# Can you suggest some visually creative music videos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940 "2011-06-18T15:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crab007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@Crab007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab007)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/1 "2011-06-18T15:29:51Z")
Something like this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSxxIqKNN0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSxxIqKNN0) I need to fill up the mobile with some interesting stuff for the long trips. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/2 "2011-06-18T16:04:39Z")
I have this collection by [Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry](http://www.amazon.com/Directors-Label-Boxed-Set-Cunningham/dp/B00065AXTM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1308412884&sr=8-2). There’s some amazing stuff in there. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/3 "2011-06-18T16:23:31Z")
The original visually creative music video is [Take On Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914). It’s a little dated now, but it’s worth a watch. [Such Great Heights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg) is also pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/4 "2011-06-18T16:27:53Z")
[Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0) always comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/5 "2011-06-18T17:27:00Z")
[Virtual Insanity](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE) by Jamiroquai, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/6 "2011-06-18T17:28:52Z")
(Second try…control and shift are too damn close to each other…) Since I can never pass up a chance to pimp my girl Tommy…a bit of linkspam, yay! [Tommy february6 - MaGic in youR Eyes](http://youtu.be/JAZ9W6fbkyA) [Tommy february6 - Bloomin’!](http://youtu.be/ZN4VhdE3LV8) [Tommy heavenly6 - Wait 'Till I Can Dream](http://youtu.be/sOSM1vBj0c4) [Tommy heavenly6 - +gothic pink+](http://youtu.be/sDHOqsCNADk) [Tommy heavenly6 - Heavy Starry Chain](http://youtu.be/CdIAeb1ZbLI) (Would have stuck to two, like I did with Tommy february6, but I felt I should include the changeover between the two personae, and couldn’t chose between ‘generaly atmospheric’ and ‘Snow White meets some vampires’…) There are a few more standard videos under both those names, but also many more wonderfully out there videos… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/7 "2011-06-18T17:30:42Z")
Start from the foundation: [“Cry,” by Godley & Creme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/8 "2011-06-18T17:46:25Z")
Oh, and you can’t go wrong with [Buddy Holly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F82EiIByqY&feature=related) or [Keep Fishing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIsYA1QDuk) by Weezer, and OK Go’s [Here It Goes Again](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/9 "2011-06-18T18:06:23Z")
Offspring - [The Kids Aren’t Allright](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZ4sMRYimw) ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/10 "2011-06-18T18:35:08Z")
I see Michel Gondry has already been mentioned, he is a kind of visual savant. This [early effort](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kocw7bcdc0) is particularly good. Not sure about the music (I don’t hate it), but I love the visuals. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/11 "2011-06-18T18:45:36Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > I have this collection by [Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry](http://www.amazon.com/Directors-Label-Boxed-Set-Cunningham/dp/B00065AXTM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1308412884&sr=8-2). There’s some amazing stuff in there. This was the exact DVD collection I immediately thought of. It’s the epitome of the OP, and well worth the money! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/12 "2011-06-19T00:12:31Z")
Cibo Matto [“Sugar Water”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9auBn6Jys) and [“Know Your Chicken”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMWwwv_MTk&feature=relmfu). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/13 "2011-06-19T00:21:08Z")
**OK Go!'s** video for [“This Too Shall Pass”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w) is an amazing, one-take rube-goldberg style theatrics to hit beats perfectly in the song. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/14 "2011-06-19T00:37:39Z")
Wow, also [End Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw&NR=1) is amazing too… in a more ‘up-to-date’ Sledgehammer style of stop motion… they really seem to play off frame rates and make it a meticulously crafted beast, where they even planned to spend the night (while the song goes into “when you’re hiding in the dark, no one’s gonna find ya”). Too cool. **OK Go** just loves to create technically interesting and creative videos (though, for me, their music is hit and miss). ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/15 "2011-06-19T00:44:52Z")
Matt Kresling’s [Seventeen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLwS4SxLwqQ) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/16 "2011-06-19T02:06:13Z")
The Canadian singer named Lights, who I love so very, very much, makes some interesting videos. In the OK Go! vein, [Second Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLRkyGU3cM) was shot in one take. [Ice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU9-TRVbhkE&NR=1) has her kicking her evil side’s ass 😃 [Saviour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PE_00KNCk) is very cool. Incidentally, everything you hear in her songs is _her_. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/17 "2011-06-19T02:12:12Z")
Missed the edit window! Before Lights got signed to her record deal, she made her own videos, designing and building the sets and props herself: [Drive My Soul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6DOaIhD-I&NR=1) and the sequel, [February Air](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypsDt4JNIE). ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/18 "2011-06-19T03:17:48Z")
All of [M ss ng P eces](http://www.mssngpeces.com/)’s videos are pretty great, but I really love their latest for Surfer Hymn. I love love love this video [Apache](http://vimeo.com/22679618) by Danger Beach. Cute animation. The Beastie Boys’ [Fight For Your Right (Revisted)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo&feature=player_embedded) is pretty funny and clocks about a half hour… though I guess it’s not really a music video exactly. Classic [flying dogs and lasers](http://vimeo.com/4182352) by pleix. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/19 "2011-06-19T05:18:58Z")
An oldie but goodie: [The Cars, You Might Think I’m Crazy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yf2WP6K1gQ). AFAIK, the original “visually creative” music video. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940/20 "2011-06-19T05:48:34Z")
Coldplay’s [Strawberry Swing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9X5jMofEo) is pretty amazing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-some-visually-creative-music-videos/585940.md?page=2)