Best David Fincher Music Video

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List from Wikipedia. Consolidated a few due to 50-option limit.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
"Bad Girl", Madonna (1993)	5
"Express Yourself", Madonna (1989)	4
"Freedom '90", George Michael (1990)	4
"Vogue", Madonna (1990)	4
"Forever Your Girl", Paula Abdul (1989)	1
"Don't Tell Me The Time" and "Tell It To the Moon", The Motels (1988)	1
"Cold Hearted", Paula Abdul (1989)	1
"Shattered Dreams" (second version), Johnny Hates Jazz (1988)	1
"Straight Up", Paula Abdul (1989)	1
"Real Love", Jody Watley (1989)	0
"Most Of All", Jody Watley (1989)	0
"She's a Mystery to Me", Roy Orbison (1989)	0
"Bamboleo" (second version), Gypsy Kings (1989)	0
"Bamboleo" (third version), Gypsy Kings (1989)	0
"The End of the Innocence", Don Henley (1989)	0
"Only", Nine Inch Nails (2005)	0
"Judith", A Perfect Circle (2000)	0
"6th Avenue Heartache", The Wallflowers (1996)	0
"Love Is Strong", The Rolling Stones (1994)	0
"Who Is It?", Michael Jackson (1993)	0
"(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me" (version 1989), Paula Abdul	0
"L.A. Woman", Billy Idol (1990)	0
"Cradle of Love", Billy Idol (1990)	0
"Janie's Got a Gun", Aerosmith (1989)	0
"Oh Father", Madonna (1989)	0
"Heart", Neneh Cherry (1989)	0
"Holding On", Steve Winwood (1988)	0
"Downtown Train", Patty Smyth (1987)	0
"Endless Nights", Eddie Money (1987)	0
"Should She Cry", Wire Train (1987)	0
"She Comes On", Wire Train (1987)	0
"One Simple Thing", Stabilizers (1986)	0
"All The Love" and "Every Time You Cry", The Outfield (1986)	0
"Celebrate Youth", Rick Springfield (1985)	0
"Shame" and "Shock", The Motels (1985)	0
"Bop Til You Drop", Rick Springfield (1984)	0
"Celebrate Youth", Rick Springfield (1984)	0
"I Don't Mind At All", Bourgeois Tagg (1987)	0
"Notorious" and "Love Will Rise Again", Loverboy (1987)	0
"Roll With It", Steve Winwood (1988)	0
"Most of All", Jody Watley (1988)	0
"Get Rhythm", Ry Cooder (1988)	0
"Englishman in New York", Sting (1988)	0
"Heart of Gold", Johnny Hates Jazz (1988)	0
"Say You Will", Foreigner (1987)	0
"No Surrender", The Outfield (1987)	0
"Can I Hold You", Colin Hay (1987)	0
"Storybook Story", Mark Knopfler (1987)	0
"Johnny B", The Hooters (1987)	0
"Dance This World Away", Rick Springfield (1984)	0

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:44 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUDMeIEMMI&ob=av2e

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:46 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byuMyAFmuak

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:47 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A&ob=av3e

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:47 (thirteen years ago)

'Vogue' with 'Freedom 90' second.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:49 (thirteen years ago)

Roll With It is sexxayyy

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 6 January 2012 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

Shade-tippin' at 2:05.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3mFZzGM4M&ob=av2e

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:51 (thirteen years ago)

IF U DONT VOTE FOR BAD GIRL OR FREEDOM 90 U A MF'IN SCRUB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUII7DTACf4

― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 6 January 2012 23:56 (thirteen years ago)

i was thinkin of this same poll

needs a dvd imo

The Express Yourself video is maybe the easy winner for me, but "Straight Up" is so beautiful in its own way.

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 7 January 2012 00:08 (thirteen years ago)

Freedom '90 - easily

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:33 (thirteen years ago)

how can it be anything other than "Bop Til You Drop"??????

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 03:34 (thirteen years ago)

Cold Hearted!

― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:04 (thirteen years ago)

I can only speak for what I hazily remember but I'm thinking that Express Yourself to Freedom 90 is a helluva run

― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:07 (thirteen years ago)

"Express Yourself" is my second favorite Madonna video of all time. And yet there are so many good choices on this list, I'm so conflicted! Voting against Freedom '90 seems wrong in every conceivable way.

It occurs to me I like Fincher better as a video director than as a movie director, even though I have really liked some of his movies.

― Nicole, Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

I think I'd agree with you on that point. Also on the voting against Freedom 90 seeming wrong.

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:16 (thirteen years ago)

I voted for "Oh Father." I agree with the talking heads in I Want My MTV: her most underrated video.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:23 (thirteen years ago)

Got to give some love for "Janie's Got a Gun," "Cold Hearted Snake," and "Cradle of Love," videos so great they made iconic hits of truly mediocre material.

In that (also truly mediocre) MTV book, Crawford reveals that in her bathtub shot she's actually simply slathered with slime to make it look like she's wet and in the bath, and admirably shrugs it off as just another uncomfortable modeling situation.

That book, btw, does set up a nice dialectic between Fincher and Bay as different sides of the same coin, virtuosos with totally different sets of aesthetics and goals.

A local cover-ish band threw Bourgeois Tagg into its One Hit Wonders show, and I must admit I had never heard the song before that.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)

How was it mediocre?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:38 (thirteen years ago)

Cold Hearted Snake is wonderful however I do put that down to the choreography and dancing of Paula Abdul rather than Fincher's direction. She wasn't always an overly medicated joke!

― Nicole, Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:47 (thirteen years ago)

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk&ob=av3e

― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Saturday, 7 January 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

Oh man I sort of forgot about Cradle of Love. I loved that when it came out. I remember thinking the babysitter looked very cool and digging the fact that her name was "Devon". LOL. .

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Saturday, 7 January 2012 15:09 (thirteen years ago)

gotta go with "Roll With It" narrowly over "Express Yourself" and "Freedom '90"

― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Saturday, 7 January 2012 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

boy Fincher loved the creamy B&W didn't he

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 January 2012 15:50 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mifnMC_Kn1Q

BAMBALEOOOOOOO

― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 7 January 2012 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

I voted for "Oh Father." I agree with the talking heads in I Want My MTV: her most underrated video.

didnt vote it, but feeling this post

― it means 'super-otm' (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:49 (thirteen years ago)

how many times can you make a video for "Bambaleo"

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:54 (thirteen years ago)

Decided to look up one of the obscurities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDj_rRcPhJg

― 40 yoevoo (Eazy), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:04 (thirteen years ago)

either "cold hearted" or "bad girl" i think

also i never picked out the amen break under "freedom '90" #newb

― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:06 (thirteen years ago)

"Most of All", Jody Watley (1988)
"Most Of All", Jody Watley (1989)

huh

― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

I have strong memories of Cradle of Love from the days when we first got MTV and I was still holding out hope that it might show boobies.

― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:14 (thirteen years ago)

oh and even moreso for vogue. Man Fincher is probably single-handedly responsible for like 20% of the sexual frustration I experienced as an early adolescent.

― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

sorry, poor choice of words

― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

RONG

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:03 (thirteen years ago)

SO CLOSE!

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:18 (thirteen years ago)

$6!

http://www.amazon.com/Video-Hits-Paula-Abdul/dp/B0006SSQD4/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1327540801&sr=1-1

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:20 (thirteen years ago)

arsenio hall is blurred out in the "straight up" video for some reason O_O

― dave cool, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:23 (thirteen years ago)

The top four are the best SONGS.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:25 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

the videos fincher's directed since he started in his feature-film career are a funny mix:

"Who Is It?", Michael Jackson (1992)
"Bad Girl", Madonna (1993)
"Love Is Strong", The Rolling Stones (1994)
"6th Avenue Heartache", The Wallflowers (1996)
"Judith", A Perfect Circle (2000)
"Only", Nine Inch Nails (2005)
"Suit & Tie", Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z (2013)

― jaymc, Sunday, 18 May 2014 08:29 (eleven years ago)

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