, 17:05
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This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t33yyycIDA

is a horrendous music video. Cheap and nasty make up, chipped nails, overly (and horribly) slutty dancing and diabolical camera work. It looks like it was shot in some crummy motel somewhere, and the singer looks like the type who has visited all the rooms there....

Just awful.
I actually thought that was a Ke$ha parody!

This is the Charlie Sheen of this thread.
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Old 13-03-2011, 17:49
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Britney's Gimme More and Break The Ice
Break The Ice is one of my all-time favourites! Amazing.

This is hilariously bad. Definitely in the so bad its good territory. It seriously is impossible to keep a straight face when you watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
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Old 13-03-2011, 17:51
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Break The Ice is one of my all-time favourites! Amazing.

This is hilariously bad. Definitely in the so bad its good territory. It seriously is impossible to keep a straight face when you watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
I'm actually crying...
That's so funny.
My sides fricking HURT!
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Old 13-03-2011, 18:23
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For some reason DS isn't letting me quote any posts, but to the person who put a link to the david hasselhoff video - hilariously bad! I still have tears of laughter 15 minutes later.

Awful!
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Old 13-03-2011, 18:27
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Happened to be unfortunate enough to catch Spandau Ballet's 'True' (eeeurrgh) the other day. Utter dreck. Tony Hadley looks about 45 rather than 23, God only knows why kohl was cool back then.
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Old 13-03-2011, 19:00
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Madonna - Celebration, namely the way she gyrates around in a skimpy outfit and high heeled lace up boots with a guy 30 years younger than her like she's still in her 20s (creepy!)
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty and Not Myself Tonight, I like the songs but I feel its like she's trying too hard to be edgy in both those videos.
Beyonce - Check On It and Green Light
Britney - Gimme More, enough said. Its a shame because if Britney was at her best when the song was out, the video could've been so much better
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Old 13-03-2011, 19:03
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Madonna - Celebration, namely the way she gyrates around in a skimpy outfit and high heeled lace up boots with a guy 30 years younger than her like she's still in her 20s (creepy!)
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty and Not Myself Tonight, I like the songs but I feel its like she's trying too hard to be edgy in both those videos. No wonder Bionic flopped.
I liked that one.


N-Dubz new cartoon one is bad.
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Old 13-03-2011, 19:07
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Break The Ice is one of my all-time favourites! Amazing.

This is hilariously bad. Definitely in the so bad its good territory. It seriously is impossible to keep a straight face when you watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
Oh my God LOL!
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Old 13-03-2011, 20:25
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Rebecca Black - Friday

nuff said.
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Old 13-03-2011, 20:44
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Gossip - Standing in the way of control.

Seriously watch it, it looks like the whole thing cost about £10 to make. So horribly cheap.
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Old 13-03-2011, 20:47
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Rebecca Black - Friday

nuff said.
What are you talking about? It's freaking AMAZING!
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Old 13-03-2011, 20:51
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This is hilariously bad. Definitely in the so bad its good territory. It seriously is impossible to keep a straight face when you watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
Oh my Christ!!!
What's that about at 3.18??

But I think it's intentionally bad... and matches the awfulness of the song... but still
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Old 13-03-2011, 21:38
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Atomic kitten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0dWuT539Zw&feature=fvst

Narcissism in the first degree. Their lips dont even sync
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Old 13-03-2011, 22:33
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Don't Stand So Close To Me '86

What the fook they were aiming for is anyone's guess!
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Old 14-03-2011, 02:55
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The "best" video and song ever made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9n5Uv0bp0

A sheer masterpiece. A piece of musical and visual genius!
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