Reasons that Go West's "We Close Our Eyes" is perhaps the worst video of all time:1) The storyboard, or lack thereof.
2) The resulting stage directions to the duo: "Mug with this giant wrench." "Knock yourself and your mullet out with this hair dryer."
3) The duo's willingness to do so.
4) Their forced fun, which by comparison makes Wang Chung look outright mirthy on the despicable "Everybody Have Fun Tonight."
5) The inexplicable presence of a faux Pope amidst all that forced fun.
6) The insistence of the lead singer (the unfortunately named Peter Cox, who, I must admit, looked not unlike handsome former MLB pitcher and current announcer Al Leiter) on wearing worn, overtight tanks - even when wearing his leather jacket, which produces the chicken-and-egg question, Does his jacket smell like his armpits, or do his pits smell like his jacket?
And that's not even getting into the awfulness of the song, whose lyrics defy description and whose instrumentation defies taste. How this made it as high as #41 in '85 I'll never understand, but at least it missed the 40.
To think that Godley & Creme directed this. Will blunders never cease.
3 comments:
I'm afraid we're going to have part ways on this one. Yes, the video was uninspired and workmanlike (I'd actually never seen it before). But the song brings back many happy memories of camping out on the boat at the Lake, boombox turned down to almost nothing so we didn't wake up the entire cove, or of bouncing around the living room in Burke when no one else was home, lip syncing. Yes, Go West was the poor man's Wham!, but I loved them for it.
-D*
Me too -- the song is an '80s fave of mine, as were all their singles. I was stunned that it didn't get a lot *higher* than #41.
We are tigers in the dark (the dark, the dark, the dark). WE ARE BURNING!
How is that not genius? And I double Dave's sentiment.
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