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04 Dec 2006 04:37 pm

Worst '80s Video Nominee

A reader complains we haven't had enough big hair metal bands. 'Tis true. So here's Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me". My reader explains why it is culturally significant:

This one has it all: Hair and lots of it. (The better for head banging.) Skinny legs. (Sir Mick may have started that one but these guys carry on the tradition proudly.) Torn jeans. Tank tops and/or no tops. A one-armed drummer. Ridiculous lyrics. Silly-shaped guitars. Zero cost to produce as it's simply concert footage spliced together (badly I might add since many times the lead singer's lips don't match the song).

In other words: sublime.

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