# Favorite music videos ever **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 1999, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562 "1999-11-24T22:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SunsetLightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SunsetLightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunsetLightning)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/1 "1999-11-24T22:30:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/2 "1999-11-24T22:31:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/3 "1999-11-24T22:39:00Z")
I don’t watch much EMPTY-V these days but that claymation in Tool’s Undertow was great. It just went along with the song so well. ---
**Author:** ![Sake\_Samurai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/4 "1999-11-24T22:40:00Z")
Second the Tool videos. Videos should enhance the experience, not show the band jumping around lipsynching. * * * Hell is Other People. ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/5 "1999-11-24T22:43:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/6 "1999-11-24T22:52:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/7 "1999-11-24T23:42:00Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/8 "1999-11-24T23:50:00Z")
An oldie but goodie… “Big Log” by Robert Plant * * * Mr. K’s Link of the Month: [Punch Bill Gates](http://www.well.com/user/vanya/bill.html) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/9 "1999-11-24T23:52:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SunsetLightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SunsetLightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunsetLightning)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/10 "1999-11-24T23:57:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/11 "1999-11-25T00:59:00Z")
Weird Al: Smells like Nirvana Grover Monster: Wubba Wubba Wubba ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/12 "1999-11-25T01:09:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/13 "1999-11-25T01:21:00Z")
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](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - updates every Wed & Sat ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/14 "1999-11-25T04:50:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![SunsetLightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SunsetLightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunsetLightning)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/15 "1999-11-25T05:40:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/16 "1999-11-25T05:44:00Z")
My favorite is Tom Petty’s “Don’t come 'round here no more”. A really funky, psychodelic Alice In Wonderland homage. And girls in spandex! Can’t lose. inky ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/17 "1999-11-25T06:26:00Z")
I like “Don’t Come Around Here No More” too, Inky, although probably not for _all_ the same reasons… 🙂 I like the videos that tell a story that fits the song. “Cryin’” by Aerosmith is one like that…tho’ I’m sure there are better examples. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/18 "1999-11-25T06:43:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/19 "1999-11-25T06:50:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562/20 "1999-11-25T07:18:00Z")
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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-music-videos-ever/11562.md?page=2)