If you're someone who grew up watching MTV back in the days when actual music videos were played on the network most of the time, then you know that some of the best videos of all time were actually some of the worst. David Bowie and Mick Jagger's hilariously manic moves in "Dancing in the Streets," for example (which is even funnier to watch with the sound off), or, for that matter, the Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" video, which features the entire band playing under a striped tent while getting slowly swallowed by bubbles.
In truth, it can be more fun to watch a "bad" music video than a "good" one (after all, Beavis and Butthead made a whole show about it). So it's important to note that some of the clips on Ultimate Classic Rock's "20 of rock's worst music videos" list are actually kind of great, in a sense.
While the 20 videos to earn this dubious distinction weren't ranked in any type of order, the picks included plenty of videos that seem even sillier now than they did at the time, which is saying a lot. In addition to the aforementioned "Dancing in the Streets," the roundup included Starship's "faux-futuristic" "We Built This City" (evidence of an era before people really knew how to use green screens), and Styx's chaotic "Music Time," probably one of the only videos to combine aliens, giant hamburgers, heads on platters, dog suits and so much more.
Interestingly enough, some of the worst videos were in support of #1 hits. Case in point: The video for Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)," the first single off their 1983 album Frontiers.
The unintentionally hilarious clip opens with the band standing on a wharf, dressed in various shades of denim, playing air versions of their instruments...and it only gets weirder from there. A woman in white heels and a black leather skirt stalks around as the band members lip sync aggressively into the camera, striking various poses against the oddly industrial background.
Why are they on a wharf? Who is the woman? Why do their instruments keep disappearing and reappearing? The video ends with a shot of the woman sleeping in bed with headphones on, so we can assume it was all a dream (a nightmare?).
Even the band was skeptical about the video; as guitarist Neal Schon told Huffington Post in 2012, "I like the song, I don't know about the video. Well, it was the beginning of the video era. I think we made that video for, like, $5,000. You know, nobody was spending big money on videos, for one."
"I will never live down those air keyboards," lamented keyboardist Jonathan Cain in I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. "No matter what else I've done in my career, sooner or later people find a way to ask me about the 'Separate Ways' video.""It was just cheeseball, from beginning to end," Cain added.
Cheeseball...or iconic? Maybe both.
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