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Quick note: got the band bio page up. Not much on it yet, so if you have some facts you think I need to add e-mail us.

I wanna take a moment to reminisce on one of the worst memories of my teen years. It's something that many young ones in the nineties, and I think it's a chapter of history that's often glossed over and forgotten, like all the extra guys from Kiss in the 80's.

Of course I'm talking about the video for Sheryl Crow's "A Change Would Do You Good".

Now if you really are up-to-date on your Sheryl Crow video history, first of all throw yourself down the nearest flight of stairs. After you're done, maybe you'll ask me, "Hey guy on internet, who cares about another mediocre song and video?" I'd say DURPA DURP, and then tell you that this video made my eyes bleed for several reasons.

1. Cameos - "WOW U HAVE ANDY DICK, MOLLY SHANNON, ELLEN DEGENERES AND CHLOE FROM 24 BEFORE SHE WAS CHLOE!!111" I guess Bronson Pinchot wasn't available or was still pushing a Perfect Strangers reunion. It's basically a musical version of Rat Race, taking a failure pile of people that can't carry a movie and desperately praise the heavenly body that is Sheryl Crow for 3 minutes, all the while not trying to catch *RADIO EDIT* like Lance Armstrong (I know I have my timelines of Crow-history misaligned, but it's my rant.)

2. Talking - Oh God the talking. Couldn't we just use physical comedy or subtitles or have a train run them all over like those old Banned From TV VHS tapes you could buy on late-night TV? Everyone in this video talks during the song, covering at least a third of it with quotes like "Er, uh, I'm in a cab going to a hotel" and "Ovaltine don't buy itself, does Seal need someone in his video?" With this much "talent" you think someone would have said, "Wait, this isn't a movie? Why the dumdiddly hi-o do you want me to talk again?" Why have a video, outside of the obvious reason to cover up the brain-drain single.

There's 2 schools of video talking. You can have 18 minute cut scenes that make you forget you are watching a video for a brain-dead song (see also: every Puff Diddy Daddy song). Or you can go that talk over the whole thing like your song is fudgetastic background music for a misdirected hot mess. Not really sure either one is a good idea.

3. THE CONSPIRACY TO HIDE THE TRUTH. Cover-up? Yes my friends there's a cover-up. When I went to YouTube to look for this poop-on-a-stick, I get this link. The video is conveniently "unavailable". NOW THEN, I can easily find the artsy-fartsy black-and-white completely forgetable version here. Uncensored. High quality. There's a ton of versions of it out there too. Ooh yeah, there's the serious artist that's cool as balls on chin.

What the french toast?

Here's an interesting piece of info. Sheryl Crow helped direct the colored, chatterbox, version that's been seemingly wiped off the internet. Is she embarassed to face the truth? I think so... you dirty laundry, don't pretend you didn't help ruin the music video form.

As a matter of fact, I FOUND the video after some digging. Watch it now (if you dare), and see the horror. It's low quality, and almost looks like it was recorded with a video camera pointed at a TV. Catch it before the Crow Gestapo (or Gestacrow, lolz) gets their hands on this. They wanna act like she didn't do this. It happened. Never Forget.