Martha, My Dear: ILM's All-Time Video-Poll Results Thread

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First two placings suggest a really fun rollout, I'm here for this

Josefa, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link

That Devo doc containing the "Jocko Homo" video is, curiously/appropriately, included on the Criterion disc of Island of Lost Souls (1932).

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link

i kinda like the slowed version of “jocko” from the video

roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-38.jpg

38. “Relax,” Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1983)
57 points/7 votes
Director: Bernard Rose

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link

One I do remember, and "Two Tribes." I like the long "Relax" sequence in De Palma's Body Double (pretty sure Holly Johnson appears).

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link

xps also a voter for Jocko Homo, could have voted for all of those early Devo videos, arresting genius.

a partial Chuck Statler videography (he doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry, wth?):

1976 Devo: Jocko Homo (Music Video)
1976 Devo: The Truth About De-Evolution (Short)
1976 Devo: Secret Agent Man
1977 Suicide Commandos: Burn it Down
1978 Devo: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Music Video)
1979 Devo: The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise (Music Video)
1979 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding (Music Video)
1979 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Oliver's Army (Music Video)
1979 Madness: One Step Beyond (Music Video)
1979 Nick Lowe: Cruel to Be Kind (Music Video)
1980 Devo: Whip It
1980 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: High Fidelity (Music Video)
1980 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down (Music Video)
1980 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Love for Tender (Music Video)
1980 The Cars: Panorama (Music Video)
1980 The J. Geils Band: Love Stinks (Music Video)
1981 Devo: Beautiful World
1981 Devo: The Men Who Make the Music (Video)
1981 The Time: Cool (Music Video)
1983 Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Let Them All Talk (Music Video)

bulb after bulb, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link

fuck, why didn't i vote for "relax"

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link

why not link the videos?

beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link

Get this: my parents didn't get cable until 2000. Growing up, I depended on Friday Night Videos and my friends.

Get this: I've never had cable.

beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link

At least a half-dozen of those got votes.

I like the screenshots better--whatever polls I've done, the fun I have creating the images are really the main reason. You can click on the link easily enough if you want to watch the video.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-37.jpg

37. “Human Behaviour,” Björk (1993)
58 points/7 votes
Director: Michel Gondry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mRIhK9seg

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link

how many times do y'all think gondry will place on this poll

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link

123

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:30 (two years ago) link

The answer to that question...amazed me.

I might have had some dim awareness before starting this that Björk was considered an important video artist. But because her music has never meant anything to me, the videos haven't either. Think I may have seen this one once--I vaguely remember the giant insects--the other two that placed, never.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link

i think i was avoiding putting gondry on my ballot bc i knew he'd be overrepresented here and then i belatedly realized he did the chemical brothers video i voted for ("star guitar")

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link

"star guitar" is the greatest visual representation of how it feels like the landscape syncs up with the music in your headphones when you're staring out the window of a train

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link

Never seen that Sparks video - otherwise not surprised by the first few results.

You mind bolding the text in the results entries, clemenza? Helps for those of us with images turned off, thanks

Vinnie, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link

I can do that, yes--you mean the text right under the image, right?

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-35b.jpg

35. “Just,” Radiohead (1995)
59 points/5 votes
Director: Jamie Thraves

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFLtNYI3Ls

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-35a.jpg

35. “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits (1985)
59 points/5 votes
Director: Steve Barron

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link

I prefer the G-rated laser-version "Relax" video just for the close-up of Paul Rutherford going "Ooh Yeah! Ooh Yeah!"

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link

eww

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link

First tie.

I was really surprised the Dire Straits video showed up. Again, no criticism of anyone who voted for it...I thought, if nothing else, the one line would have kept it out. I had an antipathy to it long before that became a story. I can't get past the song itself, and there was always something kind of, I don't know, self-serving about the concept for both the artist and MTV.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link

the computer graphics were the attraction to me as a kid, moreso than the song. didn't vote for it though. my version of voting for "money for nothing" was voting for "right now"

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link

the one line would have kept it out

Yeah, how did they get away with "blister on your thumb"?!?

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link

i mean, the video came out two years before i was born but it still looked kinda cool whenever i ended up seeing it (prob around '98, pop-up video?) xp

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link

Unfortunately I can't remember how 'groundbreaking' the money for nothing video seemed to 12 year old me, but I threw it a vote, guess I forgot about the one line.

ledge, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link

Believe me, I'm someone who more often than not pushes back against the idea that "you can't like this because of one line." Here, I don't have to even grapple with that because I dislike the song and video above and beyond the line.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link

video looks a billion times better than the metaverse

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link

I posted a few months ago about playing the "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" video for a grade 6 class (Boy George's birthday) and suddenly having to shut it off because of blackface--I had zero recollection of that, and don't ever remember it being a story.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link

Y'all could've just voted for this instead and not had to deal with any such conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPzFnZkZmI

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link

"star guitar" is the greatest visual representation of how it feels like the landscape syncs up with the music in your headphones when you're staring out the window of a train

This. I'd been thinking about how great it would be to do a music video like this for years leading up to it, and when "Star Guitar" came out I thought it had basically been made for me. Easy vote.

Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link

why not link the videos?

I like the screenshots better--whatever polls I've done, the fun I have creating the images are really the main reason. You can click on the link easily enough if you want to watch the video.

..........but you are not linking the videos!!!! that is what I asked

beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link

so, wait, did y'all vote for videos despite your feelings for the song?

I didn't.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link

Cool video + shit song = no vote

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link

34. “Enjoy the Silence,” Depeche Mode (1990)
61 points/6 votes
Director: Anton Corbijn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link

oops

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-34.jpg

34. “Enjoy the Silence,” Depeche Mode (1990)
61 points/6 votes
Director: Anton Corbijn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link

I already liked most of the songs whose videos I voted for, and then a couple were songs I discovered/came to like through the videos.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link

How much weight did people give to the song in their ballot. I liked every track I voted for, if not crazy for all of them. Did anyone vote for a video where they didn't rate the song at all?

Xpost

Dan Worsley, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link

Same as Alfred for me.

sic, you're just going to have to live with the way I'm doing this. I know it requires a great deal of creative detective work to locate these videos on the internet.

I was going to say that the Depeche Mode video was obviously a tribute to the video for Joy Division's "Atmosphere," then found out Corbijn did both.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link

video looks a billion times better than the metaverse

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:52 AM

otm

Agree with clemenza — not a very good song. Video was pretty striking in 85/86 though. I hadn't seen NES or Atari or anything like that yet, so it was very much a "WOW THEY CAN DO THAT???" kind of reaction. I wouldn't have voted for it, but I can definitely see how someone could justify a vote in this poll.

Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link

I didn't vote for anything with a song I outright dislike but there were at least a couple I would never choose to put on either.

Chris L, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link

I'm a little older, so I think the novelty aspect that would have wowed someone younger in 1985 didn't have the same affect on me; I remember thinking it was "interesting." But I get that.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link

so, wait, did y'all vote for videos despite your feelings for the song?

it depends! again, i do not love "right now" as a song, but the video is fucking insane

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link

nice to see a corbijn video appear, this is probably the most obvious thing to say bc he's a photographer but his videos really do feel like gorgeous moving photographs

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link

https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-33.jpg

33. “Come to Daddy,” Aphex Twin (1997)
63 points/7 votes
Director: Chris Cunningham

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ827lkktYs

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link

I wanted to vote for it but had to google "electronic music video with train" to remember the artist and title for "Star Guitar."

Chris L, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link

I don’t care for videos that are scary or unpleasantly weird (and I was a huge Aphex Twin fan)

Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link

As I posted earlier, beauty--my version of it, anyway--was the biggest factor in 40 or 45 of my 50 picks: beauty, plus my feelings about the song. I did, at least once, vote for a video because I found the images creepy and disturbing. Didn't vote for this one, but I can see where someone would feel the same about it.

clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link


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