Description

Like other titles in Universals 20th Century Masters – dvd collection series of discount-priced video best-offs, this one devoted to Extreme contains only five music videos and runs a mere 21 minutes. Still, it really does contain, as its title declares, the best of Extreme, encapsulating the band’s career in that amount of time. The five videos are in the order of the band’s first five entries in Billboards Mainstream Rock chart, starting with Kid Ego from the debut album Extreme, followed by the four best-known songs from Pornografitti: Decadence Dance, More Than Words, Hole Hearted and Get the Funk Out. All five are performance videos, with added elements such as a facetious list of dos and donts during Decadence Dance, and a midget, a beauty queen, and a horn section during Get the Funk Out. On Kid Ego, the band, playing in what looks like a stage set minus the surrounding arena and crowd, comes on practically like a parody of an 80s hair metal outfit, shaking their long, teased hair and jean-clad backsides as the cameras tip and sway and the cuts come fast and furious. Decadence Dance is more of the same, but, of course, the big change comes with the ballad More Than Words, which features only singer Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt playing acoustic. (Drummer Paul Geary and bassist Pat Badger obligingly hold up lighters halfway through.) Hole Hearted, which finds the band playing on a street before passers by, is another acoustic number, if a more up-tempo one, and Get the Funk Out returns to the earlier heavy metal approach. Extreme got in on the late days of the hair metal trend of the 80s, but they made the most of it, and these performances show them to be talented purveyors of the style.

Track listing:
1. Kid Ego
2. Decadence Dance
3. More Than Words
4. Hole Hearted
5. Get The Funk Out