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

I understand why people voted for this, I do. It's just another one that drew a "Wow--still?" response from me. (The song was used well in a recent TV show...Might have been The Handmaid's Tale.)

the absence of "smalltown boy" from this poll hurts my heart

I didn't rank my votes, but Let Forever Be was on my ballot for sure

Jesus, my mind's just not here right now...Let me put up 7 and 8.

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8. “Sugar Water,” Cibo Matto (1996)
120 points/9 votes
Director: Michel Gondry

come on, you guys

pretty good michel gondry poll

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

Without checking wikipedia I know 2 of these are "Losing My Religion" and "Jeremy."

"Sugar Water" is dope but wow wtf #8 damn yo

Whiney, you shoulda voted

Re: "Sugar Water" – I'm not huge on "one shot" stuff, the show-offy-ness of the technique tends to distract me (though it is a cool video)

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7. “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” Missy Elliott (1996)
126 points/10 votes
Director: Hype Williams

come on, you guys

(xp although I just re-watched an ep. of "You're the Worst" in which each segment of the show is one long shot, or at least made to look that way, and it's so awesome)

Sorry about messing up...I'll hold off for a few minutes till #4--hopefully I can manage not to fuck up the top four.

I’m glad people remember and like “Sugar Water.”

I didn't realize/remember how many of these Gondry directed (and I have the DVD); it's kind of insane

Re: "Sugar Water" – I'm not huge on "one shot" stuff, the show-offy-ness of the technique tends to distract me (though it is a cool video)

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"one shot" (with obvious edits) video i love: scarface "on my block" (which is not placing :( )

"the rain" is hype williams' first and likely only placement on the poll, and i think that sucks way more than "sledgehammer" at 11

The Busta Rhymes videos were Hype Williams’s best.

Yeah "Supa Dupa Fly" vs "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" is a close one. Invention of the form vs perfection of the form.

I probably should have voted for "Woo-hah," I used to love that. My list of stuff I had intended to vote for came together so fast, I never really looked outside of that.

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4. “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” Bob Dylan (1965)
144 points/14 votes
Director: D.A. Pennebaker

Shoulda used the frame where he holds up the "Pavement" sign ;)

"the perfect kiss" is obv in the top three but what else

also, will the other two videos be by michel gondry

come on, you guys

i see respect is still owed to gnr's "estranged"

did janet get votesplit out of the top 40 entirely

i have so many questions

come on, you guys

lol @ these results. I guess every music video poll ever should be like, here, enjoy these two amazing Gondry DVDs that are like the apex of the form and then tell us what OTHER videos you like.

I think "Everlong" and "Fell In Love With A Girl" are Gondry's remaining vids that have any shot.

I need to find the Top 100 videos ballot I made for a list that never happened

also i would like to suggest that the video for kylie minogue's "slow" >>>>>>>>>> "come into my world"

I voted for "Estranged"!

come on my selector

I'm always seeing these things through the prism of Canada's MuchMusic, and my guess is--just a guess--they were a little more flexible in what they played and when they played it. I'm sure I would have seen the Isaak video, as an example, much closer to its release date.

I feel like they did. I was young but I remember them being quite freeform in the late 80s. I know I was perplexed when they played all of Laurie Anderson's Home of the Brave more than once.

Both this and the #2 got more votes than the #1, just not as many points.

If the "Like a Rolling Stone" video hadn't been made a few years ago, I probably would have voted for this. I still wonder how many people have even seen the video for "Like a Rolling Stone" (the one that's set up like a cable feed, where you can hop around from show to show and they're all lip-synching the song). It's a real love it or hate it thing.

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3. “The Perfect Kiss,” New Order (1985)
150 points/9 votes/two #1 votes
Director: Jonathan Demme

come on, you guys

I guess they didn't make a video for "All Day Long"--wish they had.

Is there a story to Jonathan Demme's involvement? "Bizarre Love Triangle" is used well in Married to the Mob, but that comes later.

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2. “Sabotage,” Beastie Boys (1994)
176 points/19 votes
Director: Spike Jonze

I didn’t vote but that would have been my #2.

This may have received a #1 vote, but the voter didn't confirm...The rare--extremely rare--video that brought me around to the song. When I put out Radio On in the '90s, I wrote about a page on the song, I think, almost all of it about the video. (Couldn't find room to vote for it, though.)

Really ... come on, you guys

^Is this still about "Sledgehammer"?

"Sabotage" one of the only post-1990 videos I'm really even aware of so points for iconic-ness? But somehow this kind of "what if we made it look just like TV from decade X," fresh at the time, doesn't seem as fun for me anymore. I think WandaVision is basically the last change to ring on that move and the last time it could be interesting.

Just before posting the last one, I'll say again that Viborg did a lot of the work here. He's been MIA on the thread.

Before starting, I wouldn't have thought it possible the #1 would be new to me (video and song). I realize that says more about me than the video/song.

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1. “Star Guitar,” Chemical Brothers (2002)
184 points/12 votes/one #1 vote
Director: Michel Gondry

Surprisingly pleased with the #1 after some uninspired entries at 2 and 3.