No Rock And Roll Fun

CASH SCOOPS VIDEO LIST: We're so surprised that Johnny Cash's almost unwatchably brittle Hurt has come top of 3's best video poll that we're almost not bothered enough to throw slippers and shoes at the rubbish premise for the list in the first place. It's meant to celebrate music video history, yet because they're 3, they had to work the number three in somehow, so its marking "over three decades" of music videos - which is both arbitary (why not 'over three hundred thousand videos made', say, or 'more than 3,333,333 hours of music videos shot') and wrong. Or at least, accurate but misleading, since this year is probably the 75th anniversary of the pop video, if you measure from Bessie Smith's Saint Louis Blues; or over sixty years, if you start from the Soundies produced for the visual jukeboxes in the 1940s.