"Battle Stations"
Obviously this isn't an official video—pretty sure this song never had one. Someone has just overlaid the audio with footage from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which, since this song was on the movie soundtrack, works perfectly well.
There was nothing wrong with Winger (well, okay, "Seventeen" was a little bit on the skeevy side, even back then, and time has not been kind). They were a perfectly fine, enjoyable, middle-of-the-road rock band. And then Beavis and Butt-Head came along and absolutely ended them. Putting lame-ass Stewart in a Winger t-shirt meant that no one could admit to liking them ever again.
Admittedly I fell prey to that at the time, and it's funny how that sentiment lingers—I'm having a hard time refraining from using all sorts of negative adjectives in this post, even as I talk about how they're not that bad—but now all these years later I feel safe in admitting that I like Winger just fine. Were they my favorite? No. Do I have their CDs? Um...actually, I'm not sure. I know I definitely used to own at least one, but I don't know offhand if it got purged from my collection at some point. But I have plenty of their songs in my iTunes library, so I suppose whether or not I still own the physical CDs is irrelevant.
This is my favorite song of theirs, not necessarily because it's the best (that honor may go to "Easy Come Easy Go," in my opinion), but because one of my friends chose it (and its "give me rock or give me death" message) as my anthem. Obviously it's impossible to argue, since I'm out here still fighting the good fight, 28 years later.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, this song is not available on Spotify. So if you check out my Rocktober 2019 playlist, Winger is represented instead by "Easy Come Easy Go."
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