If you thought last week was bad, I am really going to put you through the paces with this week's installment. Travel with me now back to the dark days of summer 1990 when this legendary piece of shit record spread on the radio and the ol' MTV like some supervirus. Damn Yankees was an unholy alliance of rock suckitude - bringing together members of such awful groups as Styx, Night Ranger and, oh dear....Ted Nugent. If the term "supergroup" wasn't already dead by this point, the musical abortion that was Damn Yankees certainly hammered the final nail in the coffin.
"High Enough" was their big hit - a power ballad so mawkish and insipid that only the video could provide anything in the way of entertainment. While the hair poseurs from Night Ranger and Styx take center stage, the star of this clip is undoubtedly the Nuge. Ted Nugent may be a supremely repellent human being, but he is uproarious in this video....you need only check out his swagger at 2:14 - 2:19, or his "wicked" solo at 3:14 in the midst of a police shootout. Hours of entertainment this provided, back in the day, I tell ya.
"Don't worry about it, ma'am.....jus them Damn Yankees!"
3 comments:
Patton Oswalt does a bit on this band and specifically that video. His thoughts were, we could have ended the whole Beavis and Butthead generation if only they had all tried to follow the Nuge's lead and attempted to repel bullets with the power of rock.
i really like this song. and i'm refusing to watch the video.
Greg - Spot- on commentary from Mr. Oswalt. I love his take on the KFC Bowls as "failure piles in a sadness bowl"
Gaby - you much watch the video if only for the "twist" at the end. No, Tommy Shaw doesn't take his pants off and show his vajayjay.
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