I’m one of the worlds biggest Rush fans and that song is one of my favourites. Still, you won the tread.
But Aimee Mann’s in it.
You’re right, though - classic song, bad video.
Never thought of Tool as “prog metal” before.
What the fuck.
I don’t know if that’s the worst video to a good song ever made, but it isn’t far out of first place. I think “Separate Ways” by Journey trumps it.
For being one of the first bands to use music videos… queen has some bad ones.
Miracle - Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrADb7CHDsc
A Kind of Magic - Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHnEzAK1Fs
I Want to Break Free - Queen
Bonus:
Clownly Clown Clown - Crispin Glover
Horribly awesome, I guess. It’s the mustache.
It’s the mustache and the black miniskirt.
A career disaster, almost as bad as Squire’s Rock Me Tonight.
This was supposedly a send up of a British Sitcom, which is why it doesn’t quite … translate to a US audience. ^_^
I suppose… here is another few from a famous brit… Ozzy Osbourne
So Tired - Ozzy Osbourne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P4uir-GSVg
Time after Time - Ozzy Osbourne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAA_m52I70
Couple More
Holy Smoke - Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHz8ms1TerU
(Though, I would file this under the it is so FREAKING AWESOME because it is bad)
Hot Rockin - Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3TpFZY7cU
Seriously… did people ever doubt that Halford was Gay? … Seriously…
According to Brian May in an interview about Queen’s Greatest Hits, the video ruined the band in America, which might explain why singles failed to go above #40 in the US Billboard charts after “Radio Ga Ga”
I think it was more due to the trends in music. Crappy hair metal and Whitney Houston crowded out a lot of good music in the late 80s, and then Paula Abdul squashed the rest. Though not all of Queen’s later stuff was as great as the pre-Ga Ga work to begin with. The singles, even the catchy ones, were lacking just enough of the pop and the energy of the earlier stuff to be noticeable. The Miracle sounds more like an album from 1981 than it does one from 1989. Innuendo is just weak all around, but that’s understandable.
But looking at the discography, Queen lagged in the U.S. charts for everything past Another One Bites the Dust anyway. Hot Space only hit #22 despite having one of the best songs ever, Under Pressure, on it. Which itself only hit #29. So I wouldn’t blame the video. Which is awesome.
ANJ - Gorbachov
DJ Bobo - “Chihuaha”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vL1-gWyHs
DJ Bobo - “Vampires Are Alive”
DJ Bobo - “Everybody”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jfd2NA4_io
DJ Bobo - “There is a Party”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxDAl1qI9c
DJ Bobo - “Respect Yourself”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lAFVwacesI
DJ Bobo - “The Pirates of Dance”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VawGmCZ-f88
DJ Bobo - “Freedom”
Yeah, pretty much every video DJ Bobo has ever made.
DJ Bobo is a king among men.
While no expert on the genres, I ask: You’re not comparing Tool to those… those… LARP’ers with guitars?
Here’s a few.
King Kurt
Baltimora
Tommy Seebach (a lovely Dane, now deseased)
James Last
I mean, yeah, Tool aren’t really power metal by any stretch of the imagination, but their videos are still fantastic as a whole :)
I think they fit the prog metal bill OK, hence the linkage… I certainly wasn’t comparing them to anyone.
Chicago legend Jan Terry’s “Baby Blues” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRpcwACAFsw
Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip’s “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper” (greatest song ever) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwilCs4Jqg
former manager for the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Gals” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgvJY9xxcA
“I Wanna Love You Tender” by I don’t know who the fuck - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnGPIMUnus