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I know we've had a "Best Videos" thread, but I'm not certain we've got a thread just devoted to discussing the videos that are flashing across the screens of ILM's MTV watchers, be they excellent or abominable (the videos, not the watchers). If this is a repeat then the Moderators may delete at will, otherwise I'd like this to be a rather regularly updated rolling thread.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The last videos I saw...were last night on the Residents' _Icky Flix_ compilation, which I ended up randomly getting for review. Engagingly warped.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To start things off, has anyone witnessed Missy's "One Minute Man" video which contains a somewhat disturbing sequence in which we see Ludacris attending to two women, both placed in gently-swaying cradles. Ludacris even squirts milk from a baby bottle onto one of their chests. Unusually Freudian, methinks. If you do find this somewhat offensive, then imagine Missy placed in Ludacris's role and the women replaced by men. Would this be an image of a sexually- empowered women, as opposed to Ludacris's arguably demeaning and degrading fantasy show?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[grammar]: 2nd last-line, women=woman

― The Mitchfox, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I saw the new New Order video last night. It's a gas! Features a young bunch of indie stereotype kids fronted by a young Bobby Gillespie lookalike (or *is* it Bobby Gillespie - I could look very foolish here) pulling off shameless histrionics as they 'play' the track on stage. Eerie and hilarious at the same time. Why has no one ever thought of getting a bunch of other people to mime a performance before - it's genius!

At the end, the real New Order (I think - it's all a bit hard to see) jump onto the stage and wrestle the instruments from the young pretenders.

The song itself sounded pretty good, and features a classic lame Barney rhyme at one point (I'm afraid I can't remember what it was now).

Has anyone else seen it yet?

― Nick, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order's videos always are good, though aren't they? Remember Touched by the Hand of God where the band are dressed up like a big- hair hard rock band? Or Ruined in a Day when they're in the cave playing charades with the monks? Or Blue Monday 88 with Fay the Weimaraner dog?

― MarkH, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

Oh my. Has anybody seen/heard the new Fun Lovin'Criminals (aaarrrggghh!) single? Central lyric: "Met the finest girl of my life at Gay Night/At Gay Night". Oh no.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

Anybody have any thoughts on the "Knives Out" video?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick Sez: "Why has no one ever thought of getting a bunch of other people to mime a performance before - it's genius! "

I Sez: Someone did. That someone is Blues Traveler.

― JM, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead doing zany slapstick, what's up with that? And it looks very weird. I think they've done something more complex than just speeding up the film, like shuffling the frames or something.

― Graham, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

the scarface video for "my block" is great! and nuanced.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"Or Blue Monday 88 with Fay the Weimaraner dog? "

Wasn't that for "Fine Time"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't seen "Fine Time", but "Blue Monday 88" definitely featured the Man Ray dog in all sorts of adorable poses.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Favorite video I've seen since getting VH1 classic: Dio, "Rainbow in the Dark". "We will chase off a greasy scary Aqualung stalker with GUITAR POWER! Also rokkin the moon boots." Ronnie James looks bored out of his fucking mind half the time, too.

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm dying to see the new Lemon Jelly video - has anyone seen it on TV?

also, is anyone else here aware of how ace the video for Broadcast's 'Papercuts' is?

― blueski, Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

NB!! I.D. THIS VID: i just saw like 10 seconds of this hiphop video before it got cut off when the next show started: it had the most amazingly HARD beats i've ever heard! at first i thought it was a "grindin" remix cos in my head this is what "grinding" sounded like before i actually heard it, and i'm like 80% sure i saw pharrel williams standing there. but i've just watched a low quality version of the videos for "grindin" and "when the last time" and it's not those. what i saw: in time to the HARD HARD beats, a guy smashing a water cooler and a cop banging his nightstick on an apt door. that's pretty much all i got in the short time. please please please tell me this wasnt just one of those segue clips that the music shows make themselves.

also: why did they take the sitars out of tweet's "call me" for the single? i mean that's like the whole point!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i still wanna know

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 4 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Sez: "Why has no one ever thought of getting a bunch of other people to mime a performance before - it's genius! "

I Sez: Someone did. That someone is Blues Traveler.

The Cure did it too (first?) via the kiddie stand-ins in Boys Don't Cry.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched some videos today and was becoming very irate indeed. It's that 'lets shake the camera around all earthquake style to show how HARD this song is rocking' production trick, which is fine if the song, you know, actually is kind of hard. But I'm seeing it used on songs where it totally doesn't work - like Pink's new one. The song isn't kicking half as much ass as you'd imagine it to be sans audio.

And especially for the other Canadians, I'll give up the worst offender - 'Wide Mouth Mason'.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"nothin" is definitely rockin enough to use it, "just like a pill" has tiny hidden bell things in it that aren't rockin but prick up my ears every time, and i know nothing (happily, perhaps) of this "wide mouth mason".

(at least) one more try: anyone got any ideas what video i'm talking about above?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

('just like a pill' was the one I meant)

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i hate the split second rewind effect that i've seen in three or four videos in the past month. but i can't think of any of them at the moment and don't know if they were even new videos.

i *love* the brushing the dandruff off your shoulder dance move li'l bow wow does in that 'take ya home' video. brilliant. i saw it all over in some queen latifah video last week too, i think.

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 6 October 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry to be one of *those* people, but the best thing about Tivo is being able to record huge blocks of music videos and zip through three hours in fifteen minutes. So in my latest three hours I saw:

The video to Nirvana's "You Know You're Right" (three times in three hours)...very depressing because it's so poorly done.
Missy Elliot "Work It"...fun, but not as fun as you expect, but she does do this great thing at the "call before you come" part that they have to blur out. Oh, and she's lost a few pounds in her waist for ya.
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Zephyr Song"...the best surprise. I like this song already, but the video is Classic. Psychedelic in a lo-fi, early-days-of-video way, with kaleidescope effects and split-screen action a la the last half of "When Doves Cry."
Pink "Family Portrait"...there's a little girl that lip-synchs most of Pink's vocals in this video, and she's really good. Not too sad or cute, but very real, great eyes.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Colin Newman - "B"
see: http://www.homestead.com/thiefoffire

and credit for the link is due this man: Jason
http://www.perfectsoundforever.com

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 18 October 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

Why didn't people keep posting to this thread? Mitch had a good idea here.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my. Has anybody seen/heard the new Fun Lovin'Criminals (aaarrrggghh!) single? Central lyric: "Met the finest girl of my life at Gay Night/At Gay Night". Oh no.

After the Electric Six I can only assume FLC are wondering where it all went wrong, man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i've had mtv for a month now and have not yet seen a video. when are they aired?

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hope it isn't when kudlow and cramer is on.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i've had mtv for a month now and have not yet seen a video. when are they aired?

That'd be M2.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 15 September 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i was just thinking this morning that ilx overrated the "there there" video. i like what shynola did for "house of jealous lovers" (amongst the "hot hot heat" and "lcd soundsystem" etc scenester namechecking in the video, i caught a "roland barthe"). i hope the next vid goes shiny and daftpunky like the album cover.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

seen the 'go to sleep' video? pretty cool - it's by Alex Rutterford (Amon Tobin 'Verbal', Autechre 'Gantz Graf' too i think) - deliberately shoddy CGI figures walk around while buildings collapse

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 September 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Ok yeah so:

PUSH THE BUTTON WTF, whose idea was the dandy Chris Morris and also can we talk about what is even meant to be going on with Heidi's boy seriously. This is amazing, I have no idea what the symbolism is even trying to do here.

Madonna hungup leotard why why and also the bit before the break is so jawdroppingly amazing in the clip, how did they do that? It comes in really soft an disappointing though after :(

Everything else seems to sort of make sense.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

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