Gotta go with “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam, especially since it’s based on a true story. (BTW, I’ve heard rumors that the video’s been re-released in “uncensored” form, showing the gun and everything. Can anyone confirm that?)
KGS–I did see it in an uncensored form on the “Most Violent Videos Countdown” or something like that on MTV (it might’ve been VH1) a few months ago. Yes…there is a gun. Yes…he comes in mostly naked wearing an American flag and then eats the gun.:eek:
IDBB
“Everybody Hurts” - REM
“Don’t Give Up” - Kate Bush / Peter Gabriel
And another vote for “Big Sky”
MTV has a shwo they seem to run about every 3 weeks called “MTV’s most controversial videos”. Includes unedited versions of Jeremy, Smack my Bitch Up, and Justify My Love. Also shows Baby got back, that Metallica video covering an old song that had a porn star in it, and others. They show it late on Saturday nights, mostly.
Reba McEntire did a video (fundraiser for the Salvation Army) during Christmastime a year or two ago. I can’t recall the name. It was beuatiful, though.
“Dancing With Tears in My Eyes” by Ultravox. Thinking about it makes me cry, and I don’t think I’ve even seen it in over 15 years.
Huh, I’ve seen that before, or at least one much like it. Saw SMBU & Justify My Love, but I think they were just clips, not full videos. Didn’t see Jeremy, though. I might not have watched the whole thing.
Okay, I may be showing my sappy side a bit too much here… But does anyone else remember the video to “Hazard” by Richard Marx? Very moving… at least IMHO.
Funny, I was just thinking of this topic after seeing last night for the first time “The Scientist” by Coldplay. If you haven’t seen it, this is a bit of a spoiler, so you may not want to read.
The whole thing is in reverse, with everybody walking backwards, basketballs going through hoops backwards, etc. The singer walks backwards through the video singing the song (which is might damn impressive when you realize he had to memorize the whole song backwards to make the video). For the first half, he’s just walking backwards through a city, then through a forest, and there’s really no sign of anything wrong. Then he walks backwards by a female body on the ground, and gets into a damaged car. The girl flies backwards up into the car, and you realize there’s been a bad accident where she died. Then the car rolls violently up a hill and backwards through a fence back onto the road where it narrowly misses a truck. And the couple drives backwards away from their sad destiny. We look into the car and see they’re laughing, and she removes her seat belt to put her jacket on.
Very moving.
The video that immediately came to my mind is “Just” by Radiohead.
What’s the one where the guy is sitting underneath a bridge singing with a guitar, and the NY skyline is behind him?
Another vote for Collective Soul’s The World I Know. That stupid, manipulative video nearly drove me to tears, dammit.
A second vote for ‘This woman’s Work’ by Kate Bush.
I consider myself sort of a hardass, but that flash video going around the internet just after 9/11 that was edited to Enya’s “Only Time” really hit me hard. I can’t hear that song in the grocery store or something without seeing the consecutive images of the people jumping out of the buildings in my head. ::shudder::
I’m wishing I could see that Johnny Cash video. Attempting that on my POS computer would make it burst into flames though.
The musician is Ryan Adams. I’m not sure, but I thought the song was just called “New York.”
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No kidding! I think of that video too. I don’t listen to Enya, but there is no way I will ever be able to hear that song and not associate it with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A video that I think is moving is Brian McKnight’s “Back At One.” I don’t think there was any reason for it to get much play, but I think it will be a while before it’s run. The video is the one where there was a plane crash and the singer is calling his SO before the plane goes down and telling her goodbye. Too many similarities to 9/11 now. The video came out a couple years before 2001. It’s significant to me though because in the last minutes of my life I would want to contact my family members to tell them goodbye. A couple weeks after I saw the video I was in a bad car accident.
Is this the one? You’re right, that one’s pretty powerful. All those pictures of the people who were on the planes were what got me.
Actually the song Mr. Miskatonic was referring to was Turn the page by Metallica.
This was the video I had in mind when I saw the thread.Very realistic,very gruesome (not in a violent sense of a way).The main characters of the video were a real life prostitute and her little girl.
gallows fodder, I was going to say prison sex as well.
There’s so much to that video. I will never forget when I watched it for the first time.
Did you mean Untitled #1 (aka Vaka) ?
Sigur Ros puts out (IMO) the most moving music in the history of music. Runners up would be Mogwai, Radiohead, and Slowdive . However, Sigur Ros’ video for Untitled #1, as far as a video as a whole (music and imagery) was not 100% up to par. I think a far better canidate for most moving video would be viðrar vel til loftárása off Sigur Ros’ 2nd album ágætis byrjun .
Other videos that have really moved me:
Just by Radiohead
No Rain by Blind Mellon (as sappy as it was)
and unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it The World I Know by Collective Soul
I have yet to see Cash’s version of Hurt or any videos by Slowdive, but I’m sure those would rank as well.
i’ll go with pyramid song by radiohead
the polygon guy diving into a flooded world simply to swim down and sit in an armchair in the living room of a suburban english house and just stay there. i think cathartic is the word im looking for but its also incredibly moving and fits the song perfectly.
both versions of hurts videos, the johnny cash one and the live NIN one where on the backprojection the bird dives in the water at the end ill nominate too.