Great songs with awful videos...

[Mister Freeze]

I nominate 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry."

[GoodJudge]

IIRC the traditional answer here is some Billy Squier song but I don't really know or care about him so I'll nominate Red Light, Green Light by The Wildhearts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6IicMnQNo

[Love_Industry]

Judas Priest have a bunch of bad ones: Breaking the Law, Locked In, Heading Out to the Highway and Turbo Lover to name a few.

Their only good ones are where they just show the band on stage: JBG, Parental Guidance...

[Traxan]

Don't forget Hot Rockin', which left no doubt Halford was light in the loafers.

For me it's "The Audience is Listening" from Steve Vai. Just an appalling piece of shit for a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8O3zC4E1NI

[dmbrocker]

Journey's "Seperate Ways"

[Bono Nettencourt]

I nominate 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry."

Journey's "Seperate Ways"

These are both great... the hammy overacting and corny mugging is the kind of cheese that made early MTV great.

Ozzys "The Ultimate Sin" clip was pretty stupid... some sort of half-assed Dallas concept with him as JR Ewing.

[daveg]

Ozzys Bark at the Moon

[Love_Industry]

Ozzys Bark at the Moon

Yeah Ozzy is another one. BATM, So Tired, Miracle Man, Crazy Train, TUS... crap. Shot in the Dark was mostly live wasn't it even if it had a demon chick.

[JinglesTheChristmasMouse]

Krokus’ “Screaming In The Night”

[GreatWhiteSnake]

Krokus’ “Screaming In The Night”

I thought of this also but for me it's bad song, bad video...I never liked that tune, no I did not. Slow, plodding, boring and goes nowhere. Some good wailing by Storace I guess but that's it...

[TeslaFan]

Billy Squier “Rock Me Tonight” is number one.

[Love_Industry]

Billy Squier “Rock Me Tonight” is number one.

Is it a great song though?

[Bono Nettencourt]

Billy Squier “Rock Me Tonight” is number one.

Is it a great song though?

It's pretty good. Not as guitar-driven as his older stuff, but catchy. Got remembered for the weird video more than its own merits, so...

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9a7fb0d5-8 ... e92ee55538

[EuroJR]

The Eye Of The Tiger (overplayed though)

[Chip Z'Hoy]

I nominate 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry."

Going to have to throw Aimee Mann under the bus again and nominate "Time Stand Still" by Rush.

I don't know that it's awful so much as extremely silly, while the song is somewhat poignant. By Rush standards, anyway.

[Dyslexicheart]

Judas Priest have a bunch of bad ones: Breaking the Law, Locked In, Heading Out to the Highway and Turbo Lover to name a few.

Their only good ones are where they just show the band on stage: JBG, Parental Guidance...

What I was going to say...

[Maalsa]

Dorken - Breaking the Chains

[DiamondDog]

I nominate 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry."

Going to have to throw Aimee Mann under the bus again and nominate "Time Stand Still" by Rush.

I don't know that it's awful so much as extremely silly, while the song is somewhat poignant. By Rush standards, anyway.

This is my sentimental favourite Rush album, but yes, this is a silly video. I couldn't even remember the video, to be honest. I had to look it up.

[dweezil]

I nominate 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry."

Going to have to throw Aimee Mann under the bus again and nominate "Time Stand Still" by Rush.

I don't know that it's awful so much as extremely silly, while the song is somewhat poignant. By Rush standards, anyway.

This is my sentimental favourite Rush album, but yes, this is a silly video. I couldn't even remember the video, to be honest. I had to look it up.

It's really dumb green-screen bullshit. Probably shot in all of an hour in some public access TV studio when both Rush and Til Tuesday happened to be in the same town at the same time.

[MisterSinister]

The latest Megadeth record has great music, but absolutely shit videos.

[BDG135]

Queensryche - Queen of the Reich

[pieceofme]

Krokus’ “Screaming In The Night”

I thought of this also but for me it's bad song, bad video...I never liked that tune, no I did not. Slow, plodding, boring and goes nowhere. Some good wailing by Storace I guess but that's it...

Sums up Krokus full stop.

[Babydoll]

Krokus’ “Screaming In The Night”

Yep! Great song, but the video is so cheezy.

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Anything by Grim Reaper. One of the best metal bands ever, but the videos did them no favors.

[Love_Industry]

Anything by Grim Reaper. One of the best metal bands ever, but the videos did them no favors.

Did ANY British metal band in the 80s have non-crap videos that weren't straight up live performances? Reaper, Maiden, Priest, Gillan, Saxon... nope.

Sabbath gets a free pass for The Shining, but that's about it.

Edit: Whitesnake doesn't count, at least not Kalodnersnake.

[dmbrocker]

Anything by Grim Reaper. One of the best metal bands ever, but the videos did them no favors.

Grim Reaper's videos were definitely good for a laugh when Beavis and Butthead made fun of them.

[kanister]

Yankee Rose.

The over the top studio performance video isn`t really a good visualisation of the song. Wish they had some outdoors shots from NYC or something.
They could have had much wider appeal without the awkward outfits and Dave shoving his ass on the camera

They should have used actual live footage of that great stage for the second single.

[Love_Industry]

Yankee Rose.

The over the top studio performance video isn`t really a good visualisation of the song. Wish they had some outdoors shots from NYC or something.
They could have had much wider appeal without the awkward outfits and Dave shoving his ass on the camera

I thought the stage and performance were super cool when I was 15. A few years later I started wondering if Dave wasn't actually making fun of cock rock cliches in the video. If the grocery store intro was intentionally humorous, why not the live performance too?

[Bono Nettencourt]

Yankee Rose.

The over the top studio performance video isn`t really a good visualisation of the song. Wish they had some outdoors shots from NYC or something.
They could have had much wider appeal without the awkward outfits and Dave shoving his ass on the camera

I thought the stage and performance were super cool when I was 15. A few years later I started wondering if Dave wasn't actually making fun of cock rock cliches in the video. If the grocery store intro was intentionally humorous, why not the live performance too?

Yes it was Dave going 120% OTT IYF. Agree.

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Yankee Rose.

The over the top studio performance video isn`t really a good visualisation of the song. Wish they had some outdoors shots from NYC or something.
They could have had much wider appeal without the awkward outfits and Dave shoving his ass on the camera

I thought the stage and performance were super cool when I was 15. A few years later I started wondering if Dave wasn't actually making fun of cock rock cliches in the video. If the grocery store intro was intentionally humorous, why not the live performance too?

Roth is a walking, talking cock rock cliche, so I highly doubt that.