The most ridicolous moments in a pop video
 

One of the best i've ever seen(but i cant remember the name of the song just as well) has to be Michael Bolton on the top of a skyscraper while a helicopter is flying all around him and he literally grabs his felt emotions from the air.Priceless!!

that madonna video where she sings.

i love all the 80s rock videos with the theme of the parents who won't let them rock. the best is that nelson video where the kid's dad yells at him, he goes into his room to sulk and the indian on the poster on his wall comes to life, hands him a feather and guides him to his own personal nelson concert. at the end he thinks it was just a dream, but alas, the feather is in his room!! there's also the theme of the kids becoming possessed by the rock (glowing eyes and all), like ozzy's shot in the dark or kiss' i love it loud.

on the cheesy pop video tip, there's the paula abdul video where keanu reaves makes a cameo where they're at that 50s car race ala grease and she asks him "have you ever been in love?" and he says "if i was i didn't know it" and they have this really stupid conversation that i believe ends with one of them saying something like "it just reminds us that we're all alone." she had really bad videos - like the one where she dances with the cartoon cat.

Madonna's okay, I reckon. So there.

Most ridiculous moment in a pop video is easy peasy! About five yeras ago there was a song by Westlife, called (I think) 'A WOrld of Our Own'. As it happens the theme of them being in a world of their own was rather appropriate.

At the start of the vid they get out of a car in an underground car park or something and start trying to look tough! I kid you not, watching this bunch of ******** **** **** ******'s trying to look all hard and street is the most hilarious musical moment I've ever witnessed (and that includes that guy from Carter USM rugby-tackling Phillip Schofield at that awards thing).

Celine dion is one of the greatest for naff pop videos.I love the fact that she goes for the crescendo thing(go to some gay bars and you'll see what i mean).She will be swept away by the wind,rained upon etc.Metereological conditions work fantastically well in her videos.They allow her to emotionally blackmail her audience into buyng her shitty records.

Eddie Van Halen rocking a shred solo while parading down the world's longest school cafeteria table!

I really like madonna, she puts a lot into her music I find!

haha, yes! that reminds me of the "25 lame" special mtv did, which had comedians like jon stewart and janeane garofalo making fun of videos such as that one and these:

journey - seperate ways (lol @ the air instruments)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04po6GOdHkc

eddie murphy & michael jackson - whatzupwitu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3L76sopv8

wham! - wake me up before you go go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7Aiic3AgM

don johnson - "heartbeat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xthRY2-90tM

so baaaaaad.

but i'm pretty partial to falco's "der kommissar"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQ5gpxrIaY

i like modonna too!! uhh i can't think of any right now but it will come to me! i know it cause there are too many bad ones that i have seen!

easy:

when billy squier rips his t-shirt on that video...i can't remember the name of the song, i think it's rock me tonight, the one where he is dancing like he is in flashdance

that paula abdul video with keanu reeves was an homage/rip-off of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, not grease!

that's one of the greatest and unintentionally funniest videos ever made!!!!!

And what is it with all those videos that have musicians climb on top off a mountain to play their guitars?Wind,Cliffs and guitar gods.Hehehe

speaking of paula abdul videos.

how about the one with the cartoon cats!!! bleh!!! one of the worst videos ever.

paula abdul is one of the worst excuses for music ever.

see, now that video rules. especially if you were like an 11-year old girl at the time who was in love with the little david lee roth kid or the little eddie van halen kid (whichever one of them mouthed slowly "but then my homework was never quite like this")

and to add another, since i'm a chronic classic vh1 watcher and previous youthful mtv addict, one of my FAVORITE moments in video history is george harrison's mid video backflip dance during the "got my mind set on you" video. he strums his guitar in a chair for the whole video, backflips off of it into this little choreographed little number with kicks and arm-swinging, then resumes his previous chair position for the last chorus. BRILLIANT!

not very poppy, but Ozzy Osbourne's "shot in the dark" that video when the preppy girl is reluctant at first but goes to the ozzy concert with her friends, but hold on, she dont feel right, she feels a little toothy and hairy.... eventually ends up as a vampire... its like shes changing all nite and then suddenly....BANG!!!!!! SHES A FUCKIN VAMPIRE....
pure honest ta god goodness

i can't explain to you how much i love "i got my mind set on you"

both the song and video

EDIT::i just read fishmonkey's post and yeah, ozzy has the worst videos ever. i think he is the first big artist on a major label to get little or no budget for videos, i mean, how about the video for bark at the moon? crazy train? mama i'm coming home?

Axl swimming with the dolphins in Estranged
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ANGdGgz6VnA&search=estranged

I love Slash's guitar on there though

yeah that's got to be up there as far as the most over-the-top, krastian

i'm replying though mainly because i'd like to proffer my theory about why he hasn't made any music in so long. If you've seen any photos of him the last few years, his already thinning hair has gotten very stringy & he's gone to dreadlocks & now extensions. The weave can't be too far away for Axl. But that's not the main reason. Look at the photos of him closely & you can see that he's had a lot of plastic surgery done...plastic surgery that went bad...real bad. Either that or Botox abuse have contributed to his mannequinn-esque appearance. This is the reason why I think his album hasn't come out in all these years like keeps getting reported.

I did like Conan O'Brien's suggestion that he change the name of the band to "Chubby McGoo and the Guys Who Aren't Slash."
Amazing.

And when he jumps off that freighter....ha ha. Thanks Axl.

Ha ha. Yeah that was good.

good one!!!

atari is right, also, he might have had some michael jackson-like skin pigment treatment or something because he is now as orange as his hair used to be on the welcome to the jungle video.

out of the epic brutallities that are the power ballads from use your illusions videos, the worst has to be don't cry.

Hmm, Micheal Jackson smashing a car and turning into a black panther (not the radical 60's group) comes to mind.-Black and White video

That's a good one too, LifeDistortion. Can't beat the In Living Color spoof either.

I can't believe that November Rain hasn't been mentioned. Slash is playing a solo in some huge room but when he walks out the place is like twice as small. I never understood why that one guy dives into the wedding cake either.

Excellent pick. I vote for every band that's performed on top of a mountain (I'm looking your way Creed & Metallica, you damn pretentious fucks).

Did you notice during his first solo (in the desert outside of the church) his guitar isn't plugged into anything? That always bothered me.

Sorry for the triple post but I just watched "Estranged".
Oh snap, Slash did it again (unplugged) and walked on water. Well...in his day I guess that's okay because he was highly regarded at the time, but Axl in the Charlie Manson shirt? Seriously, anyone who thinks Manson contributed one positive thing to society is an uninformed twat.

Yeah, I like G N' R for the most part, but Axl sucks.

slash is so cool, he can play an unplugged guitar and still wail!!

Slash is amazing.

Axl's about to tour with the new G'n'R. If I'm not mistaken, he retained rights to the band name, so Chinese Democracy is coming out either soon or out now, and the band is touring. He's excited to play his "new stuff," which explains why i won't go, even for nostalgia's sake. they're doing four nights at hammerstein ballroom mid-may.

axl swiming with the dolphins, thats it, thats the worst, defo

Even though the song is crap i really like the video for The Libertines' 'What became of the likely lads'.