# Best Music Video Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619 "2015-04-14T04:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/61 "2015-04-16T01:18:24Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > [Nobody’s mentioned this one yet?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) NoScript kept me from having to listen to this at all, but you should be very, very ashamed. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The Replacements, “Bastards of Young.” > > [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q) Damn, that is a good understated one. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/62 "2015-04-16T15:35:48Z")
Robert Palmer’s [Addicted to Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE). Silly I know, but I just love the way those women look and move. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/63 "2015-04-16T16:26:58Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Being born in 1970 and like a lot of dopers here I was part of the MTV generation and my entire teens were the 80s. The one video that makes me reminisce for that time is David Lee Roth’s [Just a Gigalo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXjBWN8LO8) which is an entire satire of 80s videos complete with the music video censorship debate of the times. OMG, I loved that video when it first came out! Another one of a similar ilk is Phil Collins’ “Billy Don’t Lose That Number”, which is a parody of all the 80s music video genres. My picks (no links, I’m lazy): A-ha, Take on Me anything by Michael Jackson for dance videos, Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” Tom Petty, “Don’t Come Around Here No More” for a later one, No Doubt’s version of “It’s My Life”. Very compelling when paired with the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/64 "2015-04-18T01:29:23Z")
I’ve nominated my choice for best, but here are some fun ones that deserve some love: [Eels - Last Stop This Town](https://youtu.be/0TfqbuTBqX8) [Beastie Boys - Sabotage](https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE) [Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass](https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w) [Coldplay - Strawberry Swing](https://youtu.be/h3pJZSTQqIg) [Pink - So What](https://youtu.be/FJfFZqTlWrQ) [Mumford & Sons - Hopeless Wanderer](https://youtu.be/rId6PKlDXeU) [All American Rejects - Gives You Hell](https://youtu.be/uxUATkpMQ8A) (This version has an alternate ending - I can’t find the original that I first saw). ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/65 "2015-04-18T01:53:32Z")
The video that epitomizes the MTV era to me is [Money for Nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag) - great(?) 1980’s animation, a really good song and the great final line: Sting’s line “I want my MTV” echoing the line “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” from The Police. Plus a little controversial on top of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/66 "2015-04-18T02:42:58Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > The video that epitomizes the MTV era to me is [Money for Nothing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag) - great(?) 1980’s animation, a really good song and the great final line: Sting’s line “I want my MTV” echoing the line “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” from The Police. Plus a little controversial on top of it all. All great suggestions and these opinions have expanded my musical experience, taken me back to the days of my youth and realizing I missed out on a LOT of good stuff. Just a question about controversy in the Dire Straights video. How would one find the name of the woman/actress in that video, and was that the “scandal” you were referring to? Seems pretty tame to me. Maybe I am just jaded. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/67 "2015-04-18T02:57:30Z")
I nominate [Grace Potter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8uT8DTvlw) The Lion, The Beast, The Beat ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/68 "2015-04-18T04:19:18Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > All great suggestions and these opinions have expanded my musical experience, taken me back to the days of my youth and realizing I missed out on a LOT of good stuff. > Just a question about controversy in the Dire Straights video. > How would one find the name of the woman/actress in that video, and was that the “scandal” you were referring to? > Seems pretty tame to me. Maybe I am just jaded. There’s a stanza that includes the word “faggot” that gets censored or cut from many versions. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/69 "2015-04-18T04:23:37Z")
[Old skool - sit down Waldo.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LetJHQ_V05o) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/70 "2015-04-18T04:33:12Z")
Pearl Jam - [Jeremy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA) Fiona Apple - [Across the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXE1C--WezU) R.E.M. - [Imitation of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqgdSsfqPs) TLC - [Creep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZydtG3xqI) Blind Melon - [No Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58) ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/71 "2015-04-18T04:40:29Z")
OK Go: A Million Ways [http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1\_CLW-NNwc&ob=av2e](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_CLW-NNwc&ob=av2e) or maybe better their Here It Goes Again. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA&list=RD3BxfpbyV-uc&index=2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA&list=RD3BxfpbyV-uc&index=2) Not for music but for concept there is R.Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECE98856B07CD52](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECE98856B07CD52) ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/72 "2015-04-18T13:47:53Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > There’s a stanza that includes the word “faggot” that gets censored or cut from many versions. Thanks. I never knew or realized that. Ignorance fought and conquered! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/73 "2015-04-18T18:52:41Z")
As spooky, animated music videos go, [Tooll’s “Sober”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8) was always memorable, for me. For a peppier, more modern one, there’s [“I Have Your Heart,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06dAqSFn1lk) by Kim Boekbinder. ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/74 "2015-04-19T05:30:49Z")
Why am I here? Who me a wait 'pon? [Spaced Invader](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZHZpAtKGYM) ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619/75 "2015-04-19T17:36:41Z")
> [@MsKaren](#): > > OK Go: A Million Ways [http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1\_CLW-NNwc&ob=av2e](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_CLW-NNwc&ob=av2e) or maybe better their Here It Goes Again. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA&list=RD3BxfpbyV-uc&index=2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA&list=RD3BxfpbyV-uc&index=2) > > Not for music but for concept there is R.Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECE98856B07CD52](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECE98856B07CD52) OK Go just seems to have so much fun with these, and just keep upping the stakes: [I Won’t Let You Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-video-ever/717619.md?page=3)