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

looking at my ballot just hoping "smalltown boy" places

so many little joys in the protection vid

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14. “Around the World,” Daft Punk (1997)
100 points/9 votes
Director: Michel Gondry

Sorry, I've had something here to attend to, but I'm finished. I'll probably just carry on and finish today.

Ppl not actually poptimists when it comes to videos I see.

more like auteurists

15th for "Cloudbusting," not 165--attention divided.

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12. “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Sinead O'Connor (1990)
107 points/12 votes
Director: John Maybury

is there a tie for 12 or did we miss 13

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13. “Drop,” Pharcyde (1995)
104 points/9 votes
Director: Spike Jonze

Fuck, sorry...I've been trying to deal with something here.

I love Pharcyde's "Frontline," and looked into the video--very interesting and conceptual for the first half, then something I didn't feel comfortable voting for. Love "Nothing Compares," another one I showed to students every year, although I didn't vote for it. Surely the greatest video homage to a famous film.

Homage to what film?

I've always assumed The Passion of Joan of Arc--maybe I'm reading too much into it.

The Passion of Joan of Arc?

That wasn't questioning you, sorry, it was an answer to the previous. But I don't know if it's an intentional homage.

I was about to guess that one, but honestly the connection had never occurred to me before now

Googled the two together and found this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ivsoYJ3qs

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11. “Sledgehammer,” Peter Gabriel (1986)
111 points/11 votes
Director: Stephen R. Johnson

iirc this topped vh1s all time poll in the early 2000s
happy to be corrected if wrong

Another one I never got. I was working in a record store at the time, and our assistant manager was a fanatical fan--played So or Invisible Touch or Mike & the Mechanics seemingly every time he was on cash (or would walk around the store air-drumming to them). Nice guy, but that didn't help.

The 11th song got 111 points from 11 voters.

11th video, I mean.

I should have voted but anything but Top 3 for Sledgehammer is a travesty

otm

a TRAIN goes through his EARS u guys

There's only two videos I'd even hear a CASE for being better than Sledgehammer and they're probably on their way

There's basically 8 videos left that I'm gonna see and be like "come on, you guys"

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10. “Come Into My World,” Kylie Minogue (2002)
113 points/8 votes
Director: Michel Gondry

come on, you guys

Oops--have to download the last 10 screenshots.

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10. “Come Into My World,” Kylie Minogue (2002)
113 points/8 votes
Director: Michel Gondry

i was expecting a lot of comments about “drop” lol

best music video ever

i didn’t vote for any stop motion animation videos, who can say why

Didn't know the video, didn't know the song. She got lots of votes for other videos, too--didn't know any of them. I'm a little behind here--she's "The Loco-motion" to me.

Sledgehammer was my #8 but two of the ones above it were pretty silly choices.

Sledgehammer video is cool, but this isn't the technical achievement awards or whatever.

(i.e., #11 placement is totally fine)

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9. “Once in a Lifetime,” Talking Heads (1981)
114 points/12 votes
Director: Toni Basil & David Byrne

Nice eyesore...image 09, not image 9.

11 seems reasonable for sledgehammer.

“drop” is definitely the video i am most ashamed about leaving off, would’ve been a top 3 contender for me if i didn’t skim over it on the noms sheet.

the pharcyde didn’t learn to rap their lines backwards just to wind up outside the top ten smh

If Reet Petite places *I* will be like "come on, you guys."

Anyway, this one's objectively great, but not much of a fan in general.

I didn't know Toni Basil co-directed it, though, that was interesting.

So far we've seen three MTV Video of the Year Award winners: "Money for Nothing" (1986), "Sledgehammer" (1987), and "Nothing Compares 2U" (1990).

I assume Van Halen's "Right Now" (1992) and Aerosmith's "Cryin'" (1994) are coming up.

xp I didn't either, although I know about her choreography career and everything.

If there's a moderator around, maybe you could remove those two posts with the ugly broken links...thanks in advance.

xxp Which videos won in '88, '91, & '93?

(xxxpost) Rest easy.

"Teen Spirit" came out late in the year, otherwise I'd assume that won in '91.

come on, you guys