Journey: After the Fall

Journey: After the Fall
Song released between "Faithfully" (April '83) and "Send Her My Love" (Sept. '83)
Music Video
DVD
B

Maybe this is the funniest Journey video.  Don't get me wrong, it's a good song (one I don't remember from the time), but the visualization of it manages to incorporate a slew of mid-'80s music video cliches, among them:

• A small room with changing light and furniture,
• A guy singing alone in his bed,
• The band "acting" the lyrics,
• Literalism, as the band falls against a blue-sky background,
• And a rip-off/homage to Davey Jones's walking-into-a-wall shuffle at the end of "Daydream Believer."

Some of this would be parodied/ kicked up to a whole other level in Squeeze's playful, surrealistic "Hourglass" four years later.