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i downloaded some of my favorite videos today i can watch these over and over again and still get excited:

stripsearch - faith no more
last cup of sorrow - faith no more
high and dry - radiohead
mixed bizness - beck
sexx laws (long version) - beck

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

playgroup - number one

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris Cunningham has made most of my favourite videos -
Bjork - All is Full of Love
the Portishead underwater one (which one was it??)
Madonna - Frozen
Squarepusher

other great videos...... some of the later Depeche Mode ones, the OK Computer Radiohead ones.....

...and Playgroup are FANTASTIC. Their DJ Kicks album - essentail.

― russ t, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yo la tengo - Tom Courtenay
aphex twin - come to daddy

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Madonna - Frozen"

i like that one too...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

words are very
unnecessary

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
esp. during Beavis&Butthead!

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex twin - Donkey Rhubarb.
Sonic Youth - Dirth Boots.
Everything Chris Cunningham has done with Warp.

― neil, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Wave Twisters count?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Russ T the underwater Portishead vid was 'Only You'

my favourites are ANYTHING directed by Shynola (Junior Senior, Quannum, Radiohead etc.), Michel Gondry and H5 so thats most crazy French dance videos, all Bjork vids, all Massive Attack vids, all Daft Punk vids (esp. 'Burnin'), Pharcyde's 'Drop', MARRS 'Pump Up The Volume', Souls Of Mischief '93 Til Infinity', Ken Ishii 'Extra', Madonna 'Bedtime Story', Coldcut 'More Beats & Pieces' i could go on forever

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

cheers Stevem - course it was Only You - utterly fantastic - that and Bjork is my fave video.
Bedtime Story's pretty great, too.

And some of the Massive videos, too, although Special Cases was really cheap and nasty.... merely a collection of horrible stock imagery. Ugh.

Also, we can't forget the Pet Shop Boys - consistently brilliant videos. The Bruce Weber ones were great (Being Boring), Domino Dancing's great, thew remix of Paninaro, all the Nightlife ones. In fact - PSBs are probably the most consistently great - but the Tillmanns video for Home and Dry wasn't great (the mice).

― russ t, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Jagger and Bowie - 'Dancing In The Streets'. There's this bit right at the beginning, just after Jagger sings the opening line, where his body is spasming like he's being electrocuted... and then the camera pans left to reveal Bowie, standing on a fire escape dressed in a zebra-skin suit and dirty old man's overcoat. He is dancing with his hands in his pockets. It's hard to feel anything but sheer awe.

― Jason J, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to be predictable, but...

Tom Waits-"What's He Building..."

And for ha-ha value

Rolling Stones-It's Only Rock N Roll (But I Like It)

I guess that Chemical Brothers Michel Gondry train one is pretty impressive, too.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my fave Bjork vid is 'Bachelorette' - usual Gondry genius in full effect

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"If It Isn't Love" by New Edition.
Tracking shot pans across the boys as their choreographer (teddy riley?) instructs them on how the game has changed and New Edition needs to get ready for their comeback. What follows is a rigorous, brilliantly edited rehearsal of dance moves. Ricky Bell injures his ankle. There's a classic moment when Johnny Gill dunks his head in a water bucket and unleashes his frustration by shaking the water off of his head, spraying the amused/annoyed entourage. It's like Godard meets Fosse but very funny although perhaps not intentionally so.

Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song) directed by Spike Jonze
Everyone praises "Buddy Holly" but this is the real cinematic achievement in Weezer's videography. One continous slow motion tracking shot in a bright blue room while the group lip syncs badly while having a hell of a good time. The geek rock orgasm culminates when an army of dogs rushes the retreating camera and the band goes into full on freak out mode.

― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Gondry genius seconded (or maybe thirded), as well as all the ace Bjork-ish ones he was also behind "visual palindrome" one for Sugar Water by Cibo Matto which is scarily pretentious conceit and inevitably utterly magnificent in practice. Has he done anything noteworthy recently?

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, my dear Theodore, it's Ralph that dunketh his head. Seconded - sincerely executed genius.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Gondry has recently directed that 'ratheads' advert for Levis, last music vid he did was Kylie's 'Come Into My World' i do believe

its possible he's done the new White Stripes vid but i still havent seen that yet

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That Kylie one was amazing..... there's always room for multiple Kylies in my life! As long as she doesn't sing.
Think the new Levis ads are a bit crap to be honest.

― russ t, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Pharcyde "Drop" - spike jonze one-take video, backwards.
A-Ha "Take on Me" - classic.

― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tom Waits one indeed. For happier videos, anything by Madness would do. Also:
Echo & the Bunnymen - Seven Seas / Killing Moon
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Duran Duran - The Wild Boys
Ash - Envy (because of Charlotte in her purple dress)

― Tijn, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches captured the cut 'n' paste whimsy of sampling better than any other attempt...even better than the Wiseguys.

― Erick H (Erick H), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ash's Angel Interceptor vid had youthful Tim writhing around on his bed looking really pained and tortured and excellent; this was perennial favourite when i was 14.

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

...what's the Ash video with the nudie bits? Isn't there a shower scene with Tim in? I remember seeing some pics a while back....

― russ t, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this would be the allegedly-uber-controv Numbskull but I never got to see this. Girl From Mars had more wholesome semi-nudity, as I recall.

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Two of my favorites are on the Matador anniversary DVD:

Cat Power - "Cross Bones Style" which looks like a Gap ad, but is somehow scary, all white background, Chan rollerskates and dances like a zombie and plays a red guitar, dancers do a deadpan macarena-like dance.

And my alltime favorite, the godlike "Break Up Your Band" by Chavez, which involves a fake talk show and male strippers dressed up like a fireman, a Chinese aristocrat, a lion (with a mask), and a spaceman, who descends from the ceiling on a spaceship. The lion stripper twists his ankle and panic ensues. Chavez looks unfazed. Incredible.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It was Numbskull - there's a few clips here
http://www.ash-official.com/ash_html/discography.html

― russ t, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

yo la tengo - sugarcube (the one where they go to rawk school and the professor is sitting with the class under a tree reading lyrics of a rush record like poetry hahaha )

pavement - gold soundz (band walks near mall, finds santa outfits, then fake bows and arrows and then go hunting for a butterball turkey flying through the air and then, inside the turkey, they find car keys, then they drive to a hill, roll down it, and then drink milk!)

ODB - Got Your Money - Dolemite!

Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe - Braces!

1.8.7. - We Are Not Alone (i lived so far from any sort of dance scene and when i would see this video i would get so into the low-budget futurism)

Luke Slater- Love (life is really like that for me... the treadmill, the flashbacks, etc.)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Possible #1 - Madonna, "Don't Tell Me"

Tom Waits-"What's He Building..."

!! I have never seen this. Do tell.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhhhh i was just going to put gold soundz (you forgot the oreos!) and sugarcube (esp. the part where they have to discuss the merits of burning out or fading away).

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

gabbneb-The Tom Waits video is just a lot of fuzzy footage of suburban houses and dusty wooden floors, kind of a found footage thing. Tom isn't in it. I love it.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco 2000 by Pulp is yet another skyscraping moment in popvideo history, Pulp always got it right but this is maybe the best.

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sugarcube video is also on that Matador dvd.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

SUGARCUBE is so dense with greatness.. another favorite... the band's attempts at rocking out and also the passed note "do you like trip-hop?"

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Pearl Jam's "Do The Evolution"
Faith No More's "A Small Victory"
that 20+ minute Orbital video
White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl"
Johnny Cash's "Hurt"
Peter Gabriel's "Diggin In the Dirt"
Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

pizzicato five 'twiggy twiggy'
toto coelo 'i eat cannibals'
guns n roses 'november rain' (for slash playing guitar on a massive cliff wihout a lead or amplifier)
kraftwerk 'autobahn' (practically pink floyd)

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Broadcast 'Papercuts'
Death In Vegas 'Dirt'
Alex Gopher 'The Child'
KMPFD 'A Drug Against War'
New Order 'World'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and new order 'true faith'

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Madonna - Borderline.

In the history of music video it is simply unsurpassable in terms of sheer brilliance and vitality.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Louis Jordan - Beware, Brother, Beware

― pauls00, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"All That I Wanted" by Belfegore is the best video ever made. The only three & some odd minutes of footage that can actually induce fits of vertigo and nauseau. The band plays on a Manhattan pier, while a crowd of panic-stricken folks run from an unseen terror in an endless loop. The camera is in constant motion throughout, creating a sense of urgency and menace that seems oddly prescient, given the locale shot (lower Manhattan). It's also a fucking great song.

"Black Planet" by the Sisters of Mercy. Andrew, Craig and Wayne driving around L.A. freeway clovers in the Monkees' red covertible sports car. Andrew at the wheel, stopping by scenic nuclear power plants, while Wayne and Craig nap in hungover, smack-comedown stupors. Utter, utter majesty.

"Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo has to get a mention. Back from the golden age of video, its collage of wilfully bizarre imagery (iguana on a spit, face in a bowl of refried beans, a pinata filled with lizards) is still wildly entertaining.

"Stigmata" by Ministry. The video that made me finally appreciate this band. Gritty, black'n'white stock footage of machinery insterspliced with footage of AL Jourgensen (in then-signature flip-up spectacles) mugging for the camera, running from Paul Barker's motorcycle and -- inexplicably -- being strangled by a metal arm. Snippets of the band playing to a gaggle of sieg-heiling skinheads is another reason to be given pause. A seamless merging of sound with visual.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm the dandy highwayman that you're too scared to mention. I spend my cash on looking flash and grabbing your attention. The devil take yr stereo and yr record collection...

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone who cited "Bastards of Young" by the Replacements, incidentally, should get a pie in the face. Why? Well, for a start, it's a boringly predictable answer. Secondly, the band themselves undid any coolness of the anti-videoness of that notorious clip by making "proper" videos for their last two albums.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i am so glad you guys reminded me of that yo la tengo video. fucking hilarious. know where to download it?

also:
soundgarden: black hole sun
busta rhymes: gime some more
lanny meyers: a warm reception i l.a. (even though it's more of a short film than a video.

and cibo matto and cunningham/warp is of course OTM as well

― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Girls Girls Girls by Jay Z because he's so fucked up that he can't even mouth the proper words. It's great, he's just like mouthing "Yo, whatever, girls, blah blah", when he's even mouthing anything at all and not just staring off into space. Plus--there is a guy who is wearing a shirt emblazoned "Holla!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

the yo la videos are streamed at launch.com, whih requires signing up with yahoo but no $$$.

others:
"downtown lights" blue nile
"i got a man" positive K
"tour de france" senor coconut y su conjunto
the pumpkins videos from GISH

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"super seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" - boredoms
welcome to the million year old future... the wave crashes, the volcano erupts.

"ohio riverboat song" - the palace brothers
"hope" - dirty three
nearly still life goodness... stunning and natural... must see(s).

yo la tengo - "sugarcube"
superchunk - "watery hands"
humor has no place in music.

"goodbye to you" - scandal with patti smythe
visual distortion with those tight black and white stripes (which are soooo hot right now btw) it makes my eyes feel like they've been googled.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "Bastards of Young" by The Replacements...
*Gets hit with pie*
*Wipes and smears pie on face, then tastes it ala Alice Cooper at the Cincinnati Pop Festival in 1970*
Yummy! Any way, here's some more I like-
XTC-"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"
Guns'n'Roses-"Estranged" (dolphins in the street)
ZZ Top-"Sleeping Bag" (for all that cheesy Egyptian NASA shit)
That Spoon video with the sped-up footage of them in the studio.
Toadies-"Possum Kingdom" (from "Beavis and Butthead", when Beavis realizes that someday he will die)
plus some others. I'm not that much of a videos preson these days.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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And my alltime favorite, the godlike "Break Up Your Band" by Chavez

Seconded, and may I add that Chavez's video for "Unreal Is Here", a takeoff on every stadium-rock band's tour video ever made, is also brilliant.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - "Just"
Beastie Boys - "Fight For Your Right," "Intergalactic," and "Sabotage"
David Lee Roth - "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Fat" and "Eat It"
Spiritualized - "Do It All Over Again"
The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"
Blur - "Coffee and T.V."
The Eels - "Last Stop This Town"
Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood"
Oasis - "All Around the World"
The Pixies - "Here Comes Your Man"
The Prodigy - "Smack My Bitch Up"
Deee-Lite - "Groove Is in the Heart"

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk Talk, "It's My Life"
Daft Punk, "Da Funk"
Gus Gus, "Believe" (I think--the one with the swimmer. The album cover might be a still)
Pulp, "Bad Cover Version"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The site with the 'Black Planet' photos is here; http://www.robertwebb.com/SOM.htm for those who're interested :-)

― Paz, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

if you like animated videos ala Royksopp's awesome 'Remind Me' you should check out for the video for Legowelt's 'Disco Rout' at http:/www.lobo.cx

beautiful artwork too

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the video for Beck's "Lost Cause" is really beautiful.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sigur Ros - Untitled #1 video is quite beautiful.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything Chris Cunningham has done with Warp.

MTV2 aired "Window Licker" this weekend as part of their "Most Controversial Videos Ever" special. As creeeepy as they wanna be.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - "Just"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I always really liked the Universal by Blur, especially the point where the drunk man laughs loudly at whatever's been said to him and then stops dead and stares blankly ahead.

― Ferg (Ferg), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of aphex, the jarvis cocker-directed video for 'on' is pretty killer as well...

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"who's that girl" - the eurythmics.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

NIN - Hurt

Best use of nature footage to fuck shit up, ever.

Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet

Obviously. Not so obviously for the lack of aperture compensation when the speed ramps up on the camera, thus making the scenes look dull and dark when she goes into the soft parts.

Most any Spike Jonze video, really. 'Cepting maybe for Da Funk.

Any Liz Phair video circa The Matador Years - You see the label throwing all the money behind the sexy-indie chick...

JSBX - Talk About The Blues. Winonna!

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy is the first video I remember watching. It had guys with TVs for heads.

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonite, Tonite

Guns N' Roses - November Rain. Axl Rose dated Stephanie Seymour. And he hit her. Winner of the second annual David Justice Balls Of Steel Award.

Disco 2000 by Pulp is yet another skyscraping moment in popvideo history, Pulp always got it right but this is maybe the best.

Describe what happens.

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

...Boys Don't Cry

...Juicy, b-cuz it shows my apartment.

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"the man that you fear" -marilyn manson

― reo fordecor, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Wax "California" is my favorite video of all-time. Plus, it was shot in my hometown.

― Famous Athlete, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

jm: the Disco 2000 video is kind of all tied up with the Different Class sleeve and features BOY (man) and GIRL (lady) preparing for big night out and anticipating maybe seeing one another and eventually getting it on at the end, only far more technicolour and subtitled and ultra-stylised and ace than this implies. The band only seem to feature in cardboard cut-out form, apart from Jarvis who is permanently on the TV in the background.

Someone else will probably be able to articulate the allure of this better than I can, is worth seeking out anyway.

― alexfack (alexfack), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

All Cunningham, Gondry, Jonze stuff.
Nine Inch nails's "Closer"
Unkle's "Rabbit in your headlights"
Prodigy's "Smack my bitch up"
Some hip hop vid like the parodic "What they do" by the Roots and the erotic "Lapdance" by N*E*R*D*

― Sami (Sami), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh 'What They Do' has to be one the top 5 hip hop videos ever for classic parodying

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and:
Primus: Shake Hands With Beef

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of Bjork videos, Bowie - Blue Jean, The Bertrand Burgalat one with dancing flowers, The Golden Boy one where the one person is movie back in time and the other is movie forward, some Aphex Twin ones, and the Rem one that is just one 20 sec clip repeated.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew....off to buy more ciggies.

http://www.robertwebb.com/images/hedrives.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

just downloaded that new White Stripes video - brilliant, and TOTALLY Gondry...annoyingly he has basically done something i wanted to do and had the idea for only yesterday, but i bow down to his genius once more

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I forgot all about the "Just" video. I used to get chills watching that vid when I was a teen.

Sigur Ros has a video for whatever-they-call-track-7-on-Agaetis Birjun that's really very touching and beautiful.

And I swear you could make an entire tape/DVDR of Bjork & Busta Rhymes videos and be thoroughly pleased until the end of your days.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Missy Elliot - "Sock It 2 Me" : Megaman! Lil' Kim as Zero! some of the best dancers ever!

2Pac ft Dre - "California Love" : Mad Max stylee. Dre has an eyepatch!

Kelis - "Get Along With You" : Visually, a Tim Burton/Tool hybrid (thankfully not aurally, haha).

Outkast - "B.O.B." - here comes everything! sheer madness! & was it "Rosa Parks" which had that mentalistic marching band?

(lots of love for Gondry, "Remind Me", etc etc. I've heard a lot of good things about the video/short film for Flowered Up's "Weekender" - anyone seen it?)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh 'Weekender' is very good all in all - an epic piece directed by 'Wiz', captured the whole 'domestic tedium/going out/loved up/coming down' thing quite succinctly, with some wry humourous touches and not taking itself too seriously

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm a big fan of music video, esp. when the format is used creatively. if i had to OPX i could watch over and over, i'd go with these. some real works of art here.

His Name is Alive "Can't Go Wrong Without You"
Tall Dwarfs "Turning Brown & Torn in Two"
Bad Religion "Atomic Garden"
Medicine "5ive"
Super Furry Animals "It's Not the End of the World"
Blur "Coffee & TV"
Yo La Tengo "Sugarcube"
R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"
Johnny Cash "Hurt"
Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist"

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Very little Madonna on this thread surprisingly - surely the forerunner of music video fabulousness...

my faves by her....
Erotica, Bedtime Story, Frozen, Justify my love.

― russ t, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i like Vogue, all that glorified air stewarding

Like A Prayer is classic - oooh the 'black jesus with madonna as naughty repenting sex kitten' controversy...

Ray Of Light is a nice piece of time-lapsing work

and Cherish, rolling around on the beach in black and white - a bit 'Calvin Klein advert' but pretty cool

satisfied Russ?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw the video for Radiohead - Just, and I'm probably being really obvious and totally missing the point, but I don't care.... what did he say at the end?

― David Allen, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

dont forget "deeper and deeper" with the weird german expressionist vibe in the beginning and the afro and the guy pulling faces the hippie guys stripping for madonna's friends and the balloon. lurv it!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck yes "deeper and deeper'" featuring the immortal Udo Kier

my favorite 90's madonna video hands down.

i don't watch too much tv anymore so it's just not for me to say, but Gondry's done his share. Daft Punk's 'Around The World' just makes me happy at the end of the day.

― milton, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Also one of the best. It's very rare for Madonna to make a bad video.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

on a local(NZ) tip, Fish'n'Clips (in particular, Chris Graham's stuff) have been really good (& on a tight budget) :
Trinity Roots' "Little Things" (history flickering in an old man's eye - tremulously overwhelming; affirmation)
Rhombus - "Clav Dub" (loving, fun, cameo-filled Goodbye Pork Pie homage)
P-Money ft Scribe - "Remember" (memory, friendship & desire, + the most heartbreakingly accurate facial expressions evah from Scribe)
King Kapisi - "U Can't Resist Us" (sheep-farmers pretending they're hip-hop stars! OH THE IRONY/JUXTAPOSITION/etc, but in a good way)

Black Seeds - "Hey Son" & "Keep On Pushing" (post-Peter Jackson gonzoid kiwi pulp excess)
Dubious Bros ft DJ Sir-Vere - "Rage" ((ph)atmospheric)
Salmonella Dub - "Problems" (gorgeously animated. babylon inna desert stylee - bad peyote, voodoo majik, military industrial complex, & rebirth)
Salmonella Dub - "Push On Thru" (tussock, ice - mind vs landscape FITE)
Jakob - "Nice Day For An Earthquake" (see above)
Che Fu - "Top Floor" (featuring Che Fu knitting himself a sock, a NZ On Air cake, & tea for everyone - it's the little things, etc)
King Kapisi - "Sub-Cranium Feeling" (an even better use of water/surfaces than Josh Wink's "Higher State Of Consciousness", & in such a summery, looming manner)
Goodshirt - "Blowing Dirt" (backwards tracking sort of like the Pharcyde's "Drop", except with a static camera, & involving the band utterly WASTING a mini. + wetsuits & balloons)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 20 April 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

2Pac ft Dre - "California Love" : Mad Max stylee. Dre has an eyepatch!

this is one of the worst videos ever

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 20 April 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life
Radiohead - Street Spirit

― Jonathan, Sunday, 20 April 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Snoop Dogg - "Gin'n'Juice" (BEST.PARTY.VIDEO.EVAH! & on that note, which was the Luda video that ended up with everyone partying it up in his treehouse?)

Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era - "Far Out" (feel the viiibe - low-budget enthusiastic ardkore fun - the group & their mates dancing like mentalists & having fun; & doing that whole psychedelic-on-a-shoestring thing - did this come out at vaguely the same time as "I Am One" & "Groove Is In The Heart"? & can anyone tell me which one was Danny Breaks? & are any other rave/ardkore videos worth hunting down? the only other one I've seen is the Prodigy's "Out Of Space" - emus!) (& the KLF's "What Time Is Love?" is also k-grebt)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 20 April 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the guns 'n' roses' use your illusion videos were atrocious. they are what happens when white-trashniks and junkies watch too many Peter Gabriel videos.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 20 April 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

and oh, yeah -- "we can dance if we want to!" it has a comely lass, a dancing dwarf, a spazz lead singer, and serfs running around maypoles. what more do you people want from life!?!?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 20 April 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a great mx-80 video where they were holding flashlights. what was that called?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it came out late '91/early '92, quite a while after Deee-Lite. Danny Breaks is the prominent white guy with the cropped hair, i can't remember what he's wearing tho.

other great 'ardkore/rave videos' for their low budget excellence:

Prodigy 'Everybody In The Place'
Altern 8 'Evapor-8'
Sy-Kick 'Nasty'
House Crew 'The Theme'
Urban Hype 'A Trip To Trumpton'
Acen 'Trip II The Moon'
Moby 'Bring Back My Happiness'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 20 April 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

my favorite video is the one from the late-80s where everybody keeps jumping out of suitcases.

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 20 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

k-thanks for the recommendations, stevem ("Trip II The Moon" had a video? My mind is already blown . . .).

just remembered!

Justin Timberlake - "Cry Me A River" (I could write an essay on this. Perfect perfect perfect.)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Thursday, 24 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

At this exact second in time, it is "Antmusic" --that huge plug they keep yanking!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 25 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.happycheesecake.com/images/antanim.gif

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 25 May 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Feeder's video for Just A Day which is made up of home videos made by fans for the song is the best thing I've ever seen.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

By 1986, Genesis were long since way over the hill musically. Yet, they managed to come up with one of the greatest videos ever. I think "Land Of Confusion" is still my favourite.

Love "Sledgehammer" too.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i have mixed feelings about 10,000 maniacs and natalie merchant, but the "peace train" video was on vh1 classic last week and i think i'm in lurve. it's an object lesson in how to make your low-budget video look smartly understated rather than just cheap and bare-bones.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yet, they managed to come up with one of the greatest videos ever. I think "Land Of Confusion" is still my favourite.

You cannot be serious.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I bought the Warp Videos 1989-2004 yesterday, generally recommend this for most of the videos on there. Autechre's 'Gantz Graf' is just amazing.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

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