Music Videos so terrible that they are awesome!!!!

**GuitarGeek** · 09-20-2014

Originally Posted by trurl

Yeah, I think in people's minds and memories Cars is a drum machine and of course the drums are the most human thing about the track. Great great feel, lots of subtle kick drum stuff.

The drums, the tambourine, and the bass guitar. Yes, that's right, most people don't realize it but at least during the instrumental after each verse, there's a bass guitar in the mix there.

**klothos** · 09-20-2014

Originally Posted by GuitarGeek

The drums, the tambourine, and the bass guitar. Yes, that's right, most people don't realize it but at least during the instrumental after each verse, there's a bass guitar in the mix there.

Yup -- Bass Guitar layered on a Bass Synth.

**Progbear** · 09-20-2014

Originally Posted by GuitarGeek

I don't know what Druid is, but the drumming on that track I always thought was fantastic.

Yes clone from the trailing edge of the prog boom. Their keysman was later responsible for the Teletubbies music!

**trurl** · 09-21-2014

I want to start a thread called "Videos that are so awesome that they are terrible" but I don't know what to put in it. Maybe Division Bell era Floyd or something.

**klothos** · 09-21-2014

Originally Posted by trurl

I want to start a thread called "Videos that are so awesome that they are terrible" but I don't know what to put in it. Maybe Division Bell era Floyd or something.

I think the related "Great Song but Horrible Video" thread would certainly be do-able...... I'd start that one off with Donnie Iris' "Ah Leah"............

**Rarebird** · 09-21-2014

Originally Posted by GuitarGeek

I don't know what Druid is, but the drumming on that track I always thought was fantastic. Nothing flashy, but all those fills just sound so perfect, I can't imagine anything else sounding as good on that track.

The thing that really gets me about Cars is the song is nearly 4 minutes long, and there's singing for only about 90 seconds, and then the rest of the track, including most of the last two minutes is instrumental. And I think it's last 90 seconds of the song (which doesn't sound like a long time, in pop music terms, it's forever) is just that riff looping over again and again. Very hypnotic.

Druid was a British progressive rock group, that made 2 albums. They could be considered as a kind of Yes-clone, though I don't like that word.

**Rune Blackwings** · 09-21-2014

Originally Posted by trurl

Totally. And Elton's I'm Still Standing video. I'm not going to post it.

so here's a still with Elton and Bruno Tonioli...

**Rune Blackwings** · 09-21-2014

Originally Posted by JKL2000

This kind of thing should not be allowed. Their energy disgusts me.

And I just realized I think this was in the town I live in. Heads will roll...

if you look carefully, I think it's in the bottom far left, there's a guy with some serious eyebrow action happening...

**Rune Blackwings** · 09-21-2014

**Progbear** · 09-22-2014

Oh, that Sarah Brightman video!

**luvyesmusic** · 09-22-2014

Should have won an award or two. ;-)

**luvyesmusic** · 09-22-2014

**GuitarGeek** · 09-22-2014

Originally Posted by luvyesmusic

I read one time that video was shot on a military base. Apparently, the video director's father was a diplomat or something like that, so he was able to pull strings to allow him to shoot on the base. All those explosions during the instrumental bit at the end, before the final verse, weren't part of the planned shoot, but rather the German army firing mortar onto the artillery range (which was behind the band), "for laughs" or whatever. If you watch that bit very quickly you can see the band sort of fleeing the area. From what I gather, they weren't acting, they were seriously scared off by the weapons fire.

BTW, those first two Nena albums were pretty damn good records. Lots of good melodic hooks on those records. I play stuff off of them regularly on Journey Of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.