YouTube Links: Favorite Worst Videos
These YouTube.com picks can be filed under ‘favorite worst videos’:
| “[Afrika Bambaataa—Looking for the Perfect Beat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POviI6ty98s&eurl=http://kintespace.com/swf_video/iframe.php?doc=http://www.youtube.com/v/9h6pcqC6wrI&bgColor=c7c7c7)” | The innovation of [Run-D.M.C.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_DMC) was showing up on stage in their street clothes. Before this simplicity, there was some serious [Sun-Ra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra)-style costumery in the world of beats.
You can learn more about Run-D.M.C.—especially its huge effect on the big business of youth culture—in Thibaut de Longeville’s and Lisa Leone’s documentary Just for Kicks. |
| “[The Floaters](http://youtube.com/watch?v=l22tflaxLK0)” | For those of you who remember the brilliance of Eddie Murphy’s Sexual Chocolate: I am sure he borrowed heavily from the serious comedy of [the Floaters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Floaters). |
| “[Barry White: Just the way you are…”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWNYxNJV6w&NR=1) | I am sure that Barry White turned down the dudes from [*South Park*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park) before [Isaac Hayes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes) took the bait. This video should explain why all the fuss. |
| “[Barry White Love’s Theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Hw6yAaeBw&feature=related)” | Keep in mind that Barry White is in my music personal collection as a classic. But what we hear is different from what we *see*. |
| “[The Jacksons Variety Show 1977 ‘Dancing Machine’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A3jEgn3f8&NR=1)” | Like I said: what we hear is different from what we see… |
| “[Scorpions—Rock You Like A Hurricane](http://youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE)” | I am often very glad that the 1980s are over… the future is better… one day closer… |