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

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.

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31. “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Nirvana (1991)
65 points/7 votes
Director: Samuel Bayer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Cool video + shit song = no vote

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.

this is the only good music video directed by samuel bayer

he is otherwise the worst visual stylist of the '90s and beyond

Clemenza, can you hyperlink the URL's for the videos? Or just include the https:// part so it does it automatically. It will save people having to copy/paste those URL's.

Picking an image for this was hard too--there’s just so many of them. Cobain staring out at what’s in front him--hatefully? uncomprehendingly?--has always stayed in my mind.

I didn’t vote for this, but it was like not putting Citizen Kane on my favourite-films list. It’s just too familiar, or over-discussed, or something. When it appeared, I doubt a video up to that point had made such a strong impression on me. I played it for various classes of mine for 15 years running, trying to explain the kind of impact it had, the musical landscape--my version of it, anyway--when it appeared, Marcus comparing it to Shakespeare, etc. And I’d follow by doing something I never did: I’d play Weird Al’s “Smells Like Nirvana.”

I don't want the videos embedded. If someone can post what you mean by hyperlink, I'll do that.

Or just include the https:// part so it does it automatically

this will embed them

If you use angle brackets with the "url" tag around the text it works.

Like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

clemenza, click on "show formatting help" and refer to first example in "for hyperlinks, use"

Just show men which brackets...you mean and ?

men = me, this man

It hyperlinked to "and"! I think I know what you mean now.

"Teen Spirit" definitely seemed to be a Rubicon for pop culture, even at the time, but I think years of that dreary piss-coloured palette in dozens of videos have dimmed its allure for me.

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30. “The Box,” Orbital (1996)
67 points/5 votes
Director: Luke Losey

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qddG0iUSax4&t

I've grown to like the song, but the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" still means nothing to me.

Why does that hyperlink not work? That's the url.

"the box" my no. 2

you have to include the http://, otherwise it thinks it's a board link, idk

Okay, let me try something on a test thread.

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Important, sure, but not even the best music video set in high school--though I'm probably not thinking of any of the one's you might be thinking of.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qddG0iUSax4

Adding http:// and enclosing the whole thing with url tags gives you an embed. I'll try one more hyperlink for the next one, and if it doesn't work, I'm just going to forget about it.

30. “The Box,” Orbital (1996)

very helpful

looks like you got it working clem! very excited for no. 29

I've never seen The Box before! I knew about it at the time but didn't have access to satellite tv, then forgot about it for twenty years I guess. Pretty good, poor Tilda.

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29. “Wicked Game,” Chris Isaak (1989)
67 points/7 votes
Director: Herb Ritts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-qI62gNJM

Went looking online for the original Wicked Game video with the clips from Wild At Heart a few months ago and couldn't find it.

it was hard to pick one herb ritts video but i went with this one because of the clouds. he was unmatched in making gorgeous people look supernaturally gorgeous

It didn't work--got the embed. I'm just going to ask everyone to let that go...If I get ambitious tonight, I'll try to do all that in advance, but no guarantee.

Liked this at the time, both the song and video, but didn't vote for it. Linked in my mind with Bruce Weber's documentary on Chet Baker.

i do not care about links so this is fine

I read about the Wild at Heart version, directed by Lynch--I've never seen it, I don't think.

Anyone can find these videos without a link, it's fine.

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28. “Unfinished Sympathy,” Massive Attack (1991)
68 points/8 votes
Director: Baillie Walsh

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI

New to me, but I like this one. I almost voted for Morrissey's "Tomorrow," another person-walking-around video, and I think the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" was the same thing--must be dozens of them.

Voted for a different MA video but this is a good one.

A good video, but maybe one that suffered, for me, from a kind of inverse of the whole bad song/great video problem. Which is to say, I love the song so much that I'm not sure I would like the video so much if a less interesting song were being played overtop of it.

Might've learned I was gay after reveling in the 'Wicked Game' video.

Voted for "The Box."

xxp

(some mangled grammar--and logic(?)--in there, but hopefully youl get what I mean)

Might've confirmed I was straight after reveling in Helena Christensen in the "Wicked Game" video--something for everyone.

TMI

It made me wanna buy a fragrance

Another tie at #26...I'll post these two, then continue tomorrow (again, around mid-day). Should I finish on Saturday or Monday?

Viborg hasn't posted, but thanks again to him for splitting all the preliminary work.

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26. “Transmission,” Joy Division (1979)
68 points/5 votes
Live performance, “Something Else” (BBC)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

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26. “Oblivion,” Grimes (2012)
68 points/5 votes
Director: Emily Kai Bock

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tain2qdt3K4

They're the greatest dancers.

happy birthday, Grimes!