I know the song, and I figure I must have seen some of the video at some point, but the revelation of the poll for me was "Unfinished Sympathy".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 02:30 (two years ago) link
I was a #1 vote for "Sabotage" btw, didn't see the email. Given that my son makes me play him that video over and over again, it definitely has legs.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
I feel like I could make a separate list of "movie scenes that I wish could be music videos."
Andy Warhol's Vinyl for Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' "Nowhere to Run"
James Benning's 11 x 14 for Bob Dylan's "Black Diamond Bay" (two scenes actually)
Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and GoodFellas for "Then He Kissed Me," "Mickey's Monkey," "What Is Life," "Jumping Jack Flash," "Atlantis" and probably many others
Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising for "He's a Rebel"
etc.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" in this list is one example. I feel like part of the attraction of scenes like that is that they're not independent works; the songs come in, blend with the movie and leave. Watching them on their own feels like it's inflating them somehow.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
I've written a book on the subject (pop music in films), and my interest in the two subjects is connected I'm sure. (Another voter has also written a book on the subject...I won't link to his without checking.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
But then Kenneth Anger's use of the Paris Sisters' "Dream Lover" in Kustom Kar Kommandos strikes me as a special case because it's not an excerpt from the film, it's the entire film. I didn't vote for it bc I was trying to honor the distinction between that and videos that were made to promote a record, but I guess that is the principal difference between that and, say, Bruce Conner's film for "Mongoloid" by Devo.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
the subterranean “video” has surely been seen by far more people than the entirety of don’t look back, and certainly passes the iconicity test (based on how often it’s been parodied and imitated)
it’s a bit different from scenes from narrative films that prominently use a song
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
To me, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" works fine as a (legitimate) standalone video. If Don't Look Back didn't exist, but MTV had existed in 1965, I could see where Dylan would have come up with exactly the same thing as his idea of what a video should look like.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
(The "Like a Rolling Stone" video that I voted for, which was probably done six or seven years ago, I would love to know the extent of Dylan's involvement with that. Other than commissioning and ultimately approving it, my guess is nil--I just can't imagine him coming up with anything like what materialized.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2af69xt0VKE
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
I think Bob Roberts came out before "Subterranean" became an "official" video, so I vaguely remember being thrilled just to see the Don't Look Back sequence referenced. (Didn't care for the film at the time, got better when I watched it years later.) Looking at it now, it's just weird that the women look like the Robert Palmer women--reference overload.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Bob Roberts did it a few years after INXS iirc
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
The Maxell advert is one of the best TV adverts of all time. There’s another one which uses Desmond Dekker’s ‘Israelites’ along same lines to diminishing returns.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
That would be this, then. As with “Into The Valley”, I could never hear the track the same way again.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KShjB5jyjM
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lucero
realized while watching the video for the odb remix of "woo-hah got you all in check" that i love this dude's work, always creative if on a more modest level than say a hype williams, sucks he died so young. tha alkaholiks video he did ("the next level") is pretty much as good as "'93 til infinity"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
oh yeah thats a good videography. he loved him some contrast.
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
kush is a GREAT video
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xJBKVGTGs
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
always loved the song/video for xzibit's "paparazzi"
xp lol
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
this is making me want to do a poll for just hip-hop music videos
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
would participate
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
after i finished my ballot i made a youtube playlist of it, then i had the bright idea to expand it to 100 places, so here's the finished product:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRIBtlBJdQ_IZV5yzhr1MnbzHhjbes9-
pretty proud of it, very rewarding project! i've wanted to do something like this since youtube first came into existence and now a majority of the videos have hd upgrades
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
that link doesn't work because of the weird hyphen at the end, so here's the real link:
brad's all-time top 100 favorite music videos ever
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
Good selecting. I'm happy anyone else has seen and loves "Y Control."
― billstevejim, Thursday, 24 March 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
nice brad! lots of crossover with my favs
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Thursday, 24 March 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Totally forgot something I'm almost certain I would have voted for: Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard." I think it was made a couple of years after Graceland; it starts with Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. When Mickey Mantle shows up, it's as sublime a moment as Paul McCartney in "They Don't Know"--obviously Paul Simon's dream as a kid, to be pitching to Mickey Mantle, and suddenly there he is. Near the end, another sports icon.
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 March 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
I didn't vote in the Broadcast poll, because I really only remember (and love) "Echo's Answer," but I wish I'd known about this for the video poll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yEz1eZmUco
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 June 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
AV Club predictably making some eye rolling choices. https://www.avclub.com/50-greatest-music-videos-ranked-1850820669/slides/52
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
Very quickly scanning, but yeah. If you could generate a Masterpiece Theatre equivalent of a greatest-videos list, this would be it. (Which is not to imply that most of the famous ones here are boring but good--they're boring and bad.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link