Ten doses of pure camp. It's good for what ails ya!

If the pic above makes you think "Doctor doctor, can't you see I'm burning, burning" then I've got the perfect cure for any affliction. 10 music videos that will boost your camp appreciation to its highest level.

For some reason, a lot of people associate "camp" with something cheesy or embarrassing. Those people are wrong. The artists in these clips have provided a very valuable service to quite a few gay boys i've known (and one gay boy in particular...me). It's called "realization", as in "I realized I was gay when I found myself lip-synching to Kylie's "I Should Be So Lucky" on the school bus". So sit back and enjoy this camp injection. I guarantee you'll feel better.

10. JOI LANSING "WEB OF LOVE"

In the 1960's, Joi Lansing completed the trifecta of busty blond B-movie bombshells that also included Mamie Van Doren and Jayne Mansfield. Like Jayne, Joi's story ended tragically when she died of breast cancer in 1972 at the age of 43. Decades before MTV, Joi starred in what may be the first music videos ever made, for the songs The Silencer and this song, called Web of Love.

Camp Credentials: Joi Lansing!, girls in fur bikinis, the whitest witch doctor you'll ever see.

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9. LAURA BRANIGAN "GLORIA"

Laura Branigan is my 2nd all time favorite singer (for a clue to who my first is, just look at my name). I remember her very first appearance on Solid Gold, wearing a blue and white striped outfit and belting out Gloria (or pretending to belt it out). It's because of her that I became obsessed with Billboard magazine, and started listening to Casey Kasem and the Top 40 every weekend.

I can't tell you how devastated I was when she died four years ago, and perplexed with how little media attention it got (and I'm still a little peeved that Celine Dion swooped down from Canada and basically stole her career). But I digress. A music video for Laura's first hit wasn't even planned until the song started slowly rising on the chart, then the record label pulled $2.50 out of the budget, and a video was shot. I think Rachael Harris said it best on VH-1's I Love The 80's, "This is the most ghetto video ever made".

Camp Credentials: Laura's lightning bolt outfit, glitter balls, smoke effects, it's the song "Gloria"

8. BARBRA STREISAND "LEFT IN THE DARK"

The 1984 Barbra Streisand album Emotion is one of her most underrated (and contains a killer duet with Kim Carnes called Make No Mistake, He's Mine). It also features Barbra doing her best Bonnie Tyler in the Jim Steinman epic Left in the Dark.

Camp Credentials: SEE Barbra and Kris Kristofferson reunited for the first time since A Star is Born!, SEE Barbra smoke and drink at the same time! SEE Barbra forget to lip-synch a line! SEE a bizarre spoken intro set to Law & Order style sound effects!

7. TOMMY SEEBACH "APACHE"

When I see clips like Tommy Seebach's Apache, it makes me wish there more music videos from the 70's. Especially if they're as entertainingly insane as this one.

Camp Credentials: A Doug Henning lookalike...in fringe! (do you need more?)

6. DEE D. JACKSON "AUTOMATIC LOVER"

The first time I saw Dee D. Jackson's "Automatic Lover", I was a couple of minutes into it before I realized that it wasn't a French & Saunders parody.

Camp Credentials: It's Edina Monsoon in space!

5. PIA ZADORA & JERMAINE JACKSON "WHEN THE RAIN BEGINS TO FALL"

Without a doubt the greatest duet of the 80's, the video for Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson's "When the Rain begins to Fall" was the opening scene to Pia's classic 1984 musical Voyage of the Rock Aliens. The fact that the video has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie is just one of the reasons it works so well.

Camp Credentials: It's Pia Zadora in a gay Mad Max movie.

4. JAN TERRI "LOSING YOU"

Who doesn't love Jan Terri? She's the reason they invented the phrase "unique musical stylings". You can say what you want, but she still has more talent than most of the pop tarts out there now. Seriously.

Camp Credentials: everything...but singing in front of a giant sump pump is a nice touch. Watch it here.

3. MARY HART "FOOTLOOSE"

If I could pinpoint the moment I knew that life was unfair, it would probably be when i found out they had canceled Dolly Parton's variety show back in 1987. If anyone was born to have her own variety show, it was her.

Dolly had many guest stars during her short run, but the most infamous is probably Mary Hart. This was back when the Entertainment Tonight star had insured her legs with Lloyd's of London for a million dollars. She appeared on the show to perform "Footloose", with a couple of actors who were playing her Lloyd's representatives. What followed was awe-inspiring, veering between Mary's singing and dancing and low comedy shtick. I remember Dennis Miller telling the story of how his SNL co-star Jan Hooks would watch this clip before every show started, to put her in the right frame of mind.

Camp Credentials: It's Mary Hart singing Footloose!

Watch it here.

2. SARAH BRIGHTMAN & HOT GOSSIP "I LOST MY HEART TO A STARSHIP TROOPER"

Before she was an internationally adored diva, Sarah Brightman was a member of the disco act Hot Gossip. They cashed in on the late-70's space craze with this ode to science fiction, and in the process, I lost my heart to I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper.

Camp Credentials: It's Studio 54...in Space! Watch it here.

1. AIR SUPPLY "MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL"

Close your eyes, I want to ride the skies in my sweet dreams..You know, there's one sure way to get on my bad side, and that's by dissing Air Supply. They had their final top ten hit with this Jim Steinman epic (wait..is there any Steinman song that ISN'T an epic?).

Camp Credentials: awkward voice over acting, spinning camera effects, pictures that come to life, and my personal favorite, smoke and lasers. It doesn't get much better.

Hopefully, you've found something here to quench your camp thirst, and tide you over, at least until that Anna Nicole movie comes out.