By far, the best video ever made is called Scrape. I’ve only seen it once, and can’t remember the music. But the video is just three minutes of people falling off of their skateboards!
I liked Weird Al Yankovic’s song “Headline News”. That’s a classic parody Music Video, right there.
Wow, I’m really going to love this one. Let me just start making a list here:
- All of the Tool videos- the claymation was very excellent work and definitely adds a creepiness factor.
- Last Dance with Mary Jane- Tom Petty
- High Hopes- Pink Floyd- I only saw just a little bit of this video once but from what I saw, it looked really cool and the song is pretty good.
- Heart’s Filthy Lesson- David Bowie
- I’m Afraid of Americans- David Bowie & Trent Reznor
- All of the Nine Inch Nails videos- I have this thing for Trent, sorry!
- Can’t Speak- Danzig
- almost all of the Marilyn Manson videos- it might sound strange but they’re all pretty good. A little weird maybe, but good.
Duran Duran - Girls on Film, but only the full length version.
(heh heh heh - just kidding - just trying to be risque - it’s not quite working)
My actual favorites (I’m pretty much stuck in the 80s):
Duran Duran - Union of the Snake or New Moon on Monday
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Arcadia - Election Day
Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Aha - Take on Me
That was “Bastards Of Young”. Great video. It’s actually shot indoors, slowly panning back from a speaker in a livingroom. Pretty famous for being the “Anti-video”.
The Replacements were pretty hip like that. Even if they did start making mainstream videos themselves…
Pesonal favs: NIN - Head Like A hole, All the Tool stuff, Tom Petty’s You Got Lucky (I’ll admit it, I emulated the look of that video when I was in High School- trench coats, boots, bandanas- it WAS the 80’s)
And I have to give credit to Joan Jett’s I love Rock n’ Roll for kickstarting me into puberty. I distinctly remember seeing that video for the first time and thinking: WOW. Girls are reaaallly neat…
More recently, I dig the Foo Fighters stuff as well. Anything that breaks the choreographed dancers/ beach party/ pseudo concert cliches is nice.
Speaking of cliche horrible things has anyone seen Creed’s Take Me Higher video?
Jeezus. Could they possibly make a more pretenious/ gimmicky video? Fits the pretenious/ gimmicky nature of the band though I suppose
Wow. A lot of TOOL fans. I’d put them down except that I haven’t seen any videos…except part of one. I’m missing a lot, aren’t I?
Mine faves:
Daydream Believer- Monkees
Ashes to Ashes- David Bowie
Rooster- Alice in Chains
Whiskey in the Jar- Metallica
Three Libras- a Perfect Circle
All i can think of for now. I love reviving old threads. 
Micheal Jackson-Black or White the long version. Lovely filmmaking, beautiful CGI morphing between ‘races’, great dancing, extended anti-bigotry message at the end. I even forgive the appearance of a still-youthful McCauley Caulkin.
I don’t care what people think about his appearance or lifestyle that f**cker has got some great tunes.
I believe that would be “Do You Remember the First Time?” by Pulp. And whc03grady, I believe your video would be “Alex Chilton”.
My favorite music videos are…
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[li]“American Music” by the Violent Femmes. My all-time favorite.[/li][li]Anything directed by Spike Jonze. I love his sense of humor and ability to match action with music.[/li][li]“Late in the Day” by Supergrass[/li][li]“Southern California”, which I believe was performed by Supergrass and directed by Spike Jonze[/li][li]“The Distance” by Cake[/li][li]“Lorraine’s Car” by Cake Like[/li][li]“Lay all your love on me” by Erasure[/li][li]“Seems” by Queen Sarah Saturday[/li][li]“Big Blue Sea” by Lazybone*[/li][li]Anything by Lee Jung Hyun (Korean artist, warped sense of visuals)*[/li][li]“Punk Rock Girl” by The Dead Milkmen[/li][li]“Say You Will” by Gogh Van Go[/li][/ul]
I’m sure there are plenty I’m forgetting. I just love music videos! My favorites tend to be simple videos, not huge production numbers, that are visually interesting. I also like videos with strong elements of absurdity and humor.
*These are avaliable on the net, but might be hard to find if you can’t read Korean…
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Björk / “All Is Full Of Love” directed by Chris Cunnigham (same guy who did Aphex Twins “Come To Daddy” ) with those 2 white robots making love
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Coldcut / “Timber” ,simply amazing,just see for your self : http://www.ninjatune.net/getg2.cgi?catalogue=videos&track=timber (for realplayer)
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Ken Ishii / “Extra” ,cool anime video
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Foo Fighters / “Everlong” ,very weird,as mentioned before
o yeah and Daft Punk have cool videos too
Funny this thread should resurface after so long; the video I listed, Smack My Bitch Up, was recently cited by MTV on a special listing the “20 Most Outrageous MTV Moments”. Apparently, they showed the video only late at night, and only for one week.
I love all KoRn videos but the best was “Make Me Bad”…great song…great video and shots of David Silveria’s chest, nothing could be better. Also, Crazytown “Butterfly”, Creed “with Arms Wide Open” and “Higher”
Bob Dylan, “Jokerman”
“UHF” by Weird Al. What is it about him that lets him be such a chameleon?
“You Might Think” by the Cars.
“She-Bop” by Cyndi Lauper
“Oh Sherry” by whoever the hell it was, because of its embedded satire of over-blown videos
– Bob
Massive Attack - Karma Coma
Sepultura - Rattamahatta
Garbage - Push it
Nine Inch Nails - March of the pigs