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11-24-1999, 04:30 PM
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I felt like putting a topic up here that could have a lot of different opinions, so this one came to my mind. Personally, I have these:
Korn-Freak on a Leash: One of the best videos I've ever seen, with the bullet effects and the lighting job, integrating animation. Prodigy-Breathe: This video almost scared me. However, I thought it was great in the way that it basically went along with the mood of the song. ------------------ People are stupid. That's all that ever needs to be said. 
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#2
11-24-1999, 04:31 PM
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About the Freak on a Leash vid: I don't know if this was on purpose, but they have a chain link fence with a sign on it in the animated section. It looks oddly like one near the beginning of Citizen Kane...
------------------ Question authority--just not mine.
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#4
11-24-1999, 04:40 PM
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Second the Tool videos.
Videos should enhance the experience, not show the band jumping around lipsynching. ------------------ Hell is Other People.
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#5
11-24-1999, 04:43 PM
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Buddy Holly- Weezer
all Tool videos Too young to fall in love-Motley Crue fighting kung fu style in china town. money for nothing-dire straights (did all the toy story bandwaggoners forget about this?) ------------------ We live in an age that reads to much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful--Oscar Wilde
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#6
11-24-1999, 04:52 PM
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All peter Gabriel videos (esp. Sledgehammer)
All Genesis videos (esp. Land of Confusion) Van Halen - Right Now leppard - lets get rocked U2-please (the backdrop of please merging into a yellow background blew me away) Veera. - Message not scanned for typos.
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#7
11-24-1999, 05:42 PM
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I'll second most of the above.
One I'd like to add: Beasty Boys - Sabotage ------------------ Coldfire ________________________________ "You know how complex women are" - Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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#8
11-24-1999, 05:50 PM
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An oldie but goodie...
"Big Log" by Robert Plant ------------------ Mr. K's Link of the Month: Punch Bill Gates
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#9
11-24-1999, 05:52 PM
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REM's Losing My Religion was good-- it was like multiple stills or tableau vivant of old master paintings.
When I was in 6th grade or so I saw the very old video to Bowie's Ashes to Ashes and I thought that was the strangest thing I had ever seen. I'm not a Madonna fan but I study renaissance art so i'm into odd liturgical issues and creepy religious stuff so Like A Prayer was neat. Has anyone seen the Psychic TV videos floating around? Very very strange.
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#10
11-24-1999, 05:57 PM
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I agree that most of the older videos are better than some of the new stuff. I mean, acts like the Backstreet Boys..their entire videos are made up of just dancing. The further you go back in music video history, the more videos you see that actually relate to the song. I always appreciate that. I think that's what videos were made for.
I second the vote for "Sabotage." ------------------ People are stupid. That's all that ever needs to be said.
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#12
11-24-1999, 07:09 PM
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Mr. Knowit all's fave "Big Log"...That song came out when I first moved to rural Nevada (Tonopah, to be exact...anybody been there?)
I heard it a lot when I was driving from Toledo, OH to Nevada and the video actually looks like rural Nevada..Desert Area, gas station out in the middle of nowhere.. One of my favorites is Madonna's "Material Girl"...I like how she sings about how she loves money and things and ends up with a cowboy with a bunch of daisies and a pickup truck. ------------------ --Gail "Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place." --John Cleese
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#13
11-24-1999, 07:21 PM
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Fleetwood Mac did a great video that recreated 'The Highwayman' poem. Can't remember which song it was for...
------------------ -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! The Legend Of PigeonMan - updates every Wed & Sat
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#14
11-24-1999, 10:50 PM
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Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam
It was done by MacFarlane Studios who did the Korn's Freak on a Leash video. Only a few have seen it and it rips the gills out of Freaka on a Leash. THe song rocks and the video is perfect aas it flys through history showing Humanities "evolution" through its barbaricacy. Makes you pause and think about the meaning of both the song and video ------------------ I know that I have put you through hell, and I know that I have been one rough pecker. But from here on, you are all in my cool book.- Seth Gecko From Dusk Till Dawn
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#15
11-24-1999, 11:40 PM
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More that come to my mind are the recent Foo Fighters videos. I enjoy the amusing storylines, and I think that Dave Grohl dressing up like a woman in each of them is strange...humorous, but strange nonetheless...Everlong is one of those videos that comes to my mind. Great song, good video.
------------------ People are stupid. That's all that ever needs to be said.
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#18
11-25-1999, 12:43 AM
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I liked one that was not shown very often,called Dead Ringer For Love by Meatloaf.
------------------ if you can read this,you are too close
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#19
11-25-1999, 12:50 AM
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Most every video always failed to impress me.
That said, "Thriller" was pretty much a MOVIE, and you gota give props to Wacko Jacko for being an innovator of this artform and employing some mighty talented people behind him for this and some of his other clips. The Foo Fighters seem to always make good, funny videos. I appreciated the artistry behind such '80s fare as The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" and the silliness of Cyndee Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." "One," by Metallica, was scary and I enjoyed playing it for family members to see the reaction. Made me rent the movie that it lifted scened from. Anything by Weird Al makes me laugh... ------------------ Yer pal, Satan
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#20
11-25-1999, 01:18 AM
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I loved many videos in the early days but am not much impressed with the dark, ugly, near-pornographic videos now. Gettin' old, I am, but the quick cut, cut, cut style is unimaginative and annoying (and dated; it was old by '84.)
For me the all-time best, purely for fitting the song so well, was Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang." Very simple, and dead-on perfect for the song. Catrandom
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#21
11-25-1999, 02:54 AM
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November Rain - Guns N' Roses
it has a great story and the video fits the song perfectly wow! ------------------ Chief's Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi
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#22
11-25-1999, 07:35 AM
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I hate to admit it, but I love the "Vogue" video by Madonna. It's like browsing through an Annie Leibovitz book...
And I still enjoy the "Beat It" video by Michael Jackson. He may be a freak of nature, but that boy can dance.
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#23
11-25-1999, 10:09 AM
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"Everybody Hurts" - R.E.M.
Most of the Guns N' Roses videos were great. I especially liked "November Rain" and "Don't Cry". Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing" and "Brothers in Arms" A-Ha had some pretty cool videos - "Take on Me"
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#24
11-25-1999, 10:26 AM
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I'm so old fashioned... I think my favorite video is still "Take on Me" by A-Ha
Running up are Siouxie and the Banshees "Face to Face" (Batman Returns soundtrack) "Mea Culpa" by Enigma and some other that I won't remember til later on account of I just woke up. ------------------ -- O p a l C a t www.opalcat.com
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#25
11-25-1999, 10:57 AM
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Oh yeah..."Thriller" brings back some memories. I was expecting there to be closing credits to that music video.
I don't think music will ever be the same as it used to be, with Weird Al putting out parodies on the popular songs. He does a great job of that, and I'm in agreement with a lot of you. Everything he does makes me laugh. ------------------ People are stupid. That's all that ever needs to be said.
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#26
11-25-1999, 11:01 AM
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My two favourites are Radiohead's "Street Spirit", which is just beautiful, and New Order's "True Faith". You just have to love a video where two guys keep slapping each other in sync with the music throughout the video. Not to mention the punching bag woman that does the lyrics in sign language.
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#28
11-25-1999, 11:25 AM
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My top 10 in no particular order:
1. Boys of summer Don Henley 2. Metro Berlin 3. State of the Nation Industry 4. New yeras Day U2 5. Phantom Menace Weird Al 6. If anyone Falls Stevie Nicks 7. Sonny Came Home Shawn Colvin 8. Pressure Billy Joel 9. Pump up the Volume Maars 10. If you had my Love Jennifer Lopez
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#29
11-25-1999, 11:46 AM
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Icerigger..*sighs* Jennifer Lopez.
I also enjoy the videos where it doesn't have any particular storyline involved. It's just the energy of the band. I just recently saw the new RATM video for "Guerilla Radio." That's a pretty good video. It does have storyline, but it shows a lot of emotion, too. I also recently saw the new KoRn video for "Falling Away From Me." The directing job on it was pretty good, the message sent was positive, and the energy was classic KoRn. ------------------ People are stupid. That's all that ever needs to be said.
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#30
11-25-1999, 05:58 PM
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Icerigger - explain to me why Boys Of Summer (which was the big time winner on the first MTV Video Awards I think) is your favourite?
Because I don't get it. He's just in the back of a car driving through town, mix through to a couple on the beach. In B&W. It's totally nothing to me. ------------------ -PIGEONMAN- Hero For A New Millennium! The Legend Of PigeonMan - updates every Wed & Sat. If I can be bothered.
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#31
11-25-1999, 07:01 PM
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GUANOLAD--
As for boys of summer, I don't like it for Don Henley but for the impression the images gave me. I see the man at the desk with his papers and liquor cart as a man successful in business and wealthy, powerful but empty. I see the couple on the beach as him with his lost love, he is very unhappy with his life and would give it up just to be on that beach with her again. I find the video as a very sad story about lost love.
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#32
11-25-1999, 10:30 PM
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Shania Twain: Man, I Feel Like a Woman. Go ahead, flame away, but I stand, uhm, firmly, by my choice. I can watch that video over, and over, and over again. Much to my better half's chagrin. She'll get over it. I hope.
------------------ Jeremy.... Anyone who says they don't like children obviously isn't cooking them properly.
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#33
11-25-1999, 10:31 PM
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Ahh...I live for music videos with a message, especially those dealing with love. Right now, I'm in love, so whatever has to do with love hits close to home. Even those with loves past hit home. I had to search far and wide before I found my treasure.
------------------ The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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#34
11-26-1999, 05:35 AM
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Most of mine have been mentioned, so I'll skip the repetition. However, I do love "Push" by Matchbox 20. The colors, angles, props and facial expressions by everyone are wonderful, and go along with the song very well.
If he also didn't direct all those Backstreet Boys/Britney Spears videos, Nigel Dick would be my personal god. -Lanna
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#35
11-26-1999, 01:59 PM
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Anyone here ever see Let Forever Be by Chemical Brothers? It's the song on their new album with vocals by Noel Gallagher.
Anyway, I've only seen it played twice, both times late at night. One of the coolest videos I've ever seen. Very trippy. The new Gap commericial that has "Ice Ice Baby" playing and has people merging into one another is basically a ripoff of the C. Bros. video. ------------------ Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
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#36
11-26-1999, 03:21 PM
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Stevie, yeah, I actually have seen that video. The reason that video hasn't been previously mentioned by me is that MTV hasn't played it in a while. I was awed by the effects used in that. I told my friends about that, and oddly enough, they haven't seen it. That particular video didn't get a lot of playing time..however, in my mind, anything by one of the Gallagher brothers has to be good :-)
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#37
11-27-1999, 08:47 AM
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#39
11-27-1999, 06:09 PM
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For the most part, I agree with that statement. It was a long video. You have to remember, however, that the song itself was long and drawn out. I don't enjoy rock bands coming out with a power ballad to show off their "soft side" once in their careers (ex. Aerosmith). It's a bug that I don't like to bite, and it has bitten some of the best. Even with this, though, "November Rain" was a decent ballad song. I just hope that "ballad bug" doesn't really bite any other noteworthy bands soon...
------------------ The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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#40
11-27-1999, 06:39 PM
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"Let Forever Be" - Chemical Brothers
(best use of 'melding' a la Gap ads) "Coffee and TV" - Blur (it's nice, I guess) "Kelly Watch The Stars" - Air (table tennis. French.) "Bittersweet Symphony" (mad bloke lead singer walks down street) ------------------ [ X marks the spot ]
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#41
11-27-1999, 11:37 PM
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I don't remember the name of the band or song, but it kept spinning, and spinning, and spinning at different angles. At one point I think it started spinning in the opposite direction. That was a trip and a half.
------------------ White Wolf "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
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#42
11-28-1999, 11:14 PM
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Has anybody seen the new KoRn video "Falling Away From Me?" Fred Durst did a pretty good job of directing that one. He seems to be a director who really doesn't go for the drawn out ones, or the ones with loads of special effects. Fred just gets the job done, and I think it's evident in this video. Well done, Fred.
------------------ The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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#44
11-29-1999, 11:06 AM
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Where (when) do you all see these videos? Whenever I turn on MTV or VH1, they're showing gameshows, or rockumentories or movies or pretty much everything but music videos.
I thought they started VH1 because MTV was so full of other crap they didn't have time to play actual music videos anymore. Well now VH1 is full of not-music-videos also. I guess they'll be rolling out VH2 any day now. ------------------ It is too clear, and so it is hard to see.
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#45
11-29-1999, 11:34 AM
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SunsetLightning I love that Foo Fighters video for Learn to Fly. Is there more than one that they dress up like women in?
Satan - is the Metallica video you're talking about the one that's taken from Johnny Get Your Gun... or something like that? That's so close, but not quite it. Weird book, weird movie, weird Metallica video. Stevie Rave On, you named my all time favorite, Chemical Brothers' Let Forever Be. I've seen it only three times but WOW what a video. MTV's website had part of it available for viewing... let's see if it's still there... Here it is: Let Forever Be My faves: Blink 182's All the Small Things - It's priceless, the way they make fun of other videos... especially at the end when the lead singer winks at the camera, it pulls back and he's on the toilet! LEN's Steal My Sunshine - When I first saw it, I thought that the guy and girl were a couple - they just hug each other and joke around... thought they were cute. A few days later, I found out a few days later that they're brother and sister. Even cooler. Made me miss my brother. Bif Naked's Moment of Weakness - What a cool way to let a guy know what a jerk he is... Show up at his office and sing him a thrashin' song. She's my hero. ZenBeam, I watch videos first thing in the morning while doing crunches. ------------------ It is much easier to see ourselves as better than or even worse than, rather than accepting that we simply are. - John "The Penguin" Bingham
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#46
11-29-1999, 02:36 PM
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I've only seen a couple Foo Fighters videos, but the ones I've seen have been awesome. Monkey Wrench had the whole band cloned and looking at themselves through a window in a door. Everlong had Dave Grohl dressed up again. I love that video! I don't recall any other videos right now, but that's only because I'm not in the best thinking mood. By the way, All the Small Things is a great video.
------------------ The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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#47
11-29-1999, 04:03 PM
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Mock me if you will, but one of the best recent videos I've seen was Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". So far, I've seen it twice, and I was impressed that MTV was willing to show it unedited.
If you've seen it, you know what I mean....
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#48
11-29-1999, 04:24 PM
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I only saw it once and I don't remember the title or even how the song went, but it was by the Replacements. It's a shot of an upstairs window, someone puts a speaker on the ledge, and the song starts and that's the whole video: the shot of this speaker in the window.
------------------ I could never sleep my way to the top/'cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up.
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#49
11-29-1999, 04:40 PM
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Anybody who's seen the unedited version of Smack My Bitch Up needs to tell me how it was. I've heard interesting things about it..many interesting things..and the song was pretty sweet, so I'd like to know.
------------------ The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
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