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37. “Human Behaviour,” Björk (1993)58 points/7 votesDirector: 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
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35. “Just,” Radiohead (1995)59 points/5 votesDirector: Jamie Thraves
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFLtNYI3Ls
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
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35. “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits (1985)59 points/5 votesDirector: Steve Barron
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
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
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
34. “Enjoy the Silence,” Depeche Mode (1990)61 points/6 votesDirector: Anton Corbijn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
oops
https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-34.jpg
― 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
― 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
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
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33. “Come to Daddy,” Aphex Twin (1997)63 points/7 votesDirector: 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
Same, for the most part, but I do confess to cueing up different songs to one of the videos in my top 10.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
I admire the Corbijn aesthetic in theory but not enough to vote for any one example.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
sic, you're just going to have to live with the way I'm doing this
I'm living with it, I was just curious as to why you're doing it this way, so I asked why
― beepy fridges (sic), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
https://phildellio.tripod.com/video-32.jpg
32. “Groove Is in the Heart,” Deee-Lite (1990)64 points/7 votesDirector: Hiroyuki Nakano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
Didn't vote for it, but this is the first one where I can say I loved it when it was on the air.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
Many XPs: As I said on the noms thread, hyperlinks are the way to go for posting vids if embeds are verboten. It's a little more work for the pollrunner, but it's ultimately worth it, imho.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
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31. “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Nirvana (1991)65 points/7 votesDirector: Samuel Bayer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
I almost think the opposite here.If you can appreciate the video despite an aversion to the song, that is a good video.If you already love the song, you're primed to appreciate the video already, so maybe it's not as good as you think.
― enochroot, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link
this is the only good music video directed by samuel bayer
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link