"Loverboy made horrible videos," confesses singer Mike Reno."

Probably the first and only time I'll agree with anything someone from the band Loverboy said. Unless, of course, someone in the band says that they made horrible music, too. I'd doubly agree with that.

This song makes me want to punch them all in the snout. (^)

FTA: Heart, "Never" (1985)
...Nancy: "There I am, with my rack. I got relegated to the bombshell department in videos. It's a blessing and a curse, at the same time."

Funny, that is exactly what made me like that video back in the day, and upon reviewing it now, my feelings are unchanged.

List fails without Eddie Murphy and Don Johnson. (new windows)

Speaking of Loverboy and WTF videos. (new window)

/sorry for commercial lead-in. youtube had no watchable quality versions

Mtv (new window)(new window) did this a decade ago and it was hilarious.

When you really think about it, how many videos weren't embarrassing? The first few years were ok, but eventually you run out of concepts, and most musicians didn't become actors for a reason. Sure, there are an almost unlimited number of ways to get scantily clad women involved. But internet porn pretty much made that obsolete.

Am I the only one who thinks the video for Separate Ways is great cheesy fun?

Ennuipoet: FTA: Heart, "Never" (1985)
...Nancy: "There I am, with my rack. I got relegated to the bombshell department in videos. It's a blessing and a curse, at the same time."

Funny, that is exactly what made me like that video back in the day, and upon reviewing it now, my feelings are unchanged.

Wow, that is really godawful hair and an awesome rack.

GAT_00: Ennuipoet: FTA: Heart, "Never" (1985)
...Nancy: "There I am, with my rack. I got relegated to the bombshell department in videos. It's a blessing and a curse, at the same time."

Funny, that is exactly what made me like that video back in the day, and upon reviewing it now, my feelings are unchanged.

Wow, that is really godawful hair and an awesome rack.

she has better hair now, and her rack is still awesome.

Does not approve.

SilentStrider: she has better hair now, and her rack is still awesome.

Back in the day, I had the hots for Ann...not so much anymore.

"Loverboy made horrible videos," confesses singer Mike Reno.

Your music sucked ass too, Mike.

SilentStrider: Am I the only one who thinks the video for Separate Ways is great cheesy fun?



Mount Rushmore!

I never thought the Scandal video was shiatty, afraid to watch it now.

/where the hell was Flock of Seagulls for this list
//Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer was physically painful to watch also
///equally painful to listen to
////slashies

Dear Jerk: MTV had a contest. The winner would get a part in a Loverboy video. Naturally, the winner was unattractive. In the video, Loverboy was doing their thing then, in an edit that made no sense, they cut to a .3 second long-shot of a girl behind a sound board. Then right back to the regular Loverboy hijinx. It was one of the great edits in film history, imho.

Ah, "Queen of the Broken Hearts". Still remember the cramp in my hand I got from writing out all those entry postcards. And the edit does make sense--supposedly the band is under surveillance and the contest winner was running the cameras, which you see a few seconds before the edit.

Speaking as a Loverboy fan the "Hot Girls In Love" video was farking Citizen Kane compared to "Gangs In The Street." Mercifully for all of you it's not up on YouTube but trust me, even when I was sixteen and adored them I thought it was one of the most hilariously awful things I'd ever seen. Mike Reno is right--Loverboy's videos are all various degrees of horrible.

henryhill: The author has obviously missed the entire point of why videos were made in the 80s. To point out these videos is comparable to throwing at dartboard and seeing what you hit. These vids arent any worse than anything being made today. And they were done at a fraction of the cost. Back then they were made as an accompaniment to the song, now they are made as a crucial part of the song. The author and the article fail in epic proportions.

They still make music videos?

JasonOfOrillia: No love for Bowie and Jagger? (new window)

I think they had enough love for each other.

Mugato: JasonOfOrillia: No love for Bowie and Jagger? (new window)

I think they had enough love for each other.

Apart from the lipsynching thing, I always thought Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain" was good 'n terrible. Those f*cking outfits--neoprene tops with gigantic shoulder pads, and the little boy pants as they hippityhopped and twirled their weaves--ghastly.

loki see loki do: So which of Billy Squire's failvideos does subby think was the coffin nail?

Not subby, but even Squier agrees that Rock Me Tonight (with the horrible dancing and tearing-off-chest pink shirt move) was the nail in his career coffin.

I wasn't embarrassed to enjoy these in the 80's at all. Then again I didnt' have a facebook page with 500 pictures of myself from last month to compare them to.