6 of The Worst Rock Band Videos Ever Shown on MTV

MTV didn't get to my neighborhood for a while. Inspired by MTV telling everyone to call their local cable company and say, "I want my MTV," like magic, it worked! Weekends, for a small time, were spent in a game room basement watching for hours. I had great admiration for the VJs that would become household names. The VJs that would give us the best and the worst rock band videos.

MTV's five original VJs in 1981 were Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J. J. Jackson, and Martha Quinn. MTV even had its hard-hitting news crew headed by Kurt Loader who had previously been a Rolling Stones Magazine editor.

From 1981 - 1995 MTV's focus was on music videos. If you had a band and a good video, you could be an overnight success. Bon Jovi, U2, Nirvana, the Police, Pat Benatar, ZZ Top, Whitesnake,  and Cyndi Lauper all owe MTV a big thank you for a boost in their popularity.

Not all MTV videos were good. Face it, there was some pure garbage videos that made it to the airwaves.

If you ever wondered why MTV stopped showing videos 24 hours a day. This might be a big clue why.

Loss for words? Believe me you are not the only one for this video. Still can't even imagine the drugs going around in the 80's. A new wave band from Memphis, Tennessee that briefly gained success for the music video.

Example of great song really bad video. Steve Perry summed it up by saying, 'We're performers, we're entertainers, but we're not actors."

PowerSolo is a Danish rock & country rock band, founded in 1996, and was one strange video that popped up on MTV.

Everything just seem to get worse in the 90s when it came to music videos. Just seem like the money dried up or they just didn't care anymore. The band has a lot of other cool videos. Just don't know what they were thinking on this one.