Worst Music Videos of the 1980's

[Woops]

Though an OK  song (not bad or good), "Physical" from Olivia Newton John tops as one of the worst videos of the 1980's, IMHO

[Jordi]

Though an OK  song (not bad or good), "Physical" from Olivia Newton John tops as one of the worst videos of the 1980's, IMHO

If I'm not wrong, "Physical" was one of the best videos on TV, really I don't know why! 
Olivia is my #2 but I think this video was horrible! 
About Love Is A Badfield, of Pat Benatar, I think is a intersting video.  Pat is one of my favorite singers too.
Jordi.

[Out of the Blue]

I voted "other."  That Flock of Seagulls video "I Ran" was really, really, bad.

[PaSquall]

Bowie and Jagger looked really stupid in the Dancing in the streets' video (though the song isn't too bad).

[Dariusz]

Only three choices, that's just too damn tough with this list.

[Woops]

MTV 25 Lame
ranked by MTV viewers (1999)



25. Spin Doctors "Two Princes"
Average video and an OK song.

24. Hammer "2 Legit 2 Quit"

23. Wilson Phillips "Hold On"

22. Chumbawamba "Tubthumping"

21. Billy Squier "Rock Me Tonight"

20. 4 Non Blondes "What's Up"

19. Motley Crue "Without You"

Not their best, though the video's somewhat average. Different for hair metal and more akin to Tears For Fears' "Sowing The Seeds Of Love".

18. Snow "Informer"

17. Paula Abdul "Rush Rush"


Actually an OK song and a decent video that's a homage to the 1950's movie "Rebel Without A Cause" and features Keanu Reeves of "Bill & Ted's Excellant Adventures" and later movies like "The Matrix".


16. Warrant "Heaven"

Good song, average hair band video with band performing, backstage, etc.

15. Crash Test Dummies "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

14. Aqua "Barbie Girl"

13. Journey "Separate Ways"

12. Winger "Seventeen"

A bad '80's hairband video with a very politically incorrect song. Winger is probably best known to be written on the shirt of Stewart from "Beavis & Butt-Head".


11. Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"


Ahhh! one of the worst videos from the 1980's. It's an OK song, but the video contains too much Day Glo! They had better hits like "Careless Whisper" & "Last Christmas". George Michael later had a successful solo career.


10. Debbie Gibson "Electric Youth"

Though not the best (or worst) song of Deb's, the video's quite average for 1989. Atleast they didn't put "Foolish Beat" or "Lost In Your Eyes". Yeah,  I've heard far worse like Baha Men "Who Let The Dogs Out". For bad '80's songs, anything from Air Supply.


9. Vanilla Ice "Ice, Ice, Baby"

Just plain awful. He makes K Fed sound like The Beastie Boys. As for the video, it's boring and looks very amaturish.

8. Milli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True"

'Nuff said

7. Gerardo "Rico Suave"

...good with sound off since there's cute female dancers wearing spandex 

6. Hall & Oates "Maneater"
Good song, average video


5. Los Del Rio "Macarena"

4. Nelson "After The Rain"

3. Eddie Murphy featuring Michael Jackson "Whazupwitu"

2. Chunky A "Owww!"

1. Don Johnson "Heartbeat"
Cheesy enough, though Vanilla Ice deserves the #1 spot, IMHO. He's best known as Sonny Crockett on the '80's drama "Miami Vice".

[PaSquall]

MTV 25 Lame
ranked by MTV viewers (1999)


11. Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"

Ahhh! one of the worst videos from the 1980's. It's an OK song, but the video contains too much Day Glo! They had better hits like "Careless Whisper" & "Last Christmas". George Michael later had a successful solo career.

Hey, this video was some sort of coming out for George Michael, but nobody understood it at the time... When you watch it now, it's clear that George is very happy in it, but Andrew Ridgely is more... uncomfortable (for lack of a better term)    Very difficult for a straight guy to wear these shorts, I suppose 

[Woops]

Kip Addotta "Wet Dream"

The song is filled with corny puns and the video's cheesy

[Woops]

Milli Vanilli "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is funny..for the wrong reasons 

The woman watching tv looked board and have to watch a horrible music video and some vintage film clips of people calling. For some reason, there's a clip of a politically incorrect cartoon included.