David Lee Roth -- "Yankee Rose" (1986)



* If you've ever wondered what David Lee Roth's wiggling butt looks like up close, here's your golden opportunity.

* Just to remind everybody who this guy is, the video is shot like very much like Van Halen's low-budget "Jump," except Roth is about as restrained as Kim Kardashian in a cocktail dress. It's all on the checklist: guitarist Steve Vai shoves his axe in the camera, lots of clowning around and hamming it up, ample amounts of spandex and smoke, and not the most subtle phallic props.

* Whatever money was spent on this video is in the 1:39 opening, set at an all-night grocery run by a horny Indian, and patronized by a freak show of stereotypes, including Roth dressed up as a colorful headhunter, asking, "Gimme a bottle of anything... and a glazed donut... to GO!" A pretty pathetic connection to the "Yankee Rose," aka The Statue of Liberty.

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